We painted inside and outside of book shop and gave it a fresh new look!

Well done to team.

A relax evening in luton with rollers, we added freshe paint to the shopfront and little brighter by the end! ✨️

This week it was a return to the Brown Books shop for another session pushing this community bookshop one step closer to re-opening.

On the way there, David and Chrisshane worked together on Chrisshanes week 4 of Couch to 5k, doing a loop with four 5 minute runs with walking rests in between. Chrisshane is doing fantastically at building her running stamina!

Completing the run on arrival at the shop the rest of the gang were hard at work sorting the space out. All the books and other stuff had arrived from storage and needed putting out on shelves. Masking tape needed peeling, paint splashes on the floor needed scrubbing up and the whole floor mopped clean of all the building grime from the last week.

We soon transformed the shop from what looked like a junk shop of piles of boxes and bits, into a clean, spacious area ready to be arranged to entice readers in to browse the books.

Stormy weather prompted a change of task this week as we were scheduled to paint dugouts at the 61 Football Club, but instead we went for indoor painting as the refurbishment of the Brown Books community bookshop nears completion.

On arrival, we swept up after the carpenters and had a quick workout using paint cans and sharing physio exercise tips for building knee strength.

We had yellow and green paint to apply to different parts of the walls so we got the rollers going and began the transformation from stark white.

We didn't quite get it all finished but made a good dent in it, ready to finish off next time around!

The GoodGymers were once again back helping Browns Books with set up before their opening. Today the team were tasked with alphabetising (if that’s even a word) all the shelved books. There were some interesting titles amongst them and we occasionally found ourselves reminiscing and laughing over some of the old school books and annuals in the collection.

What an interesting way to spend a couple of hours on a Friday afternoon. With time on our hands, three of us met up at Luton Point to help with the next chapter of Brown Books' move into their new premises. Today's tasks was all about shelves. The shelves had been cleaned and places around the shop and our next job was to start sorting through the boxes and bags of books and organise the books by genre. It was incredible to see the variety of books that make up the stock. And some of the older books had us reminiscing about times when we had read them. Before long we had the shelves filled with thrillers, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, history, cooking and a whole lot more. And it was lovely seeing all the children's novels and picture books too. Apologies to Gail as she left before the group photo, but our literary trio did a great job. Well done.