Firstly welcome to Aimee and Amanda who joined us for their first GoodGym experience and got stuck straight in.

I'm very pleased to be able to report that we finished painting the railings around the church and they are all looking nice and black, shiny and matching!

We had many different conversation subjects tonight from bats to beetroot and carers to careers.

The vicar also looks after another church in Stamshaw and may have some more jobs for us in the future (not railing painting you'll be pleased to hear).

On a scorching hot evening we were pleased that the railings we were painting were mostly in the shade.

We got straight to work with the paint pots and spread out along the railings with the ambitious thought that we might just get the whole thing painted in an hour and a half.... A little over optimistic!

There was a lot of laughter from the other end of the railings.. But I couldn't hear what was going on so there won't be any secrets divulged here.

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Apologies for the lack of photos! I was desperately trying to get more paint on the rails than on me tonight!

Tonight's task was to sand the rails on one side of the church garden. There were 6 sections of railings that the vicar wanted us to paint.
He was a little optimistic with what he thought we could do!

Welcome to Nick who joined us for his first official task (good recruiting by Maxine). He wisely wore painting clothes, while Val painted her trainers and I managed to paint my arm via a plant that had got involved in the painting. Turns out nail polish remover is excellent for getting metal paint off skin!

Catherine did loads of rubbing down of the railings so almost all are ready to be painted. We only managed two sections tonight so we will be back again next week to (hopefully) finish off the job!