Sunshine, hard work, chips and plenty of pigs.....what's not to like about today's GoodGym Community Mission? GoodGym Huddersfield regulars, Louise Galvin, Ben Godfrey, Tom Elcock and myself, were joined by Annie Hinton, Tom Harman and Egg Cameron for a return visit to the Pigs in the Wood sanctuary.

This time we had a mega task ahead of us to construct a retaining wall of railway sleepers. This plan was to deter the piggy residents from climbing on a muddy bank and hold the bank back.

So it was on with GoodGym Huddersfield's favourite activity....digging! We needed to excavate a straight trench into which the sleepers could be set. Once that was done, it was a case of heaving the heavy sleepers into position and ensuring they were set level and solid.

There was plenty of other jobs to do besides digging and various members of the group also got busy with laying gravel, painting fences and shoveling pig poo!

By the time lunchtime arrived we were all ready for the chips kindly provided by Pigs in the Wood as reward for our efforts. The pigs were ready for lunch too, and you needed your wits about you if your chips were to avoid becoming a piggy dinner!

Another couple of hours of the team pulling together in the afternoon saw our work for the day done. We had managed to get quite a few sleepers set very securely into ground, giving the beginnings of a solid retaining wall, which will surely keep the pigs off the bank.

Well done everyone for your efforts today, it was definitely an epic session but another great job done.

There were plenty of pigs at our task this morning, there was also plenty of gravel. Nearly 20 tons to be accurate, which needed to be moved in order to to improve the paths at the Pigs in the Woods site.

This was a task with multiple challenges, including the fact that the gravel had been dumped at the bottom of a very steep slope, necessitating a lot of hard labour with buckets and wheelbarrows to move it to where it needed to be.

The weather also provided a challenge, the forecast heavy rain and cold temperatures were not too bad however as once we got going shovelling and shifting stones we were well warm!

Our third challenge were the residents themselves, with free range around the ten acre site, many of the pigs were very interested in what we were doing. Their inquisitive nature meant they were soon snuffling in our buckets of stones, presumably searching for a tasty treat.

Just two GoodGymmers today, Tom and myself but fortunately we joined about a dozen other volunteers from WTF otherwise we would have been shifting stones until the cows (or pigs) came home.

Thanks to Pigs in the Wood for providing us with such a fantastic workout this morning. It was great to help out such a unique organisation and meet the pigs once again. I'm really looking forward to returning in June for another GoodGym job for the pigs in the wood.