Another prepared more than 140 meals, 140 desserts, and drinks today for a Christmas lunch. The atmosphere was full of love, joy, and happiness as we spent this special time with the elderly residents at Futures House 🎄❤️.

It was a beautiful day, and we enjoyed it very much. Abdulrahman

The team assembled early to decorate the hall, lay the tables and help cook Christmas Dinner. When the guests arrived they were then even busier making sure people had drinks and serving the food for the three course meal. As the entertainment started they made sure the tables were cleared and and the washing up was done. And finally, as the last guest left, they packed up the hall, took down the decorations and took all the rubbish out to the dust bins. it was a long day day and our hard work was really appreciated by the guests and organisers. Well done team.

We had a large team of GoodGymers out on Friday evening for a mammoth vegetable pealing task. When we arrived at Hockwell Community Centre there were sacks of potatoes, large next of sprouts, huge bags of parsnips, carrots and a lot of leeks. And so our task began. We donned our festive hats, and Gill soon had some festive tunes playing through her speaker.

Lots of us got stuck into the carrots and parsnips, while Danny and Mohammed were tasked with a large bag of sprouts. But these were the tiniest of sprouts and they soon tired of this fiddly task, and joined the rest of the team, rooting out the root vegetables. Gill provided some well desrved chocolates and it was great to wish Zainab a happy birthday - what a way to spend your birthday prepping veg for 120 people!

It didn't take us too long, but Vera, the task owner was clearly worried that the sprouts wouldn't get done, and Gill suddenly burst into song to get Danny back on the task, "Oh Danny boy, the sprouts, the sprouts are calling, From over there, please do them and don't hide!". Danny thought this was very amusing to have a song named after him, as he hadn't heard this classic before. And fortunately it was enough to get him re-started on the sprout marathon, and we all joined in to ensure we got them all "crossed off" the list.

Three Goodgymers helped out at Luton Wardown parkrun this week, contributing a full 50% of the set up crew (if we don't count our canine conmpanion). On a frosty morning some of us dressed for the conditions and one of us very much did not...

All done with super efficiency, setting the scene for a great run by over 270 parkrunners. Back again next month!

A big shout out to all goodgymers present today to show support at the cafe.

As usual, it went on so well working alongside Sundon Park Baptist Church volunteers. Special guests Christmas song rendition was performed by little angels from BusyBees Nursery who also gave all participants a chocolate Christmas present 🎁

This week group run saw a fab team of four runners heading out to the 61 Football Club where a deep clean of the changing rooms awaited us.

It's been a muddy few weekends out on the pitch recently so the changing rooms had got in quite a state. We set about giving the away side's room a good scrub down, getting the streaks of mud off the walls and floors. We also gave the shower a deep scrub and all the floors a good mopping.

Cliff issued us with cups of strong squash and cookies to fuel our return journey back into town!