Despite BBC predicting a 100% chance of rain all afternoon, the weather kindly held off for us to complete a scavenger hunt through the pubs of Portsmouth.

Meeting at the Merchant House, and leaving ourselves semi-comatose after some particularly large festive burgers, our squad set out to help the fictitious Gigi to meet up with her blind date.

Sinéad's incredible gig memory helped solve a clue after a poster was unfortunately changed since our reconnaissance mission two weeks ago! We nearly met the same fate at The Bowls Club, but after causing some minor confusion to some local OAPs, the squad of merry GoodGymers were able to crack the next code.

We finished celebrations at The Jolly Sailor, where the annual awards were announced and distributed.

Top 10 Good Deeds: 1. Dave 2. Judy 3. Jen 4. Jane 5. Andy 6. Katie L 7. Lucy 8. Yvonne 9. Sinead 10. Val

Forrest Gump (Top 10 Distance Covered): 1. Lucy 2. Dave 3. Katie L 4. Andy 5. Katie CR 6. Abby 7. Sinead 8. Judy 9. Val 10. Angela

Our GoodGymer of the Year Awar went to Andy - for his Group Running, Social Visiting and Task Force Joining Greatness!!

As usual on our trips to the synagogue, Barbara had found plenty of tasks to complete keep us busy.

The boys got stuck in with sanding, dusting and glossing a table that was in need of some TLC. Meanwhile, Henry Hoover was in demand, with the Katies in the main chapel and up and down the staircases. Sinéad and Sammy were kept busy in the kitchen corridor with some clearing, cleaning and dusting.

We also enjoyed some mince pies, provided by Sam, and received a lovely Christmas Card and some goodies from Barbara and her team.

Thank you to our lovely team of GoodGymers for helping out with a bit of an odd task this week!

Part 1 was an adventure into our loft to bring down some old CD racks that are being transformed into planters for a local charity. Dave and Andy seemed to have some pent-up rage as they ripped off the backs with their bare hands!

We then walked the racks in a rather unusual convoy through the streets of Buckland, then set them in place and started loading them with compost ready for planting in spring.

As we were finished in plenty of time, we tidied the shed and had a little basketball challenge. Dave also tested out the pirate ship slide and declared it a good experience, "except for my spine". That is certainly a review from someone creeping closer to 40!!

We enjoyed a casual 2.5km run along the seafront this morning, with the rain fortunately holding off whilst we were running. The wind was a little bit forceful along the front though - and we also had to carry on a little longer so Andy's run hit a round number on his Strava!

We did manage to get most of our coffees down before the rain tried to come back, but did get slightly wet bottoms whilst we sat at Coffee Cup!

We ventured out of the city this evening, with a slightly shifty-looking rendezvous in Sainsbury's car park. Walking and running groups made their way uphill to St Andrew's Church, where we met up with Chris, the church's volunteer gardener.

An impressive array of tools made their way from Chris' car to the compost area, where we set to work loading the contents of a make-shift compost heap into bags. This will allow Chris to build a functioning container for the compost, keeping things much tidier.

In her enthusiam, Judy somehow managed to upturn a whole shovel-full of compost over Ness, who in turn nearly took David's head off with a pitchfork. I wonder if I might need to work on my risk assessments! Wilson unearthed a 10ft python* whilst digging, which Ness kindly and carefully moved to a safe new home.

We certainly worked up an appetite, but luckily Val provided some tasty brownie bites to fuel our run back.

*it was a slow worm