After arriving slightly early to discuss a good meeting point and whether the parking restrictions on First Ave had changed in the last 6 years, Fay and I headed over to meet Laurie and help carry the huge stack of leaflets back.

We greeted Jane, Andy and Martin and said cheerio to Fay as she left to drive the leaflets over. The rest of us had a steady pace over to Melbourne, during which I led not just the run but a good old moaning session about how hectic life is! Thankfully, Laurie and Jane agreed and were happy to join in, while Martin and Andy luckily escaped with their own conversation!

We met Fay and proceeded to deliver all the leaflets while only getting slightly confused about which roads we had already walked down and all commenting that we had never seen so many cats in one area!

Martin and Fay bid us farewell, while the remaining 4 delivered the last few leaflets on the way home. Thanks everyone!

Jen

This was a nice leisurely community mission to do over your own time. Bonus points to Sallyann for going to the originally planned little library, Jen for her wonderful assistants, and Jane for managing not to return home with 8746 extra books!

Don't forget its the National Year of Reading and any attempts to increase the amount of enjoyment people get from reading should be commended!

Might list a few more of these type of missions too.

8 GoodGymers went to Hearing Help Essex to give their garden a tidy while the builders are in doing renovation works. It was great to see Ram back, joining us for his second group run.

After a chatty run, we met Sallyann there, and were about to get stuck in when we realised we didn't have the code to the key safe. Luckily Rich found the email with the code so we didn't have to break in.

Martin and Ben got the tools out, Sallyann got stuck in clearing the path, and Joel took all the weeds round to the compost bins.

While we worked, Andy told us he was looking forward to the Clacton airshow; hopefully it won't be cancelled due to thunderstorms, but if it is, maybe he'll do the run leader training instead 🙂

This week we had a social after the task, so for once we didn't run back to HQ, but ran to Brewhouse instead, where we met Fay. We arrived just as their quiz night was starting, and (after much debate about rivers and county boundaries) came a creditable 5th out of 20.

Well done everyone 💪 Next week we are delivering charity leaflets around Melbourne.

PS Ram gets a Social Media credit for showing group admin Rich how to add his name to the WhatsApp group 🤦‍♀️