Come on baby, do the local-emulsion with me

22 Goodgymers helped their local community in Norwich
Alex Wallace
Bobby B
Bill Edmonds
Calum Harris
Catherine D
Darren Watkins
Karen Rowley
Katy
Elizabeth H
Melanie
Neil Stevens
Rosie
Sarah
Tim
Lucy Webb
Steven Hitcham
Sarah Emerson
Tom King
Michelle Eves
Jack Southgate
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Norwich

Monday 19th February 2018

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Usually it rains until about 5pm on a Monday but tonight it was raining until literally 6.30pm when we left The Forum but it was technically dry for the whole run.

Tonight we were visiting The Hamlet Charity on St Leonard's Road, which for those of you that don't know... is at the top of Gas Hill! We visited them in January to paint the communal room we were doing a 2nd coat of paint tonight.

We had 3 fantastic new runners this evening with Sarah, Neil & Jack. I promise we don't run up Gas Hill every week so don't let that put you off coming back.

Congratulations to those who did the Valentine's 10k on Sunday and Tim who was attending his 20th GoodGym good deed.

As per Catherine's request we did a little warm-up inside and then headed to the task, via the quaint Cathedral Close... and no I didn't lead the group to a dead end this time haha.

Claire met us at the task and explained a little bit about what The Hamlet Charity is and what they do and then the large group of GoodGym-ers got ready to paint and do some general cleaning.

A photographer then arrived from The Eastern Daily Press as they will be doing an article on us that should be published on Wednesday.

I then had to deal with the Emulsion Scars that Sarah left me.

You've got paint in your beard Steven.

No Sarah that's my grey hairs coming through!

Just for men is on the next shopping list haha.

After finishing painting and our photographs being taken, we got ready to head back. Now Calum aka Norfolk's finest Scottish/Canadian baker, had mentioned on the WhatsApp group that he'd made some chocolate brownies for us all... #myhero but this meant I needed to build up everyones appetite. So... we had a longer route back via a certain hill in Norwich!

Judging by everyone's verdict, the longer run back was definitely worth the brownie, they were delicious and moist plus I couldn't taste the nuts.

Next week we have one of our longer runs when we visit the Sprowston Grow Your Community.


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Norwich-based charity, which enriches the lives of children and young adults with disabilities and complex health needs. Also has an Adults and Childrens centre in Norwich

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Bill Edmonds

Tue 20th Feb 2018 at 8:47am

Thanks for a great group run everyone and thanks Callum for the lovely brownies.

Katy

Tue 20th Feb 2018 at 9:53am

Bill!!! It's Calum not Callum! Or maybe it's Callllllum!

Elizabeth H

Tue 20th Feb 2018 at 12:26pm

Great group run, the long run back was definitely worth it with the thought of Calum’s home made brownies #scrummy

Robert Organ

Tue 20th Feb 2018 at 1:51pm

Great pun!! I'm gutted I missed out on the brownies and I'm looking forward to reading the article in the EDP tomorrow

York runner

Tue 20th Feb 2018 at 9:18pm

Love this pun!!!

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