🥶 Tonight was the night for a bumper turnout (37 people!), particularly impressive given the dark and chilly conditions. Nevertheless, we all gathered at the Ackhorne, including 3 newcomers - Tamsyn, Ellie and Julian - who we welcomed warmly. We then celebrated some epic achievements, including applauding everyone who tackled the Dalby Dash yesterday. We also had the cape of glory for not one but three heroes for tonight, we celebrated Amy's 400th good deed, Cara's 300th and Kit's 50th. Oh, and it was Laura's birthday. Amazing stuff 🦸

🚲 Vicky led a cycling group while Ed led the runners to the carriageworkers memorial arch - a particular impressive structure when lit up! (And one that lots of us had somehow never noticed before...)

🌸 There, we were met by the council environment team with tools and instructions to rotivate a (particularly long) strip ready for wildflower planting. Despite some initial confusion as to what we were meant to be doing, we soon got to work with enthusiasm, with our various tools. Jen had particularly impressive technique that led to some very uniform-looking rotivations (not sure that's a word...) Meanwhile, George had very kindly given away the most useful tools so contributed good chat and skipping advice, ready for the fitness session.

💪 Speaking of which, after an atmospheric group photo, we were led down the road (to much grumbling from our local GoodGymmers who were being led further away from home) for our fitness session. Vicky had set up circuits with 6 stations, including skipping, which caused lots of amusement as we admired some very different styles. Running while balancing rings on our heads was another challenge, as was running backwards (which may have led to a minor collision but I believe everyone was fine afterwards!) Sore quads from yesterday's Dalby Dash were starting to show themselves in the adaptations required of some of the exercises!

⏰ Soon, it was time to head back to base (or straight home for some of the cheeky locals, including one who 10 minutes earlier had claimed that wasn't an option...Not mentioning any names, Ed...)

🏃‍♀️ James very helpfully stepped up to lead the runners back while Vicky led the cyclists. Soon, we were back at base, stretching and hearing about everything that's coming up this week.

🍰 Laura and David had kindly brought cake, which was greatly appreciated and enjoyed, both outside and then in the pub. Jenna had done a sterling job lugging a huge number of Disability Week booklets in her pannier, which need delivering. Some heroes took some to deliver but there are still lots more. So if anyone's able to help with this this week, please contact Jenna directly (or Vicky/Ed who can put you in touch with Jenna if that's easier).

👏 What a night! Thanks everyone, for some great good-deeding, and hopefully see you all again soon!

*10 points for anyone who spotted the (probably quite obscure) Beyonce song reference...

Three of us made it to the early morning set up and made sure things were done in good time before either heading to parkrun or more sensibly going for breakfast.

4 crafty GG Yorkies got together to attend a Kinusaiga workshop: the japanese craft of "quilt painting". Our workshop host had some pre-prepared patterns to get us started, as well as some blank sheets of paper for the braver participants to create their own.

• Amy honed in on a maple leaf pattern to celebrate her Canadian heritage
• Jane celebrated her love of camping with a campsite scene
• Ellie was brave and designed her own
• Leanne took a pre-drawn landscape and edited it to incorporate a famous mountain that she recently climbed (but has barely mentioned since)

Our two hours flew by with most of us finishing our artwork. Amy had chosen a more intricate design, which she didnt quite finish, so she grabbed some takeaway fabric to finish it off later.

We stopped off at the shop to buy some craft supplies on the way to the pub so that Amy could finish her work over a celebratory pint.

November's clothes swap was busy but luckily we had a ridiculous amount of GGs out with 8 goodgymmers heloing ensure things went smoothly.

It was Gemma's second task after doing her first at Planet Food and she put in a sterling effort getting stuff onto hangers with Kirsty whilst the rest of us concentrated on getting the clothes out.

Excellent fun as always.

Accompanied by a backdrop of fireworks 5 GGers helped out with various jobs at the Ghosts in the Dark event being held all week at Museum Gardens. Worth checking out if you not seen it before and we helped keeping safe and guiding the publuc around. A really friendly event so although quite a long shift everyone we all enjoyed ghosts and story telling alike and chatting to the visitors...

A huge thank you to Gemma who joined us as a sparkling new Goodgym member. With a whiz, pop, zoom, we soon had the job done. There were a few sparks flying as Mikael accidently compared Becs to Maggie Thatcher (Ouch! What a banger!) But the fire of community spirit still works in this GG team! Gemma