A new year, same favourite task - Babybank is back!

So some of the usual suspects gathered at Wanstead House to welcome the lovelyNavratti for her first ever Goodgym experience.

After and initial chat Navratti, James & Linda set off while I waited a few more minutes to see whether Sher would make it down as well. sadly this wasn't the case so I chased the other three down to the babybank, where Natalie and later Jo made their own way to.

It seemed the Christmas break had put some things out of sequence, the lovely laminated labels to separate the age ranges were nowhere to be found. But luckily host Adam found post-it notes!

As always, the amount of bags waiting seem daunting but once again just under the hour all were sorted and it was time to pack up and put all away in the main room for others to do part 2 of the process.

Thanks all for joining in on quite short notice - next sessions are being planned, details to follow

Three of us assisted at Valentines Parkrun today. James was on scanning, Linda VI walker and Ed on Car Park duty.

Valentines is busier now due to Alphabeteers collecting their Vs now Victoria Dock has closed due to lack of vounteers. This illustrates the need for people to volunteer if we are to keep our parkruns going.

Peter got there early but was feeling under the weather, went home to recover. That left us with 3 goodgymers going for a litter pick. Krish who was a 1st timer for goodgym joined us regular lot in tracking down litter. Our route took us down to Wanstead Leisure centre which was quite well kept although we did find a basket which Linda put to good use. we wandered further down where we found a bush which had a truck full of litter, annoyingly most was unaccessible so we moved on to under Redbridge roundabout where we saw somone had flicked a load of red paint across some of the flats, under the roundabout near the bike and footpath we found the paint in a black bag, as our bags were pretty full we moved on, heading up to The George & the Dragon pub, we dumped and reported our 3 full bags of rubbish to the council, made our way back to our HQ and called it a night. Well done all.