Five Goodgymers had a lovely morning working alongside other volunteers to clear the beds and plant a new sensory garden at Huntington Library. Lyndsey and Kirsty started out by liberating a neglected quince bush from the weeds (and uncovering hidden treasure in the form of a £20 note!), while Rachel, Jenna and Lucy got stuck in digging over the beds and hauling manure. We watched the expert gardener lay out the plants according to her plan, then helped settle them all in nicely to their new positions, where they will provide bright colouring and lovely scents for library visitors. We were then treated to snacks and a cup of tea - thanks for having us!

Igglepiggle and his friends live in an enchanted forest that is rife with colourful and bright flowers.

The beautiful and bright flowers have gone to sleep for the winter, and Igglepiggle needed to clear the hay from them to help them grow extra colourful next year, so he invited his lovely bright red friends from GoodGym over for some night gardening.

Igglepiggle had arranged some big tarps in bright colours to gather up the grass. Tombliboo Unn, Eee and Ooo raked the grass onto the tarps super fast because they're very strong! Upsy Daisy nearly poked Makka Pakka in the face with her giant rake! Silly Upsy Daisy!

Soon the happy team had a big comfy mound of grass, and after a little sit (it's not bedtime yet!) they dragged it all over to the enchanted forest to spread amongst the trees. This will help them to grow big and tall and beautiful!

Everyone had a lovely time gardening in the dark, and now it's time for Igglepiggle's GoodGym friends to go home to bed. Night night everyone!

We both got an absolute soaking en route to the task so arrived in a very soggy state. My problem was that the hand cream I'd applied before setting out on my run, in combination with very wet hands, meant that it was difficult to get a good grip on the large tables. However, with John's help we soon got all the tables and chairs set out and headed off for a well-earned coffee.

Tonight we started by celebrating Becca's 100th good deed! Amazing work, well done

After a quick warm up Ed headed off to York in Recovery's allotment with an elite group of 8... heres what they had to say

The Hob Moor allotment crew headed out to carry on the work we did last week with the guys from York in Recovery. We picked up Tristan on our way down and met up with taksowner Tracey at the allotments.

The tall chaps, Neil and Michael carried on with trimming the hedge that had been getting out of hand. Nick, Mitch and Tristan got stuck into turning over a raised bed. Carys and Sanjay helped to clear out a compost bay ready for everyone else's off cuts. And George and Ed helped to rat proof (hopefully!) the bottom of the shed by nailing some planks of wood across the bottom.

We made great progress on the various tasks and left enough time for a quick "hill" rep session on hob moor before jogging back to base

Meanwhile Leanne led out the rest of the pack to the bowling club where we did some weeding in preparation for tree planting. We were finished in plenty of time for some running drills and a slice of Lyn's delicious Victoria sponge or lemon cake! They do spoil us!

It was then back to base and a few went off to the pub for a refreshment.

Due to some wasp action we avoided the compost bins today. David and Becca raked the cut grass on the main part of the garden. Barbara, Abigail, Leanne and Laura dug up the grass that had grown in the bed at the end, removed the rotten fallen apples and trimmed the dead ends off the plants. We replanted any bulbs that were dug up and put the grass cuttings onto the compost pile on the on the other side of the wall. There may or may not have been some rotten apple throwing challenges and getting distracted by looking up houses for sale!

The sun always shines on Kimberlow Hill! Well, today it did. GoodGym's very own Tiny Forest was looking spectacular. The leaves are starting to change colour, the berries are bright and many trees are now taller than the GoodGymers. Having planted the tiny saplings two and a half years ago, with a little GoodGym care the trees are doing well and now the forest has thickened up, it is impenetrable. Today's tasks involved some pond care, strimming, raking the arisings, weeding, mulching, gathering windblown/broken tree guards from other trees nearby. Finishing off as always with cake, cuppa and chat. Lovely to see everyone.