Today's rain cleared in time for our task last night, yay.

Learning fun facts on the way (like Mark's friend played Elton John's hands playing the piano in 'Rocketman'!) we jogged up through Crystal Palace Park, wondering of 'StonePenge' will survive the park's remodelling the next year or so.

Arriving at the museum gates we met two more Goodgymers (Megan and Anna) and David, who was showing us round.

We set about our recurring task here, first weeding with trowels and hoes, then clearing soil down as far as possible to the water tower floor.

The soil when sieved (through a now-decrepit shopping trolley) makes it to various local gardening projects. And we WILL eventually get to the floor of the water tower all the way round, ready for its makeover.

We whiled away the time a little too well, me forgetting to check my watch so we ran over a bit, so absorbed in our work and the chat about the size of spiders this year.

Thanks all for turning out and doing this fantastic job :)

Read to the end to reveal the mystery!

Tonight we headed up the hill for a task at the St Christopher's Hospice shop on Crystal Palace Triangle. It's a seriously well stocked shop, so much so that a few of us even ended up having a late night spree! Would recommend if you're ever in the area.

Anyway we came from all over to get to the task venue - some direct from home, some up from the Bridge House. We had a series of jobs which were executed with aplomb:

James took on the hoover for his 8th time?! Megan was pricing up some fancy crockery. Mariah was taping up some well stuffed bags so they don't split on the way to the Streatham store. Charlie and Kelsey were cleaning the shelves. Catherine and Cat were boxing up some older bric-a-brac. Jess was on steamer duty and I think that's everyone 👏👏👏

Oh yeah, the brogue. So basically there were a few single shoes, i.e. not in pairs. Me and Kelsey were like "wtf?!" but then we asked Teresa and it turns out it's all part of the plan. If there's some spenny shoes above a certain price, they keep one hidden away so they don't go walkies. Clever eh?!

Well done GG CP. I always have such a nice time hanging out with you. See you next time.

Today I volunteered to be a timekeeper at Crystal Palace junior halloween theme park run.

Feel like you need to get up and get away from your desk after a tough work day? Feel like you need to get outside to beat that 'change of season' feeling? Or do you need a little reason to get moving just a little bit more? Maybe you want to learn a bit more about which shops, new martial arts places, bars and restaurants are in your local area? Need someone to run your Halloween costume idea by? the answer to all of these is on the little postcards we stuck up on noticeboards and on counters in local businesses this evening - Goodgym on a Monday night!

Six of us headed around Penge to start, and then a few other places on each of our routes home, spreading to GoodGym Word.

Sorry about the terrible photography on my part...

Thanks all for turning out - we'll get a good few new faces from this I'm sure :)

Today I volunteered at junior parkrun. It was a lovely day and we had 70 children taking part. We are always looking for volunteer marshals

Tonight's task was an unusual one - attaching lovely giant poppies to lampposts in Penge, for the upcoming Remembrance Day. The poppies will actually be up from today til mid November when we have a mirror task to take them down - so a full month to have those lovely colourful flowers up as a reminder of those who gave so much.

We split into two mini-teams and each took one side of the high street, attaching poppies as we walked, from the Bridge House up to Kent House Road. It seemed like there were a lot more lampposts on one side of the road, so James and I felt a bot like we were cheating when we moved ahead of our opposite team - and crossed back at the end to add a couple and meet them on the way back. All in all once we got the hang of the cable ties, a sweet task. And someone even approached us to ask if we had a collection tin with us. Aren't people nice!