Well didn't Shrove Tuesday crepe up on us. We had a small but mighty group of GoodGymers who came with us for an evening of Good Deeds. Between us, we group were split between East Bristol Foodbank and The Southville Centre. It was great to have a very tanned Matt join us following his return from his Costa Rican adventure.

Alice D led a running group and Mel led a walking group to the Southville Centre to continue the painting job we started last week. Hugh from BS3 Community had two jobs for us to do and so the group were split between doing some furniture upcycling and railing painting. Thirty minutes later and the group were ready to go and back Queen Square, where they got some more running in with some paced Queen Square laps before finishing.

Meanwhile, Alice W back-marked the rest of us in going to East Bristol Foodbank for a big donation-sort following their supermarket collection last week. There were 70 crates of donations waiting to be sorted, and with all hands on deck, this GoodGym crew got through more than three quarters of them. We have supermarket shelf stacking careers waiting for us. Tim enlightened us with the fact we all didn't realise that we wanted to know, that 99.6% of people in the UK ate something out of a can last year. This left us a whole run back to ponder what our favourite canned item we ate last year was and what that 0.4% ate with no baked beans. Riveting thoughts, let me tell you.

After all that, we headed back to Queen Square, had a quick hopping race and went to catch-up on those pancakes. See you on the flip side.

With Ciara and Dennis mainly deciding to stay home tonight, it gave the hardcore GoodGymers a chance to get out for Tuesday Group Run with only some gusts and a bit of hail to contend with. It was great to have Ellie, Darius and Julia join us for the first time - welcome! It was an extra special day for GoodGym as it was UK Pun Day - surely this is the equivalent of an important national holiday for GoodGym?

Turning the tables

Liam was leading the Warehouse Shifters to Emmaus, where they were helping Xanne on our regular slot in their big donations warehouse. As we had been told that they were going to be leafleting for the night, it was a lucky escape into the warmth and dryness of the indoors! The team were tasked with a massive game of Furniture Tetris (or clearing all of furniture donations into ordered areas with enough aisles and room for movement around them). A lot of shifting, lifting and 'To me, to you'-ing later and the warehouse was in a much better order than before.

Up above the streets of Bristol, leafleting in the night, GoodGym fills your letterboxes, with stuff you'll like - come and run the Children's Hospice Rainbow (Run)

The rest of us headed to Clifton to continue leafleting for The Children's Hospice South West's Rainbow Run. Luckily the hills were not to punful, and soon we were up and punning and ready to go. We split into four teams to cover the area. Between them, they distributed 500 leaflets in less than 25 minutes. Paul B was there so I think he was sharing his secret leafleting skills with the group. The first group back celebrated with the underrated biscuit classic which is The Party Ring. We headed back to centre with the added entertainment of watching trailer-gait and Darren entertained/confused most of us who were vaguely young with a rendition of the Rainbow theme tune with the impressive GoodGym-based lyrics. Luckily the power of Google has refreshed our memories and we kind of know what he was going on about.

Finally, our bunch of pundits got inside and paired up with their well-earned GoodGym pint/beverage/hot shower/dry clothes. Happy Pun Day one and all!

It was a chilly one for us tonight but it didn't stop the droves of GoodGymers once again coming out to do as much good as they could on this January eve. It was great to have Naomi and Ashleigh join us for the first time tonight - we hope to see you again soon!

We tried to master our brain and body warm-up again with different moves for each number... slightly better than last week, still a lot of brain warming up required. Once we were warm, we split into two groups. Alice was leading a smaller group to The Matthew Tree Project. We did our main session of helping them earlier in the month, but as they still have loads of donations to sort through following the generosity of people in the run up to Christmas, they asked if the group could come back for another session. Off down the cycle path they went, and they had a jolly half an hour of sorting as many tins as they could, much to Amy from TMTP's delight.

Abs-olutely amazing

The rest of the group headed to St Paul's Adventure Playground, where we met Guy, Rachel and 6-month old Rosa, who introduced us to the evening's tasks. There was leaf sweeping and litter-picking to be done, so the group were armed with brushes and litter-pickers and got to work making it clear for the local children again, getting an ab workout at the same time with their brooming. Another group were tasked with moving wood chip from one location to make a soft landing for the new rope swing. And a final group were screwdriver-ing between the planks on the play structure to remove leaves and make it stronger and last longer. It's no visit to a playground without a cheeky play, so we set off on a GoodGym chain down the steepest slide in the world (or maybe the steepest in St Paul's, Bristol...)

Once we were back in Queen Square, there was time for tonight's fitness session. Although some people may have played an alcohol-based game to Roxanne before, it was time for something much more fun. Once the group were sick of the name Roxanne and could burpee no more, we stretched off, before celebrating Julie's achievement of reaching 100 Good Deeds last week with the now-traditional Centurion Gallop. Well done Julie! We got to celebrate with some delicious flapjacks and brownies from Julie, then head on our way.