We were on for a spot of decorating tonight in Waltham Forest with the first of three visits to the marvellous Greenleaf Road Baptist Church. If you don't know this place, it is one of those terrific community hubs where there is always something going on. Our grafting tonight was accompanied by a local choir group belting out songs by The Killers among other contemporary artists.

We were met on site tonight by Dan, the dapper, modernising and hard-working church minister who had set up our task perfectly with plenty of equipment, dust sheets and even tea and biscuits. Nice one!

The room we were painting had seen better days and needed a spruce up. Mind you it has a lovely parquet floor, so we took care was before sploshing on the lovely bright white emulsion. Our paint replaced the existing colour scheme, which was eloquently described by one volunteer, Rachel, as dead salmon pink. As always the team toiled away cheerfully making excellent progress with sugar soap and paint.

Following our duties, we headed out into a chilly night for some hill reps and thanks to Raymond and Sajid, we soon found a suitably steep street for our excursions. It wasn't long until hearts were racing, blood was pumping and all thoughts of the chilly weather had abated.

From there was headed back through the streets and into Mirth, Marvel and Maud to toast the fantastic news that long term GoodGymer, Pippa had recently got engaged to her partner and fellow Cross FIt enthusiast, Craig. Fantastic news, congratulations to both of you guys💍🎊

If you missed out on this excellent task this week, never fear because we are doing the whole thing again next week. Sign-up here to be part of something wonderful.

Also, don't forget about the unofficial GG 10th Birthday Party next Friday. This will be taking the place of our monthly social and you can sign-up to that here

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