Before arriving for todays session at Foodcycle, all volunteers had received an email to let us know that due to having no-one to lead the hosting team, this evenings meal would be served as a take away. Mayra and myself were in the kitchen team but due to the circumstances our task didn’t just involve chopping, cutting and washing up. Whilst we did a lot of that too. The dishes being made for the take away were Vege stew with lentils and kidney beans and apple 🍎 and pear 🍐 pie 🥧 for pudding. We set out chairs for the guests to sit on when they arrived and as it was raining outside we decided to provide a hot drink for everyone coming in out of the rain, which was quite heavy at points. Abdo and Derrick were in the hosting team and they looked after the guests until they left with their dinner and then the guys packed up. Well done everyone, great effort under different circumstances 👏

Today I did some shopping for Breakfast Battery Boxes 📦. They needed someone to pivk up some stock for their forthcoming half term project and reached out to ask if I could help. So I made my way to the local supermarket and picked up some bits from their shopping list. Baked beans, porridge oats and long life milk were amongst the goodies I grabbed for the BBB team and they were very grateful.

8 of Goodgym Luton's finest made their way to support the Friends of Bramingham Park and abcd-in-luton as they embarked on a litter pick, covering a vast area in Bramingham. After the usual litterpick briefing, that we've heard so many times, but is always so important. We all headed out to see how much litter we could find dotted around this local greenspace. The walk took a few of us into Bramingham wood, which is a lovely extension to the park but also a cheeky hiding place for all sorts of litter treats. I'd say with the other participants there must have been easily 20 bags of rubbish collected. Well done everyone, great effort this morning

This morning I went along to the Warden Hill Community garden to prep the ground and sow some mustard seeds. It was hard word as the ground was quite compact in places but with a little bit of sweat and effort, I had a lovely seed bed ready for planting. At one point I could feel something in the ground that was hard to turn over. I remember last year, the team found some sizable rocks 🪨 and I thought it was another one, but it turned out to be a piece of pipe. I navigated around it, although I did have a good go at digging it out, it wasn't having any of it. I finished off watering all the beds then headed off to the next task

6 goodgymers met at Leagrave Park this evening to help to tidy away the Square Garden. We moved lots of bags that had old gazeebo covers and loaded up the shipping container with chairs and other bits and bobs.