Tonight we helped the lovely folk from York in Recovery get on top of their allotment space. God knows how task owner Tracey had managed to stay on top of it on her own previously, but fair play to her!

With some extra hands from 9 eager GG Yorkies we helped to tackle the over-growing hedge with whatever tools we could find, whilst Babs did a spot of weeding. We managed to make a pretty decent sized pile of cuttings from the hedge, ready to be burnt another day. And despite multiple sharp and spikey things neither Jane nor Pete managed to hurt themselves.

Top work all round!

On a crisp autumnal Saturday morning 12 spritely Goodgymers assembled at Middlethorpe Hall a beautiful National Trust historic hotel. The first few to arrive quickly spotted a bountiful breakfast spread of juice, hot beverages, pastries and bacon or egg butties, incredulously they were all for us! But as Goodgymer Lionel was our task contact we shouldn’t have been surprised at such generous hospitality! But enough about the breakfast (which was delicious if you succeeded in getting it into your mouth - case in point Katie).

Our task was to refresh the sunken fence paintwork (not a ha-ha to be exact). And as we had generously been provided with new metal bristle brush scrapers and paint brushes, we got to work. It was decided to concentrate on the first half of the long sunken fence to make sure both prep and paint could be finished but as our busy team of 12 cracked on we were able to extend our progress even more, powered by good company and a brilliant buffet.

By the time 12 rolled around we had managed to complete the sections we set out to refresh much to a delighted Lionel. After doing such a good job we’ve been invited back on the 17th of October, so sign up now as it’s sure to be another great GG task.