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!

Our first monthly afternoon litter pick at Germany Beck ended at the pub with local neighbours and two Goodgymers. A great time was had... which ended in a 'short-cut' through the woods with lots of laughing and double the time back, made for a good walk, but we might need more Goodgymers to supervise us next time!

Five esteemed GoodGymmers volunteered to help York Museum Trust put on another of their parties in the park.

Rich and Pete, being used to a better class of customer, handled the premium gate, scanning and wrist banding the VIPs. This gave Pete ample opportunity to perfect his two finger technique as no one likes it too tight. We hand to turn away one pair who tried to bring a laptop in but they managed to get someone to look after it for the price if a kebab and were soon back in.

Meanwhile Carys and Mitch handled the masses on the main gate, for some reason depriving many of them of their deodorant - perhaps not the best plan. Jenna was in charge of pointing, but later found her GG spot of the night with Patrick Grant (from the Sewing Bee).

Despite many opportunities for mooning, we mostly managed to keep our clothes on (not wanting to create more washing for Joshua's mum), and finished in time to see Self Esteem, where Rich used the cheap excuse of a conga line to fondle Ed who he found in the crowd.