Well the day started out covering the hills, streets and pavements of Sheffield with snow once more. And the evening brought freezing temperatures …. n-ice!

So, just as we were off to remove compacted leaf mulch, which was making local pavements dangerously slippery, the weather was throwing in some additional slipperiness for us. To quote Blackadder - what we were dealing with was as slippery as an eel, on a slippery slope, wearing a slipper ….

Thankfully we were all COVID vaccinated so weren’t having to ice-olate.

Credit to Celine for organising this mission and to all who braved the Arctic conditions to attend - especially those who b-ice-ycled there.

At the end of our work, as we surveyed what we’d achieved, I said to Celine: “snow matter how difficult the conditions, Good Gym will always get the job done”.

‘Icy what you did there” she replied ….