There was plenty of pebbles and a good deal of dashing to be done in order to get tonight’s task finished on time. Once again we were visiting our Friends at Growing works to help lay some new paths which would improve access at their community allotment.

Cut a couple of inches of turf nice and level, lay in the weed inhibitor sheet, cover with a section of eco-grid and infill with pebbles...et voila a ready made path!

With characteristic enthusiasm Kati Law and Ben Godfrey got stuck in with one path whilst Louise Galvin, Alison Cottam, Tom Wood and David Pizzey tackled another. Meanwhile Zena Whalley and David Bilton got busy pairing a pitting shed.

It was always going to be a tall order to get the job done in an hour but we managed, albeit with a bit of frenetic pebble shoveling in the last few minutes. But by just after 7:30pm we had two brand new sections of path laid and a much prettier looking potting shed. Our Task Master Rachel from Growing works pronounced herself very happy with the fruits of our labours. Well done and thanks to the entire team tonight, great to be doing good on such a beautiful evening.

Thanks to Alison Cottam for the idea for the report title and David Bilton for his kind donation of 5 litter rings....they will be put to good use next week at Snow Island.

There were plenty of diggers for today's GoodGym task, both the human and mechanical kind.

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) the latter were not available for our use, so we set about with picks and spades to continue with our ongoing mission to clear the Riverside Way of the dumped soil and rubble that have been blocking it for a number of years.

And what progress we made! A couple of hours of picking and shoveling saw the path re-instated over a distance of about ten metres. Great work from today's team of Louise Galvin, Ben Godfrey, Tom, Thom Wood, SallyAnn Maish and Robert Armitage. Top effort folks, today's task masters Jeff and Kim from Greenstreams pronounced themselves very impressed with our work. There is of course always more work to be done on the Riverside Way and we'll be returning later in the summer for another session.

Fortunately Fartown Forest Garden didnt require too much heavy duty fettling this evening. Thats not to say we didn't have a productive session with Rachel from Growing works, but the cold dry spring has meant that much of the weeds, saplings and other vegetation we cleared last autumn have yet to grow back.

So Kati Law, Ben Godfrey, David Bilton, Thom Wood, Alison Cottom and myself spent and enjoyable hour, lopping, chopping and generally tidying to keep the site safe and accessible for the local people who use it.

And what really capped off a fine evening of doing good was that David had kindly brought along his home made biscuits us all!

Today we killed a pick axe....and broke a spade. But on the positive side we also cleared a section of the Riverside Way that had been buried in soil and rubble for the last few years.

It was a tough job, shifting tons of rocks and earth but as ever GoodGym were up for the challenge. Today's crew comprising Tom, Thom Wood, Louise Galvin, Zena Whalley, Sally Ann-Maish and myself spent a very productive two hours shoveling soil and removing rubble (whilst also enjoying the spring sunshine) to reveal the route of the long lost Riverside Way.

Thanks to our efforts Riverside ramblers no longer need to negotiate the tricky tree routes on the water's edge but can instead safely pass along the newly cleared path.

That's not to say the task is entirely finished, there is still more digging to be done as the route requires widening but we'll save that for another time. But in the meantime today's crew can certainly take credit for a good job well done.

Six intrepid GoodGymmers convened at the Rawthorpe Estate this evening to help tidy up the area. Armed with GoodGym Huddersfield’s trusty litter pickers they split into two teams. (Kati’s team and Wendy’s team, as everyone else was called Tom or David!) The challenge was to see who could find a KitKat wrapper, something cherry flavoured and something written in a foreign language. The two teams quickly amassed the usual random array of items. David B found a discarded bin to put his rubbish in. Which lead to this week’s report title (thank you Wendy.) Kati’s team managed to collect slightly more rubbish, but Wendy’s team managed to find a KitKat wrapper and something cherry flavoured. We will be back collecting rubbish on the Rawthorpe Estate again next Tuesday. Will anyone manage to find some rubbish written in a foreign language then?