Five Goodgymers met in Hull Road Park for a sunny lunchtime task. It was too frosty to weed the rockery as planned, but we barrowed some fresh woodchip to top up the raised beds and cleared away some of the old growth from last year. In the meantime, Rich scored a triple on the January bingo card by running round in all three of his Goodgym t-shirts to pick 100 pieces of litter, and recording the effort with a selfie.

A crack team of Goodgymers met in the park to help the Council Eco team with some maintenance - the removal of an assorted pile of branches, wood chip and rubbish, with a bonus pair of pants (!). We then raked out the remaining compost to reveal the bulbs coming through in the neighbouring flowerbed, leaving the park ready for spring.

Our GG New Year's resolution to run further, work harder is paying off this Friday. Five women plus Parkie, Rachel worked flat out to clear two areas of leaves, barrow them to bins and turn the leaf mulch. They avoided disaster on black ice, and kept warm with the upper body workouts, sweeping, lifting, barrowing and digging the soggy leaves. Baby Dylan played his part very well, sleeping through the leaf blower and laughter! Great job team! Onwards an upwards to the next task...

Barbara and I met at Kingsway in Clifton for a spot of lunchtime litter picking. We filled 3 bags each in an hour with plenty more still to do!

Best find today - a spoon

we will list again for a second visit as we barely scratched the surface

Vicky and Laura both got armed with a litter picker after the morning task and both collected a bag full. We weren't sure if we'd get 100 bits each, but turns out those Holgate lot are a mucky bunch and pickings were rich and we both ticked iff the bingo square!

Despite the pouring rain all day and the original task being cancelled, we still had 19 hardy goodgymers turn out for the last group run of 2025!

We are very grateful to Laura for stepping in last minute and finding us a wide array of jobs at Holgate Community Garden. We had budlea cutters, compost shifters, leaf sweepers and woodchip weeders.

We soon rattled through the jobs then ended with some Christmas themed tag, where you had to sing a line from a Christmas song to release the tagged reindeer/snowman/holly/santa.

It was then back to base led by Pete and thats it for this year... except the party on Friday!