Maybe we shouldn't flier from Turbo Island again. Its clearly cursed. One minute its a lovely bright Winters day, the next its sleet and cold rain and improvised plastic bags to protect our precious cargo of leaflets. It was the same story for our HelpfulPeeps record attempt when we met there last year.

Still, after a brief warm-up with some leg swings of celebration following our table-topping Good deed haul in January our main group set out for the Island to make the best of it. The cause was certainly a good one - we were promoting a Warehouse Sale for our good friends Emmaus who help their previously homeless companions back into long term accommodation and employment.

We split into three groups to cover as much ground as possible - big thanks to Jack and Charlie for helping me out by leading theirs. In spite of the adverse conditions we still managed to distribute several hundred leaflets which should help Emmaus to attract lots of customer to raise lots of funds for their vital work.

Meanwhile ...

Since it was such a bitterly cold day Sarah, Maria and Paddy volunteered to take the GG bag of tea and biscuits around the centre of Bristol to offer hot drinks to anyone sleeping rough in the city. They did amazingly well and managed to serve 17 people - even stopping off at Subway so they could refill the flask and get round more people. Great work you three!

A game of Gym Runny

The leaflets and tea delivered, we all met back at Queen Square for a game of fitness cards. Two teams compete with the suit determining the activity and the rank the number of reps. It was close in the end with Georginas team narrowly missing out on 7 cards to Charlies' teams' 8.

And finally, Eats

Its the first Tuesday of the month so we finished the evening with our monthly eats at Sticks and Broth, kindly organised by Maria. Great to have Emma on hand to take the selfie and nice to see her running with us again.

An earlier start today, on a chilly wet morning, yet with a shorter and later start group run option also on the table, a hardy 17 runners still turned out to spread a little Saturday morning goodness! Very impressive!

Maybe it was the prospect of visiting a new task, a Goat Palace no less and the prospect of meeting some new furry friends or maybe we just liked the idea of a long and wet run with the prospect of getting stuck into some hard work and getting very muddy in the process.

Whatever the reason, it was great to have everyone along and after a warm up and a welcome to our newcomer Catt we set off for the 5k predominantly uphill run to Troopers Hill, stopping to regroup regularly so that we all arrived together at our destination and met up with our lovely host Amy and her group of volunteers at StreetGoat on the farm allotments.

StreetGoat is a community project that aims to keep dairy goats on unused urban land around Bristol and there is a lot of work to do at this particular site.

WIth the earlier start we had a good hour or so to provide a bit a muscle and we soon had a group digging a trench with spades, mattocks and pickaxes so that a water pipe can be laid so that they can get water for the goats easily and for hand and utensil washing.

We then had a second group bashing large wooden stakes into the ground, enthusiastically using post drivers to get the job done and doing a fabulous job given the deceptively stoney ground.

Meanwhile, group three had perhaps the least glamorous job of clearing rubbish from a patch of ground adjacent to the goat pen, trying to shift all kinds of debris from carpets, glass and buckets to steel pipes and plastic matting pinned down by a bed of brambles.

We certainly made some headway in the time available to us and were rewarded with some tea and fabulous flapjack and a wander down to "coo" over the rather contented goats and a very lovely fluffy dog.

This will be an ongoing project so we can hopefully look forward to a return visit in the not too distant future!

Another 5k home this time largely downhill for some stretches and a few announcements and then off for some well earned grub.

Thanks to Paddy for backmarking today and to Lisa and Matt for the additional photos.