5 GoodGymers were tasked with sanding and varnishing a few slightly sorry looking noticeboards so they could have a new lease of life . These will be put back on to the popular York - Selby cycleway so we needed to make sure the boards looked nice and fresh for everyone to see.

Luckily between the 5 humans and 1 dog, we quickly managed to get the boards sanded and glossed so they look brand-spanking new!

Another night, another midge death squad. This time it was the turn of Bootham Stray allotments to experience a midge swarm of biblical proportions. Note to self, if it's been raining then bring bug spray!

As tonight was well over 6k in total we met for promptly at 6.15 to set the party pace group off, joined by a small GG bike gang. Ed led the remaining GGers after welcoming newcomer Dan and numbering off by naming our favourite flat things in honour of Earth Day. I'm informed that Hydrostatic Bearings are the best flat things ever!

We arrived at Bootham Stray allotments and soon got to work turning over a disused patch that really needed a lot of work. And then the midges came...

I feel ticklish all over - Ben

On one side, Mitch's tool of choice was a 4-pronged spinny thing that he used to twist the weeds together, as if he were eating a bowl of spaghetti. Whilst the rest of the crew, armed with forks and spades, soon made light work of the turf, weeds and roots before tackling bigger things like old guttering and ground sheets.

It was an entirely different vibe over on the other side with Bec spending the night on the tiles whilst Dan got hammered, as the two of them uncovered some old tiling and the head of a hammer respectively.

As the night wore on the midges got the better of us and we called it a day, but not before a group photo and some jaffa cakes kindly provided by the task owner. We then set off back to the Priory Street Centre where Bec learnt that spinning around helps you to touch your toes, and that if you touch a wall with your armed stretched out, then put your arm down, you'll fall just short of touching the wall when you bring your arm back up. Who knew!?!?

Still having to do weekly reports till we are properly paired up. So we met, we chatted, we sorted the problems of the world! All good.

Five GG Yorkies braved the elements to do a pyramid hill reps session with a bonus 800m run at 5k pace at the end. It was a fun, refreshing and a good cardio session.

same Bat time same Bat channel the dynamo duo were on the case as usual dealing out Ka-pow!! & Whamm!! to those meddlesome chairs & tables of villainy

We’ve been seeing each other for several months now and we are hoping to be paired under the new pairings system which operates like the Coach system and avoids the need to write and publish a weekly report. Unfortunately it is taking longer for the IT system to accommodate the changes so meanwhile i will perforce have to continue writing a weekly report. Suffice to say Mr G and I enjoy meeting up each week. The photo this week is of my bluetits nest which now has 4 eggs in it. Mr G and I are following their progress.