It was fantastic to celebrate International Women's Day with fellow GoodGymers by getting active, spreading the joy and doing a task that had a positive impact in our local area.

We met in a very busy Battersea Park. It was brimming with runners, as though parkrun had finished, there was another massive race taking place. We found a spot to do our warm ups, and each chose an inspirational female athlete who inspire us - they ranged all the way from marathon runners to speed climbers!

The next challenge was crossing the carriageway without getting in the way of the racers. Luckily we timed it to perfection and headed out of the park on the way to the Falcon estate in Battersea.

The sun was shining and everybody had a smile on their face as we arrived to find Senia from the Women of Wandsworth charity with all the tools we needed and instructions on where to plant our bulbs. Unfortunately I had forgotten about the invitation to wear a splash of purple and green as the official colours of IWD, but luckily Catherine had followed the brief with an excellent pair of socks and green hat. We also did manage to find some bright purple bulbs which will be a lasting reminder of our visit.

Despite the hard ground we got the planting done quickly and as we had a few minutes left we did a speedy litter pick and tidy up, even causing some passers by to stop to find out more.

Job done, we walked the short distance to the Waste Not Want Not hub, where Hadas was waiting for us with delicious treats, hot tea and coffee and music. We spent the rest of the morning happily chatting about food, choirs and dragon fruit!

Happy International Women's day to you all - thank you for coming to celebrate and spreading the positivity in our community.

Our job last night was to build a number of desks for a local centre which the community will be able to use. Sounds straightforward? That's what we thought, until we saw the pile of panels and screws...and no instructions.

Luckily there were five of us there to crack the puzzle, including Nick who came along for his first mission - welcome Nick!

We got cracking, building the desks in different rooms. The largest one got done pretty quickly, and then we moved on to the smaller ones, with their special 'modesty' panel. That's where it got slightly more complicated. Luckily Lorna drew on her previous Crystal Maze experience (she didn't get locked in this time though), while Clare put her recent yoga expertise into good practice under the tables screwing in panels, while Nick and I used our Scrubs' knowledge to start assembling ('lefty loosey, righty tighty'). We all struggled with the assembly and after thinking we had finished, realised we had put on both the legs and the table top backwards. Cut to Frances in the next room, who had done two whole desks perfectly on her own. She had definitely already got her Ikea badge.