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

It's Tuesday morning and time to set up the tables and chairs for Age UK. A task swiftly completed by Bethany, Liam & Claire. Just a quick reshuffle required to make room for the chair exercises taking place later in the day. Chairobics for both the wonderful GoodGymers and the clients today!

They say news travels fast, and that's especially true when its being delivered by a bunch of keen GoodGym Yorkies on a Monday night group run 💨

Tonight we gave a warm welcome to newcomer Thet and also celebrated Kirsty being named our GG Yorkie of the month for October after an epic 7 good deeds and a total of 25 since joining in the summer. Well done Kirsty! And thank you to Michael for putting the frame together whilst Ed stalled for time!

It was then off to the task with Stef walking (and unfortunately never to be seen again!), Vicky and Babs backmarking and Ed leading the run out. We then met up with Tracey from the Groves Association before pairing up and heading out to deliver some leaflets.

This definitely wasn't Claire's first rodeo as she had come with a trusty wooden spoon to help her open letterboxes! And whilst I'm not entirely sure what happened in each group I can only imagine they all had an excellent time and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Given how long we've waited for people to return in the past, the teams were given a slightly earlier time to meet back, which seemed to do the trick as pretty much everyone was back on time and there were no frantic phone calls being made to missing teams!

After a quick photo we then headed back to the Ackhorne through the method of Indian file running, with the person at the back continuously sprinting to the front. A great speed workout complete with some added hazards of cars, bollards, gates and curbs! But we all made it back safely, and even heard from the missing Stef, who still gets a good deed for showing up and attempting to find us. (Sorry Stef!)