How Penny managed to come up with new puns every week for Planet Food is beyond me! But, what isn't beyond this mini GoodGym contingent is the ability to weed and water even in these high midday temperatures! Becky was so efficient that, even with Elle arriving 5 minutes early, she had already managed to untangle the hose and have it ready for the task at hand. Within half an hour they had thoroughly watered the three raised beds and pulled out a basket full of weeds.

all tidied away despite heat

3 glorious GoodGymers set up the tables & chairs ready for the elderly folk to use during their weekly day out. A small task with a big benefit for the Age UK organisers. NB - from next week & over the holidays the task will be a little later at 9am.

We started today's session by saying our geeky interest in honour of Embrace your Geekness day! There were mentions of spreadsheets, cloud spotting and jigsaws to name a few.

We also congratulated the group of goodgymers who completed the 58 mile ultra in the lakes in the heatwave and the group who ran up and down Snowdon despite their race being cancelled.

Mitch then led off a small splinter group to Acomb Library.This is what they got up to-

We arrived at the library not to new raised bed, but old rotten beams of wood. We quickly got to work moving them from the garden and out to the drive. These will now be used for the path at fishponds woods.

After half an hour the garden was left crystal clear.

The remainder of the group headed to New Walk to drag many sacks of grass to the collection point. In goodgym style this was completed much quicker than expected so we headed off for a bit of fun fitness in the form of goodgym scrabble.

Despite stretching it out we still had a nice early finish so a few thirsty folk headed to the pub where in true geek style, Paul showed some strava tricks which got us debating each others' popularity!

Two of us headed over to Woodthorpe for the annual GoodGym Woodfest litter pick.

We arrived with the event still going strong with loads of people sat enjoying the music, sunshine and food/drink. The volunteers had been keeping the site tidy throughout the day so there wasn't much stray litter. People were very grateful to us though for taking their plastic glasses and litter as we worked our way around the site.

The team asked us to help with the bunting as well and we improvised with the litter pickers to get the bunting over a troublesome branch. We also invented a new game of litter picker fencing which will definitely be making an appearance at a group run in the future!

Despite the heat 5 of us helped to rescue some of the thirsty plants at Holgate Community Garden which had been struggling with the heat. Becca, Libby, Ellie and Laura cleared as many of the dead plants out of the beds as possible so it was clearer what needed watering. David went to and fro with the wheelbarrow filling up watering cans and buckets to water as many of the more fragile surviving plants as possible. It was hot!