All five GoodGymmers made their way to today’s task under their own steam. Juli, Jess, and first‑timer Pammi walked over together from the community centre, Angela arrived by bike, and Ed took a meandering route via a few extra churches before joining us at St Luke’s.

At the church we were greeted by task owner Jaqueline, who revealed our challenge: mountains of pruned branches and brush. Suspiciously familiar mountains. Possibly the very same ones we proudly created on previous visits. Apparently the universe (and Jaqueline) had decided it was time for us to tidy up after ourselves.

The mission: break it all down, bag it all up, and prepare it for its glamorous final journey to the dump.

The team got stuck in immediately; snapping, stuffing, chatting, and generally turning chaos into neatly filled black sacks. The weather behaved, the daylight was kind, and the piles shrank with satisfying speed. Juli and Angela even discovered a couple of froggy supervisors, who hopped out of the way as we dismantled their hiding place.

After an hour of industrious bag‑filling, we stood back to admire our handiwork; 31 bags packed, stacked, and ready for their ride to rubbish heaven.

We always love a visit to St Luke’s, and something tells us we’ll be back soon; to finish the job, tackle new odd‑jobs, or maybe just check in on our froggy friends.

Sheila and Rosie put out a call to see if anyone could come and help with transplanting seedlings at the community allotment. We were delighted to be joined by another 5 GoodGymers. We were pleased to welcome Deepti to her very first GoodGym session. We constructed a makeshift workbench on one of the raised beds using some spare board, gathered some planting modules donated by Sheila, Juli and Rosie, and found some top soil to use. We set to work transplanting tomatoes, beans, peas, nasturtiums and parsley. A robin came to visit, hoping to find a tasty morsel.The odd rain shower sent us scurrying for shelter in the greenhouse, and in the end rain stopped play, but not before we had transplanted and watered most of the seedlings. A great team effort

Work continues to rid the beds on Ray Mill Island of the dreaded winter heliotrope and replace it with something more interesting and wildlife-friendly. Mick and Sheila joined other volunteers digging out the heliotrope and replacing it with donated plants. Mick also tried his hand at fashioning a plant support out of dogwood stems to keep a Spirea from overhanging the path. And a pretty good job he made of it too - every day is a learning day!

Welfare visit for Mrs.

Today's session at the Baby Bank was a productive and peaceful one, with Karen, Carol and Sheila on clothes sorting while Caroline was asked to take on the shoe challenge. We surprised Carol at tea-break with a medal to celebrate her 50th Good Deed, most of which have been at the Baby Bank where she has become an experienced and valued member of the volunteering team.Well done Carol. Go and order your black Tshirt, and here's to the next 50!

4 Goodgymers joined Taskowner Jaren and another volunteer at a very sunny Spital Cemetery for a regular workparty. Maggie and Sue flexed their muscles re-siting two fallen stone crosses on their graves and clearing the grass so that the outlines could be seen. Meanwhile Karen and Sheila cleared the brambles from a large memorial dedicated to the Riley family. Another satisfying session