Manuela and JP went to Mrs H’s house to help with some weeding in the back garden. We did a thorough job on the garden path and had time for a bit of shrub pruning and bramble clearing. Mrs H was super pleased and grateful as always, rewarding our efforts with tea and biscuits 😀

A good session at the St Simon’s Church branch of H&F Foodbank, where Carine and JP helped out with - Setting up tables and chairs - Unloading food crates from the van - Organising food stock in the church's packing room

Everything was organised in time for the arrival of the food bank clients, and the whole team was very happy!

Monday night and all the roads lead to ...The Purple Elephant Project. Runners, walkers and cyclists chased to sun through the streets of Richmond to meet Maggie at the the project. Task was planting bulbs and putting together some furniture. As the runners zoomed and reached the location early, Maggie welcomed them inside as said that we would focus on the furniture as it was darker than she anticipated outside for the bulb planting. As Goodgymers don't go undeafeated, we said we will get our head torches out when the full team has arrived to get the bulbs planted and have zero losses.

Four boxes were waiting for the Knights. The whole team was in place and we teamed up on unpacking and building the various furniture. Some of us felt strong and brought the older furniture down and out of the building. We had a whole symphony of sounds during the building of the furniture : screw-diculous sounds!! Instruction-page sighting due to missing parts or was it with the other team? Allen-key scraping, clanking screws and wood tapping.

Some parts took longer to build, but then some Goodgymers disappeared outside with their head torches to plant the bulbs that Maggie had for us. Mission accomplished in the dark like proper ninjas.

The brave furniture knights conquered the Flat Box Kingdom .