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43 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
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Bristol

Tuesday 2nd July 2019

Report written by Shona Buchanan

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43 GoodGymers gathered for our monthly visit to help Felix Road Adventure Playground tonight. It was great to have Caroline and Phoebe join us for the first time, and also lovely to see that we hadn't scared GoodJim off as he joined us for his second time.

Are you a parking ticket? 'Cos you've got fine written all over you

(Thanks for your top chat-up lines Alice) We got warmed up with a game of 'Squat if you...' (technical term) while a Parking Attendant watched over us. We quickly headed off so as not to get booked and jaunted along the Bristol Bath Cycle Path to the task.

While I mastered our groups, everyone else took part in the Mexican Squat Wave (are your legs tired yet?). Then we split into teams to cover the list of tasks which they needed help with.

  • The staple removers continued the slow but satisfying job while perfecting their knowledge of which tool worked on each individual staple and nail type so that the Adventure Playground can paint the inside of the centre
  • The waterers scattered buckets and hoses all the way round the playground to help the dry grass and the strawberries after our recent hot days
  • The litter-pickers got to work on the ever-requested job of the playground and spread themselves around the large area to clear up two bags of rubbish
  • The heavies got to work playing pallet tetris to get the pallets in a safer and more condensed position and removed four buckets of rubble and nails from the area.

In between all of this, the group still had time to practice their hula-hooping, do some laps of the velo-swing and send an teddy bear on a BMXing adventure.

Half an hour later, we hopped it back to Queen Square where we took part in my SUPER FUN fitness session for the night of partner jump overs and crawl unders. I have now been informed that it is, in fact, just fun.

Centurifun

Behind the scenes and to my ignorance, the wonderful group had been working up lots of surprises for my 100th Good Deed. After donning the Centurion outfit we were presented with Richard's latest addition to the Centurion outfit Hornycorn (or latterly, Horny Shona). Alice had then crafted a congo which we did much to the bemusement of people gathered in Queen Square for an evening of peace.

After all of this, we headed to Turtle Bay for this month's Eats and Claire's delicious cake. Thank you to Clo for organising!

Now all that was left to be asked was...

Did anyone order a ginger beer?


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Felix Road Adventure Playground is a unique space dedicated to children's play, family time and community togetherness. Located in Easton this is free safe space for people to come together in their community

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Attendees
Christopher Lewis
Caroline
Danica Priest
Lisa Elliott
Sophie Chilcott
Richard Breakspear
Alice Whale
Shona Buchanan
Mair Smith
Alice Dalrymple
Felicity
Jenny Chak
Liam Scott
Kait Kirwan
Nick Hill
VaguelyNorthernDarren
Zdeni Cervena
Russ Cahill
Lee Jones
Phill Stone
Nia Evans
Chris Palmer
Caroline Penny
Roz Glover
Katie Kelly
Lia Herbert
Sarah Taylor
Nick Valentine
Valè Pico
Dhanesh Patel
Jim Benson
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Hayley
James Hancock
Phoebe Smith
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Alice Dalrymple

Thu 4th Jul 2019 at 9:59am

Excellent run report :-)