Yesterday, five GoodGymers made their almost weekly pilgrimage down to Bedford Fields. Despite the sickness going round, we were still able to field a solid team. Shenanigans were afoot with themes including shaving your head, starting fires and Greggs floating around.

The gang got to work with trimming back some of the mint and other overgrown plants as well as raking some of the fallen leaves and dead bushes. Later, we trimmed back the blackcurrant bushes, removing any branches that were interfering with each other, and taking straight cuttings to be used later. Some of the mint and marjoram was kept to be used for drinks and such. We ended the day by placing cardboard around the trees and some of the bushes and then shoveling mulch onto them. A very solid workout for the day.

Lovely to see the newer faces of Caragh, Alice, and Lloyd - hope to see you all at the Christmas party! Jason is still the King of Bedford Fields, the piano calls to him.

How many GoodGymers does it take to build an Ikea kitchen?!

Moving, rearranging, building kitchens, hanging doors, litter picking with tongs, running, star gazing, cookies, hot chocolate, hot water bottles down tops, falling over, star gazing & the cold.

Of all the random GoodGym nights, tonight was probably the most random. There were a lot of us in a very confined space at Bedford Fields as the ground was too frozen to do anything outside. We hung a door, started to build a kitchen and rearranged furniture.

Thanks to the none runners for staying behind to do more on the kitchen.

Congratulations to Helen on her 170th good deed! You're amazing.

Jason was the Piano Man at today's session at Bedford Fields!

We were tasked with fixing up an old piano as a planter & Jason took on the challenge like a pro. We fixed it back together with wood to make it sturdy enough to hold plants, herbs & a pear tree.

There was 8 of us today, so some of the gang dug up a large area of the garden to clear it of weeds.

It was great to welcome Lloyd & Caragh to GoodGym, we hope to see you again soon.

Thanks guys, the Piano looked great by the end :)

One GoodGymer made their way down to Bedford Fields to help run a Apple Pressing event which is all the rage in Leeds at the moment. The equipment was lent by Leeds Urban Harvest which included a scratter (destroys the cut up apples into even small pieces) and then the press itself which produced some lovely apple juice.

We had approximately 20 to 30 members of the public join and help with providing apples, cutting them up and the bits above. Everyone had a chance to sample the apple juice which many, including myself, thought was the best apple juice they've had. The juice was a dark maroon with small bits which must mean the shop bought ones must filter these bits out.

Though we had a lot of people around and the production line was in full swing, we still have several hundred apples left which i suppose might be expected when Henry turned up with six rubble sacks of apples and then the public too. It was a long day of physical labour but very well rewarded with three bottles of apple juice to take home.

Tonight 10 GoodGymers ran up to Bedford Fields Community Garden to do a variety of tasks. Between us we emptied the van, tidied up the borders, cleared a path, weeded and litter picked the area! It was a whirlwind but we got a lot done in an hour and 10 minutes. We did however almost lose two members when Bryony & Shannen diligently litter picked on the paths above the garden...a moment of panic when we thought they'd got lost. Luckily they came back with 2 full bags of litter.

Well done everyone!

A big GoodGym welcome to Sana tonight on her first session and welcome back to Kerry, Lana & Irene.

Eight GoodGymers headed to Bedford Fields tonight to meet up with Beth and tackle today's task. She quickly set us up with assorted implements (including a bread knife) to clear the overgrown Comfrey edging the paths. We also tackled the bindweed that has been strangling the fruit trees and bushes and thinned out the mint. The air became minty fresh and we all started to think about our dinners...Finally, Beth told us about the living piano that is to be installed in the garden....a future project, perhaps for GoodGym! Tonight the runners clocked up 5km to help Chloe reach her 100km in 3 weeks target.