This morning three of us met at High Town Baptist Church to finish the deep clean that Gill started last week. Omar and Nuriya joined her and got stuck in. In fact fact I thought Omar might get stuck in the the space behind to oven as he cleaned behind it. After 2 hours of scrubbing, washing, sweeping and tidying the kitchen was sparkling.

This week 5 of our sweetest GoodGymers took an empty sweet or biscuit tub to be recycled. And don't worry. Yes we do good and get fit, so this doesn't include eating a whole tub of chocolate or sweets. We beg, steal or borrow the tubs from our friends, and even had a couple of tubs which Omar found earlier in the week on our Wednesday Group run, and one that was found on Tuesday's GoodGym task at FoodCycle. So in fact there had been no sweets for our GoodGym sweeties. Both Lucie and Laura had walked to the Jolly Toppers in Round Green from High Town to deliver their tubs, while getting in some kms for the January challenge. Both had a lovely reception from bar staff, who were happy to take the tubs. Ella dropped hers at the Ewe and Lambs in Dunstable . Gill's first tub was delivered after a short walk to the Jolly Milliner - the bar man was decidedly jolly and very keen to receive a tub as he said that they were in competition with the other pubs in the area to collect the most tubs. And finally Omar teemed up with Gill on Sunday for a 2km walk from Wardown Park back to the Biscot Mill, who had at last got their cage ready to receive the tubs. We had a brief rest in the pub with a coffee as it was bitterly cold, and it gave Gill a chance to show Omar how to connect his Strava to GoodGym, and as a new Task force Member, how to use the Task Fprce Admin Area to list new tasks, before walking back to the park and then heading for home.

Our GoodGym team were on duty at the Warwick Road Hall to help with the Sri Guru Ravidas Sangat Temple's New Year Party on e again. Our initial duty was to be be on the door: welcoming the guests, checking off the tickets, and selling tickets to anyone who had jot bought one in advance. All the guests received a warm welcome from the team and were shown to their seats with a smile. Throughout the evening we tidied up after each course of the meal and also helped with organisation of the raffle. In fact raffle tickets sales went so well Gill was sent out to buy more tickets. As the party neared the end, with our usual GoodGym efficiency, we took charge if clearing up - stacking chairs, clearing the tables and sweeping the hall. Some of us even managed to find time to join the last guests in some dancing. Sanjeev commended us all for our support throughout the year in the various tasks at the temple we've completed and wished the whole of GoodGym Luton a happy new year.

We had a wonderful evening sprucing up the football club. We mopped, scrubbed, painted and washed everything until it was sparkling. Nearly everyone ran and Susannah did her first long distance brisk walk for a while. Thank you so much to Cliff for the chocolates and squash afterwards!