Who'd've thought wed have such a dry evening after torrential rain through the day?

The master plan of re-turfing (well, patchwork grassing) the damage recently caused at Brunswick Cemetery was looking doubtful but we were soon re-purposing the grass growing where it shouldn't to the bare soil where it should be growing. All a bit mucky, and trying to leave the battered shrubs to fill the gaps, there was plenty of hamstring and quad work to bend and straighten before re-laying the grass, beautifully lit by fellow GoodGymmers.

With may-a-strange look from passersby, a few did stop and chat, amazed at the idea of re-use.

Having avoided any rain at all, we packed up and, quitting while we were ahead, running and walking back to Workout before heading to Pieminister for the beat pies on a rainy gloomy day and more lovely chat - making our own sunshine.

What a great Group Run/Walk to welcome three lively new GoodGymmers, back at one of our favourite tasks - and INDOORS!

We were chock-a-block at Workout to meet Nachiket, Tanmay and Joseph for their first GoodGym experience - we hope it's the first of many.

Runners strode of and the walkers were hot on their heels, joined by Richard B "fresh" from their Arc of Attrition exploits at the weekend through horrendous weather. It made for much chat through Castle Park. So much so that we forgot to turn left and walked a longer way to Emmaus than ever before... Well, it is the January Challenge :-)

Xanne was waiting for us and we were in the warehouse of joy for the first time in a while. its all change with the mezzanine being cleared for a fantastic project with St Mungo's running apprenticeships.

Weird and wonderful jobs including boxing and shelving unsorted donations in a tidy semi-organised ways, constructing beds to work out which pieces were missing, clothes "tat or treasure" and carpet tile piling that was more skilled than it looked.

We were busy bees as Xanne knows us of old and is the only task beneficiary that has a back-up list of tasks to keep us going when we've been so efficient to clear part one!

As ever, there were treasures to be discovered, old racist/sexist newspapers, figurines of old naked people cavorting, an evil clown-y figurine and Kingsley bagged himself a keyboard stand, as you do.

We were soon off sgain, many of us to Franco Manca to trade our kilometre Strava pizzas for real pizzas - fantastic Tuesday, everyone!

Runners and Walkers assembled for this evening's mission, talking about all of the exciting things we might sort out today.

The experienced amongst us passing on our wisdom about never picking a tent up as they're too much of a pole-aver (thanks Emma for the pun).

The runners voted 4-0 for the most direct route given the conditions and on arrival were greeted by welcoming staff, with welcoming drinks and biscuits!

Instead of the usual piles of assorted items, the plan was... tents!

The walkers soon joined us and tents, large and small, were pitched, examined and put away, despite every tent bag shrinking which made it trickier to put them back in again!

Ousmane was the star tent-packer-upper, taking only between 1-3 tries to get it in the bag with an occasional roly-poly from Vaguely Northern Darren to flatten the larger tents!

Once finished we headed back to Workout for the good deed debrief and decided that maybe tent-checking is not as bad as we thought.

A few Goodgym Member members came online to do yoga.

Yoga talk

One reason you should be doing yoga is that it Reduces Inflammation • Research shows that yoga’s combination of movement, breathing, and relaxation can decrease chronic inflammation markers in the body. This helps balance the natural healing process without aggravating an injured area.