Pee? Ah no, I've got a GoodGym run to the Portico!
21 GoodGymers made their way 8.0km to help the Portico Gallery and Remakery in Lambeth.
- Tuesday, 10th of April 2018
- Led by Katie Welford
Let me tell you this run was flipping sweaty! Not content with being all rainy, the weather decided to turn the world into a humid sweatbox just in time for our Tuesday evening run.
Some of our regulars are still recovering from their awesome efforts at the Paris marathon, so a smaller but indeed perfectly formed group of 21 covered two tasks with aplomb. James B led a group 1.5km to the Remakery. This brilliant space has a workshop and teaches people how to recycle unloved materials and turn them into things of wonder and beauty again. Nice!
They had some moving of objects to do as part of a Spring clean, including a flipping PIANO! Top work team.
The rest of us headed on the 4km uphill journey to West Norwood and the Portico Gallery. The courtyard area outside needed tidying up. In particular, a massive pile of ash and bricks had to be pulled apart after 'too many hippies had started fires there'.
It's the hippies! Said John.
After putting all the bricks to one side so they can be saved for something else, all of the ash was scraped up and put in sacks ready to be taken away. We also moved some large metal structures from here to there and put some big bags full of stones onto a trolley (these act as weights for the gazebos used in the West Norwood Feast!).
The downhill run home was a bit easier but it was still very sticky and we were all glad to go and have a nice shower at the end. Not together though.
Report written by Katie Welford
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