Tuesday 4th November
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Report written by Melanie Young (she/her)
A second visit to Sparks after our preliminary Massage Moving on Monday night, this time moving a clothing concession upstairs (going online) to create the space for the massage concession to move into - a veritable feast of weird and wonderful clothing items and props all needing to be boxed or bagged up and shifted up two floors - fortunately with the help of a lift.
John had let us in, Pavel (PJ) was helping to show us what and where whilst eating his dinner of a tub of Cadbury ice-cream and sharing a bar of chocolate with various GoodGymmers.
It was a pretty standard "make it up as we go along, who knows what we'll find" task for Kingsley and George's first ever GG task - we hope the mystery has created a great impression and you'll be back with us soon!
Many single shoes were found and moved upstairs before a suspiciously similar set of single shoes were found - that's art for you.
Displayed t-shirts were unhooked by the use of Melanie's crutch, boxes and bags were found, emptied of literal rubbish and stuffed with probably-not-rubbish and moved upstairs using a sack trolley, a flat-bed trolley and a shopping trolley - we were totally trollied! Clothes on rails with wheels were easy movers, other haphazard shapes requiring a much more skilled transportation and many items slid where possible as we weren't sure they withstand a GoodGym energetic carry.
I'm not sure anyone tracked the number of steps involved - it will have been a lot, but we met Lauren and Ben who were involved in the Massage concession - Lauren being the masseur and Ben being the helper - who have said they'd love to see GGers in store where they'll be offering back, neck and shoulder massages as well as other treatments, now further away from the big glass doors - much improved privacy!
With Pavel shoving the final items into the second floor space, we were soon heading back out of the now cleared space, and back to Workout, off home or off to November Eats at the excellent Pieminister - it's officially Pie Season, thanks to Richard B. And happy birthday to Roddy for his big 50 on Saturday - his six pack looking good on it in the lift.
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