It was a big group of 15 wonderful GoodGymers heading out on the short run to St Christopher's Hospice Shop.

As always at clothes sorting tasks we found a variety of items including: - a medal (congrats on your achievement Jacqueline) - pink sunglasses (modeled by Marta) - a pillow that was also a speaker - handcuffs! - shower curtains - a single shoe

Amongst all those items we also sorted the clothes into piles of mens jackets, shirts, trousers etc and then the same for womens.

It will go down in history as the quickest group run task ever but it made a huge difference to the team at St Christopher's. It would have taken them hours to sort all those clothes.

TTFL

After our 4min run there, 20min sorting clothes and 4min run back, we tackled the time trial with a difference = Time Trial Fartlek. We used the same route as the time trial but instead of pushing our pace the whole way around, we pushed hard on one side and then slowed our pace until we reached the next side of the square. Excellent work everyone!!

pun borrowed from Marta's Strava!

It was time to head up and over the hill(s) to Seniors for an indoor task cleaning the windows, the cafe table and chairs and the children's toys.

Everyone got stuck into the various tasks and we even had quality control on the windows with Jacqueline giving them the once over and cleaning any missing bits!

There was a smaller group at Glass Mill that felt like it doubled in size when we got to Seniors and then even smaller group by the time we got back to Glass Mill - we had the numbers where it mattered and that was the most important!

The ladies and gentlemen at Seniors will be very grateful for our efforts, especially when the sunshine is streaming through the windows this morning! Hopefully not highlighting any streaks...

We haven't been to The PNK Garden for a couple of months so it was exciting to be revisiting and see what they've been up to. It's a longer run to this task and bordering on our neighbours in Southwark - it was great teamwork to make sure everyone got there and back in one piece.

There were multiple tasks to tackle in the garden: - clearing the leaves and removing any litter - shoveling the stones into smaller bags that will them easier to move - ripping the material off divan beds, the frames will then be used for planters - collecting pallets from the surrounding streets

The missing pallets have now reappeared - if anyone would like to help bring them to the garden, let me know and I'll check when Lara will be at the garden.

After a busy 40min it was time for us to say our goodbyes and head off on the journey home to Glass Mill

It was another week of double tasks which means we can help more wonderful organisations in our borough - it's fantastic that there was enough of us to tackle both tasks!

One of our tasks was to continue the painting and sanding at Enable Warm Hub, soon this will be a cosy welcoming space. Don't forget there's community missions there everyday this week in case you have a spare hour and fancy continuing the painting.

Our other task for the evening was to head over the The Albany to tackle the weeds in the vegetable patch but there was the usual confusion of what is a weed and what is a plant that may grow back in the spring/summer. We managed to identify sage, mint and lemonbalm and removed some of the surrounding weeds along with a lot of litter!

The second group at The Albany tackled the litter in the garden which always has a lot of litter that blows in from the surrounding streets. We also had a visit from a friendly neighbourhood fox!

Next week is a slightly longer run to PNK Garden, we'll aim to set off promptly so we can maximise the time spent at the task.

We haven't had a double task week in a long time but 2 tasks needed our help urgently so there was only 1 thing for it and that was splitting the group by one third and two thirds! I took the smaller group over to Catford and Oli took the other group a short hop skip and a jump over to Lewisham Shopping Centre.

The task at Lewisham Unity was our postponed task from the snow and ice last year and we needed to clear all the leaves to give the gardening project the best start.

The task at Lewisham Shopping Centre was to paint and clean ready for it to open as a warm space.

It turned out that neither tasks were very warm but everyone put so much effort in to get the tasks done, it was amazing we got so much done in an hour!!

Next week we are heading to The Albany for a litter pick and weeding in the garden.