Runners and Walkers assembled for this evening's mission, talking about all of the exciting things we might sort out today.

The experienced amongst us passing on our wisdom about never picking a tent up as they're too much of a pole-aver (thanks Emma for the pun).

The runners voted 4-0 for the most direct route given the conditions and on arrival were greeted by welcoming staff, with welcoming drinks and biscuits!

Instead of the usual piles of assorted items, the plan was... tents!

The walkers soon joined us and tents, large and small, were pitched, examined and put away, despite every tent bag shrinking which made it trickier to put them back in again!

Ousmane was the star tent-packer-upper, taking only between 1-3 tries to get it in the bag with an occasional roly-poly from Vaguely Northern Darren to flatten the larger tents!

Once finished we headed back to Workout for the good deed debrief and decided that maybe tent-checking is not as bad as we thought.

Just wow.

Richard B was unstoppable once we'd arrived and found the task beneficiary to get the tools. The rest of us thought we were working really hard until we could suddenly see each other as Richard B chopped a swathe through the middle of our bramble patch - amazing work!

All of us were keen to keep moving as it was one of those nights when the temperature drops away and it suddenly Really Quite Cold and gardening gloves aren't that warm. it definitely keeps is all on our toes (which, usefully, is one of my physio exercises - not yet ticked off for today).

Princess Caraboo was looking in the party mood, admiring our work from her throne, under her careful supervision we're making real progress to be able to see the ground, although a lot of bramble toots are going to need pulling out when we can see them.

Back to Workout to enjoy the Christmas session of the painting class who all looked serene until they had table tennis bats is their hands when aggression definitely took over. Fortunately their talent at stopping the ping pong ball getting as far as us was exemplary.

The last sense of amazement was saved for the Coffee Arr book from the bookshelf - who knew that "Oasis with Palm Trees" was even possible? We didn't pass it to the lively bar staff...

Back again next week for our Scavenger Litter Pick Festive Burger mash-up - right up our street!