A big welcome BACK to Toni who has changed her job and got a puppy (amongst other things) since we last saw her.

Tonight's mission was to build some shelves for SPARK. We'd been warned that it might be like a giant meccano but with Dave's engineering brain and Jo's flat pack experience we managed to put together a total of 7 (I think!) sets of shelves.

Those who didn't want to build were able to sand and varnish some tables.

If we'd been playing innuendo bingo, we'd have got a full house for sure.... screws, holes, flaps all got various amounts of airtime. This is the real reason that GoodGym is for adults only 🤣

We packed up feeling like we'd made a good effort (& all without ruining the brand new carpet) and then Judy became Artistic Director and got us to make our logo. Larry the dog was either entertained or totally confused... much like us!

We've already had this lovely message from Becki:

Thank you so much for fun, laughter and your kindness xxx awesome group

Congratulations to Aoife on her 100th Good Deed today! She donned the wings for the duration of our tree planting today.

We learnt several new bits of tree-planting lingo, including slotting and heeling, and overall contributed about 15 trees as part of the fruit tree hedge.

We should have kept a running tally of the number of tree planting innuendos that came up today - it probably would have been a record breaking task with all the deep holes and girth-related queries.

Southsea parkrun teamed up with the Food Bank at St Mag's for one of our city's contributions to the Food Bank Run scheme. Thanks to those who turned up and donated, the stocks were looking epically replenished at the end of the run!