On a balmy spring evening 6 GoodGymmers and Fergie descended on arguably North Yorkshire's finest traffic island for a spot of maintenance.

After Maeve had given out instructions to each of us individually, we got to work pulling out the thistles and other undesirable weedy type things. Once the bulk of the weeds were gone we then helped Maeve spread a bit of bark chip around and even got to work bashing a few metal rods into the ground so they were no longer poking out and capable of skewering someone's foot!

Before heading home we had a quick tidy up and posed for the obligatory group photo

we'll be back later next month when the weeds will no doubt have returned!

We had a bumper turnout for group run - not sure if it was due to the sunshine, the painting task or talk of pineapple! We celebrated David's parkrun PB, Barbara's season's best and Carl's good for age time, then warmed up and discussed chocolate bars we didn't like. I wasn't there but am firmly in the anti snickers camp!

Once we arrived at Park Grove, we swiftly got into groups and started work. A small team continued the willow weaving, another small group worked on the blackboards and another clearing up the mud kitchen. This still left a good crew to paint the fence.

There was lots to do but because of our big numbers we raced through and left the area nicely spruced up!

We then had time to test out the new fitness dice. Carl put the group to shame by being the last one going when burpees to failure was rolled!

It was then back yo back until next time!

Along with Ian from Treemendous, and Miki, Becca, Alistair and I finished off the weeding between the trees, which are looking beautiful, leafy and tall. One of them is even taller than me! We also took turns to level some of the lumpy ground from various excavations to make the path around the forest easier to use. Finally, some of our dogwood is already big enough to need a bit of pruning, to level the growing field with the other, slower growing trees.

Thank you to all the good eggs that came to this task. Sometimes, GGers are the only people for the job - or jobs, as we found out! First we put up the big gazebo and set up tables outside. Then we scoured the lawn and picked up all the pooh! What pooh? Well, rabbit, cat, fox and bird jobs as it happened! No body complained at getting the shit tasks! The Easter bunny had certainly left his/her mark! Abi was let off picking up, due to being 'with child'. She pointed out holes that may cause a trip hazard for the children with visual impairments. 'Shit galore!' exclaimed Abi, enjoying watching us at work! After thoroughly washing our hands, we covered any thistles with picnic blankets. We then sorted out the plastic eggs. The larger ones needed fresh batteries to get their beep back.These were talking eggs! Eggxtra care was taken to lay them in position for little hands to find. Finally we carried the hundreds of chocolate eggs to the swapping stall, where plastic magically becomes cocoa. Marvellous! The Wilberforce House team were so grateful for our help. The sun is out for a fantasic afternoon ahead.

Today we started by celebrating some amazing milestones- Leanne doing 1200 good deeds, Amy doing 300 and Neil 50! They all wore their capes with pride!

We also congratulated David on running an amazing 50km ultra on Saturday (and still able to run tonight), and the many runners who did the Helmsley 10k. We also marveled at Rich cycling back from the lakes!

After naming and numbering off, and saying what we'd do to help the planet in honour of earth day tomorrow, we set off to the cemetery.

We were met by Clive and set to task clearing an area of brambles to make way for tree planting later in the year. After 45 mins of graft we'd made good progress and also uncovered some hidden graves.

To finish the session, the new discs of delight came out which involved doing lots of our favourite exercises. If your disc said hunt your team got to go hunting for eggs. Winners got a creme egg then we headed back to base. We promised Clive we'd be back soon to finish off so watch out for that task.

Another load of bays successfully cleared of their compost by the crack team of Goodgymers after the 4th visit to West Bank Park in just over a couple of weeks

This time Ed took up the role of the man in the skip, helping to lift the barrage of barrows and position the compost where it needed to be

There were definitely some tired legs (and heads) out there today with David having completed an ultra over the weekend, Ed having done the Helmsley 10k and a few people spending a chunk of the previous day in the pub. But we got a load done before a few people headed on to a café for some well-earned tea and cake