The cold weather has arrived in earnest but it didn't stop a hardy team of goodgymers rock up ready to go off to the trenches for their weekly workout.

We started the session by celebrating Barbarapassing her 700th good deed and Laura her 50th, and welcoming new comer Alex to the group.

Vicky set off first with the party pace group and were met at Glen Allotments by an enthusiastic team. Ed's group arrived very soon after and we were all armed with spades and set to work.

The task was to dig one trench of 30 metres and another 20 metres, in preparation for a water pipe. There was some discussion about how deep 18 inches is - quite deep it turns out! No problem for our crew, who rose to the challenge! Within our alloted time we'd completed the task and were rewarded with home made flapjack.

Vicky set of back with the party gang whilst Ed's group did a spot of fun fitness.

Back at base we were rewarded by more delicious homemade biscuits courtesy of Laura!

A very enjoyable task!

There were 8 crooked GoodGym folk, and they ran some crooked miles,

They ran through crooked level crossings in really crooked style;

They bought some crooked beers which made them all talk crooked crap,

And they all chilled out together in the little crooked tap.

A small but solid crew were tasked with distributing booklets for York Disability week to various organisations, cafés, cinemas, shops and churches around the York area. I teamed up with Claire whilst the others worked solo but between us we got them all delivered despite some very rainy weather.