We met outside our old stomping ground Hyde Park Book Club. Tom Damu Katie were already there and Carol and Rob were fashionably late by a few minutes.

We set off for a a short 1km run straight to St. Michael's Road to distribute Rainbow Junktion Food collection leaflets to promote extra food donations. Just as we arrived to start the distributing the heavens decided to open almost causing a few issues with potentially soggy leaflets! Luckily, Katie had remembered we had plastic pockets for them. Hurray!

Tom and Adam split off to do the side streets and Rob, Katie and myself grouped together. After a bit of navigation troubleshooting with guessing which streets the guys might have done we ended up finding each other at a cross roads and luckily we didn't seem to duplicate any streets (we think)!

It was rather slippy and slidy out with all the wet leaves and pretty steep stairs leading to the houses which made it a little more challenging... Luckily no slips and trips however some of the public didn't get away that easy out on the streets tonight with maintaining their balance!!

We all came together to deliver the last batch of leaflets on the way back to HPBC. Tom had the idea of the electronic version of leafletting tasks.. By sending emails instead! 💡😜 Might be one to mention to Gemma! Mind you I am not sure we could call ourselves a run club at that stage!

We all agreed we didn't like the range of different letterboxes out there but all agreed it was good to be out running again!

All leaflets delivered! Mission complete.

6 sturdy Good Gymers donned rubber gloves and tackled The Rainbow Junktion Cafe’s mission of deep cleaning and reorganising their kitchen. The team tackled the task in shifts and worked alongside volunteers and management of the cafe. The Rainbow Junktion team made us welcome, gave us tasks to do and offers of tea, coffee and flapjack.

The First shift started at 9.30 working Aron and George tackled started on the immense job of cleaning the kitchen, Helen and Jenny unpacked, sorted and cleaned all the cutlery. Helen was surprised by some super sized onions.

“We used vinegar as our main cleaning fluid which got some of us dreaming of chips “

The second shift started at 11.00. George and Aron carried on with their tasks George cleaning the big hood over the cooking range until it shone and Aron wiping walls and surfaces until clean and shiny. Liz took on the challenge of cleaning cupboard shelves and revealing the whiteness that had been buried under labels and grime. Phil meanwhile cleaned the kitchen windows, the cafes windows, the entrance windows........ every window infact.

“Liz asked her husband Phil if he knew he’d married a scrubber”

The 11.00 team left at 1.00 just a new set of volunteers arrived and they carried on the great work the Good Gym team started.