(S)Parks and Recreation

An amber weather warning put paid to outside activities so instead, GoodGym Bristol ran and walked to Sparks including our newest member Sean, to help Lucy remove decorations from 3 different floors of the cavernous, maze-like building, formerly Marks and Spencer in Broadmead.

We were to shift a pile of wood and paint a wall. Sadly there was not enough paint to do the job, but that was only discovered by me covering my hand in the stuff! (they will have more paint next week?)

After we all speedily shifted the wood, it was time to say goodbye to Christmas (with the exception of 1 decoration that Frances DEMANDED, be left up (Lucy quickly agreed as she saw how Frances drove the bus!) Richard and Sean were the 'tall ones' so the climbed the ladders and folding table, before Vaguely Northern Darren was allowed to pose looking like a cute little fairy on top of the Christmas-tree-removing steps!

Richard and Chloe were excellent stepladder positioners and stability enforcers (that's a thing isn't it?) while Jason kept us amused with his never before heard Christmas cracker jokes!

We left after an hour of cancelling Christmas at Sparks and while the walkers went their seperate ways, the runners ran to Workout... and the bar was shut! So we tried The Old Duke and were rewarded with drinks and live music (it was an open mic night...luckily we left before the pianist started)!