The beautiful sunset over Trafalgar Square was the backdrop for our GoodGym session last night. We just had time to soak it up before the Rhythms of Life crew turned up and we were put to straight to work!

It was great to see GoodGymer Clare bring along the Six Senses team for their first session - brilliant to have you join us! Also lovely to have Kisanet from Westminster and Susan from Richmond with us, especially as with 50 guests waiting to be served dinner it was all hands on deck!

We all took our station, serving hot soup, fruit, sandwiches and savoury goods, bread, hot drinks and crisps. Soon the queue was moving and the guests were enjoying the selection. Rhythms of Life is an amazing charity which provides vital food and other resources to rough sleepers in central London. We will be helping them out regularly with this task, which makes a real impact in the community.

Next week we really need help with a session sorting donations at a centre for refugees - at the moment there is only one person signed up so if you can make it then you'd be really making a difference! You can find out the details and sign up here. Hope to see you there!

Thanks for all your help last night everybody, with so many people served hot food, it was an evening well spent.

Gosia helped Ms G with weekly grocery shopping from Lidl today 🛒. The weather was a mixture of everything - from rain 🌂, sun 🕶, wind 🌬 and double rainbows 🌈.

I knocked at her door around 11 am, Ms G welcomed me very warmly, gave me a trolley, shopping list and a cash. She gave me a bit of time to go through the list and make sure all is clear (it was a long list!).

I managed to find everything from the list and the trolley was completely packed, I'm glad I had it as would struggle to carry it all otherwise. I was back at Ms G's door after around 60 min.

Kudos to the GGers who turned up on a very drizzly evening to make a real difference on the South Bank! It's definitely not easy to leave the warmth, grab a litter picker and battle the growing wind to collect litter, but that's exactly what a group of GGers did last night. It was especially lovely to welcome Kisanet to her first ever group session - we loved having you join us!

We met underneath the London Eye, where the conditions weren't too bad. So we began our tour of the area, collecting bottles, packets and the dreaded cig butts as we went.

Despite the growing gusts and transporting the increasingly heavy bags the time flew by, helped along by our wide ranging conversation - we covered everything from squirrels and vitamin supplements to feminism and the joys of hand sanitiser!

Before long we were racing after bottles rolling in the wind and struggling to keep our bin bags open so we called it a day. Great job everybody. I believe that as well as the inherent good of less rubbish on the street, litter picking also encourages others to take pride in their city and hopefully has a knock on effect!

Next Tuesday we have another really rewarding task handing out food and sorting donations for rough sleepers. I'd love to see you there!

Mrs G's last shop demonstrated her expert ability to plan her list to a budget and whilst this week she initially apologised for a slightly longer list with a few minor tweaks, she hoped that the £30 would be enough.

Lidl was unusually busy with the long queue to pay stretching beyond the freezer section (...), but the shelves had everything that Mrs G wanted, including the spray can of cream (next to the milk...thank you to the kind assistant who pointed me in the right direction for this).

Armed with a mighty collection of reusable bags and once I'd made it to a cash checkout, I soon had everything scanned and bagged and was delighted to discover that Mrs G had done it yet again with her budgeting - the 58p above could be classed as a rounding error!

After her first GG shop last week, Mrs G was well prepared for this week's visit with a slightly longer list. It was my first return visit to the newly revamped (and definitely much improved) Lidl, and whilst it took me a while to get my aisle bearings, I soon had the trolley basket full - as usual there was a queue, but even this seemed to be a little less chaotic than before.

Mrs G had armed me with several reusable bags, and I was surprised that I managed to get everything into two bags and my backpack without breaking the eggs...even more impressive was Mrs G's budgeting in that she came in at 85p below £30, which I could only commend her on when I got to her door. Overall a perfectly planned expedition.

It amused me greatly that Mr I asked me to get him 48 x 500ml bottles of water from the Aldi at Little Venice.

Thankfully neither a gondola nor wellington boots were required, and Mr I had a seemingly sturdy (and waterproof...) trolley into which at least 3 of the 4 packs fitted.