UK Pun Day? Hail yes, we never run out of puns

49 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
Paul Becker
Lisa Elliott
Richard Breakspear
Darren
Melanie Young
Shona Buchanan
Charlotte Senior
Liam Scott
Kait Kirwan
VaguelyNorthernDarren
Anna Tattersall
Russ Cahill
Toby Jones
Nathalie Levi
Toby Gallagher
Simon Freakley
Valè Pico
Dhanesh Patel
Ellie Leopold
Lee
Richard Joseph Gayle II
Martha Price
Matt Burton
Jade Cahill
Hannah Swinburne
Stephanie Restivo
Darius Ghadiali
Abigail Murphy
Kerry Williams
Laura Jackson
Jane Friery
Ashleigh
Becky
Owen Turner
Aidan H
Sara
Steve
Beth Shedden
Barnaby
Dom
Julia Bradley
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Bristol

Tuesday 11th February 2020

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Melanie Young
Melanie Young

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Shona Buchanan
Shona Buchanan

SESSION ORGANISER

Bristol runner

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Liam Scott
Liam Scott

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With Ciara and Dennis mainly deciding to stay home tonight, it gave the hardcore GoodGymers a chance to get out for Tuesday Group Run with only some gusts and a bit of hail to contend with. It was great to have Ellie, Darius and Julia join us for the first time - welcome! It was an extra special day for GoodGym as it was UK Pun Day - surely this is the equivalent of an important national holiday for GoodGym?

Turning the tables

Liam was leading the Warehouse Shifters to Emmaus, where they were helping Xanne on our regular slot in their big donations warehouse. As we had been told that they were going to be leafleting for the night, it was a lucky escape into the warmth and dryness of the indoors! The team were tasked with a massive game of Furniture Tetris (or clearing all of furniture donations into ordered areas with enough aisles and room for movement around them). A lot of shifting, lifting and 'To me, to you'-ing later and the warehouse was in a much better order than before.

Up above the streets of Bristol, leafleting in the night, GoodGym fills your letterboxes, with stuff you'll like - come and run the Children's Hospice Rainbow (Run)

The rest of us headed to Clifton to continue leafleting for The Children's Hospice South West's Rainbow Run. Luckily the hills were not to punful, and soon we were up and punning and ready to go. We split into four teams to cover the area. Between them, they distributed 500 leaflets in less than 25 minutes. Paul B was there so I think he was sharing his secret leafleting skills with the group. The first group back celebrated with the underrated biscuit classic which is The Party Ring. We headed back to centre with the added entertainment of watching trailer-gait and Darren entertained/confused most of us who were vaguely young with a rendition of the Rainbow theme tune with the impressive GoodGym-based lyrics. Luckily the power of Google has refreshed our memories and we kind of know what he was going on about.

Finally, our bunch of pundits got inside and paired up with their well-earned GoodGym pint/beverage/hot shower/dry clothes. Happy Pun Day one and all!


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