It was all cocktails and shenanigans for 9 Goodgymmers tonight as they partied by the pool at Lordship Rec.

Kudos Corner

Everybody make some noise for Nasser who smashed his first run, task, and social with us tonight. Talk about multi-tasking! And he did it all with grace and a smile. Hero! Come again...

And what a sight for sore eyes was the return of our prodigal naughty daughter Alex, who paid us a visit all the way from Glasgow, on her birthday no less! She had clearly missed us as the puns rolled out effortlessly through the night non-stop. GGH loves ya, Alex. See you again soon.

Plumbing To New Depths

It was a stick-your-fingers-in-dirty-cracks, going-off-the-deep-end, retelling-stories-of-scatological-bathtub-shenanigans kind of evening for our Goodgymmers tonight. And it all started so well!

Joan, from the Lordship Rec Friends group met us with some newly-acquired hand tools by the Lordship Rec Hub and tasked us with removing weeds from the cracks between the paving stones by the paddling pool and cutting down the grass by the benches overlooking this popular body of water, in the hope of coming sunshine. Any hopes of summery vibes were washed away immediately when Neil promptly informed us that according to the news earlier that day, it's going to rain for the next ten thousand days or thereabouts. Nevertheless, we live in hope and we threw ourselves into our jobs with naked abandon.

Our Goodgymmers worked the cracks between the paving stones professionally and efficiently, while shooting the breeze and catching up with our favourite putative Glaswegian Goodgymmer.

Gramps obviously took the opportunity to take the plunge into the pool and was vocal in his disappointment that no one had followed him in.  

After around an hour of honest graft, we had managed to cover a large chunk of the pool surroundings and Joan seemed very pleased with our progress.

With the clock now tickling 8pm, Nurjehan's timekeeping spider sense kicked into overdrive and began hurrying us along. And good thing it was as well, as we had to make our way to the pub where we had reserved a table for our social and where we knew a rival running group was meeting tonight too. It was our goal to beat them to the bar - Reader, we did.

Join us again next week for more fun and games.