Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

29 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
Caroline
Lisa Elliott
Richard Breakspear
Melanie Young
Shona Buchanan
Jenny Chak
VaguelyNorthernDarren
Laura Spencer
Jess
Sarah Taylor
Simon Freakley
Nick Valentine
Richard Joseph Gayle II
Martha Price
Kerry Williams
Catherine Ransford
Dulcie
Liana G
Becky
Steve
Rebecca Marston
Stephen H
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Bristol

Tuesday 10th March 2020

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Melanie Young
Melanie Young

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Shona Buchanan
Shona Buchanan

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Report written by Shona Buchanan

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It was a Bumper Birthday Night: massive happy birthday to Claire who celebrated with us (and a whole load of chocolate cake) tonight and to Kerry who had her birthday on Sunday. 🎂🎈🎉

It was great to have Stephen join us for the first time - welcome Stephen! And lovely to see Nick back from his 6 month stint in Canada, welcome back to the rain Nick! Alex and Richard also joined us an impressive 3 days after completing the Green Man Ultra - ouch! Great to see you both.

We had two tasks tonight to help with tonight. Maria led a group to Clifton to do leafleting for her orchestra who are doing a fundraising concert for the Bristol Drugs Project. The team did a great job of climbing Park Street, distributing the several hundred leaflets and working on their orchestra impressions/ invisible instrument playing.

Meanwhile, the rest of the gang headed to Faithspace where we were met by Suzanne and Marky. Marky set a small group to work with some gardening tasks in the green space opposite the community centre. The rest of the group helped Suzanne by distributing 200 leaflets about upcoming community centre events around the local area, prompting a game of Who Can Find A Letterbox - surprisingly challenging in Redcliffe!

We finished off with some biscuits, juice and a bit of core, then headed back to Queen Square with a stop for arm-circling-relays and finished off with tabata lunges and squats - you might feel them tomorrow.

I don't Claire what you say, there is no such thing as too much cake

After all of that, we headed in for birthday celebrations with not one, not two, but three types of cake. OOFT.

*Pun credit to Darren and obviously not me who it needed explaining to



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Nick Valentine

Wed 11th Mar 2020 at 6:43pm

Thanks for the shoutout Shona

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