On a cold night when it would have been easy to stay at home, our hardy GoodGymers joined the equally dedicated volunteers from Discover Welling to take down the stickers thanking sponsors of the Welling Christmas lights.

Braving the rain and sleet we split into a group of runners 🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️ and a group of walkers 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️, heading in opposite directions along the high street peeling off stickers along the way. When we got to the end we crossed over and came back along the other side of the road doing the same.

The combination of running and walking gave us all a good dose of exercise, and we got the job done in double-time, even before our hands went numb in the cold. ❄️❄️

If you'd like extra motivation to get out and get moving during the winter months, come and join us!

What a fun hour helping to run the retro fairground games at the Danson House Christmas Market.

Children and adults alike loved launching the frog to land down the chimney, and rolling the balls to score for prizes.

And we loved being being part of this festive community event, working alongside the other volunteers from Discover Welling, with all proceeds going towards next year's Christmas Sparkle lights in Welling.

What a lovely evening we all had decorating the Welling Christmas tree! 🎄

After meeting up with Julie from Discover Welling, we set to work hanging baubles. It was difficult reaching the higher up branches but our trusty litterpicks came in handy and we somehow managed it. We even had some hand-made GoodGym decorations to hang!

Decorating completed, we gathered around the tree for a spot of impromptu carol singing!

We could have stayed longer but needed to litter pick some rubbish from the area and head to see the Christmas House.

What a fantastic display of lights at the house, including the baby Jesus of course!

Our group tasks over the next two weeks have an equally festive feel. We're joining the local Santa Sleighs in Sidcup (next Wednesday) and Welling (the following Wednesday). Ho, ho, hope to see you there! 🎅

What a lovely treat to be met by Santa as we arrived at our task last night 🎅 !

We were helping Julie and Alex from Discover Welling to take down the lamp post stickers promoting last weekend's Sparkle event and replace them with stickers thanking local organisations that had donated towards funding for the town's Christmas lights.

We got into a great routine:

• Peel off the old.

• Stick up the new.

• Power walk to next lamp post.

• Repeat.

All the while with Santa giving cheery greetings to passers-by.

Great exercise and very satisfying!

And it was lovely to see our logo featured, as a thank you for the help we've given time-wise (rather than pecuniary!).

Another fun task under under belts, and even the GoodGym Bexley name up in lights (well, technically 'on' lights, but close enough!)

Next Wednesday we're indoors, stuffing bags to be given away at the Sidcup Christmas Extravaganza. If you've been wondering about giving GoodGym a go, this is a great task to start with!

"Can you Splat-The-Rat?"

Not something GoodGymers get to say very often but it was part of our repartee as we helped run the fairground games on Discover Welling's stall at the town's Sparkle event.

On the other side of the stand we got to grips with the badge-maker, turning children's colourful drawings into badges and fridge magnets.

All this to the sound of Christmas favourites sung by the live band.

It was lovely to be part of this festive market helping lots of local families and residents enjoy the atmosphere.

After posing for a photo in front of the giant snow globe (we'd have been in it if the queue had been shorter!) we rounded things off with a coffee in a nearby cafe. It was then that we noticed Graham's t-shirt has lost its 'g'. Perhaps the rat stole it!

Well done Team oodgym!

Time to take down the remembrance poppies that we'd put up on lamp posts along Welling high street a few weeks ago.

The plan was to release the cable ties so they can be re-used next year. We each had a go, using screwdrivers to ease the grippy-bit but, despite our best efforts, no-one could master the trick.

So to plan B: cutting the ties instead. Even that was easier said than done - those thick plastic straps were super-tough to cut through! ✂️

GoodGym persistence prevailed and we walked-and-talked our way between lamp posts to get the job done.

With poppies safely stored away we headed home.

Next week's task sees us back in Welling, putting up stickers that thank sponsors of the town's Christmas lights. Why not come along and have some fun with us!