Slightly rained on and 10 minutes early, that's how 2 GoodGymers found themselves at the start of this mission. We didn't stay like that for long though, with blue skies and fellow volunteers gradually making an appearance. And just as the hour turned up, so did the task owner with a car full of boxes.

Boxes quickly unloaded, it was time to start the big build. Now, the GG pair hadn't done this for a while, but it was a case of repeating old movements - track after track, under well orchestrated hands, a symphony of curves, connections, bridges and underpasses emerged. One GGer even managed to create his own little eternal loop, where trains never reach the end of the line. How many trains ended up there at the end of the playing session is anyone's guess.

Four goodgymers (including a traveling goodgymer from Bristol – Welcome!) made their way over to All Hallows church hall to help out with a great charity (the All Aboard Club). Today’s task was to create the biggest most complex train track we could – one that Thomas the Tank engine and friends would be jealous of!!

Once we were given the green signal we all cracked on creating as complex a track as we possibly good. There were bridges, junctions, curves and bends – it was amazing. It was so complicated it was literally overload – I mean “Train comes I don't know its destination. It's a one-way ticket to a madman's situation”. Such a great task though. Lots of smiles on the kids as they arrived and started sending the trains around our track. Shinkansen’s making their way around, InterCitys making their way along the west coast hall-line – and poor Billy with 8 carriages slugging his way around! Poor guy! Still, the kids loved it and it was great to see them taking full advantage of the track.

Great task. Looking forward to the next one with this charity.

They say that the only things certain in life are death and taxes but this author would add late trains to that, And today, reality met play as the All Aboard club, organisers of the monthly giant train set build for autistic and ADHD children, were nowhere to be seen at the appointed start time as they were delayed (it wasn't clear whether this was for leaves on the line, the wrong kind of snow or (this author's favourite) following a train that was in front of them). So when the team did arrive the hour set up time was reduced to a mere 40 minutes and now we had to work fast. Fortunately the volunteers are now all experts and before we knew it an extensive track layout had been laid down just in time for the kids to turn up.

We helped set up a giant train set as part of a community event summer party. Two GoodGym members joined some other community helpers. All went smoothly!

Sunday saw a return to one of our favourite tasks: helping the All Aboard Club. The club is an organistion that helps to provide a safe play environment for children with special needs via the medium of a giant train set. Today’s task was made even better by being the first missions for two brand new Good Gym members, so a big welcome to Ali and Daniel.

We were met, as ever, by organiser Richard who put us to work carrying the boxes of track, trains and peripherals indoors after which it was our playtime. Each volunteer gets the freedom to design their own section of the layout with the only caveat being that everything has to join up in the end. So imaginations driven, we soon had a system of loops bridges and stations and before we knew it the hour was up, everything was joined up and the track was ready for kids.

This is a wonderful task as it is a joy to do, provides a great help for the organisers, and the kids who come along love it.

On a lovely sunny morning one GoodGymer, and many other local volunteers, arrived at the Lochaber Hall Community Centre. We were all there to support a wonderful task, helping the All Alboard Club to set up a big train set for children to play with in an ADHD and Autism safe play session!

An extra bit of cardio was required right at the start, as several crash mats and a deflated bouncy castle had been left in the middle of the hall, which had to be rolled up and pushed to the back out of the way. Once that was done, we cracked on with the train track design, throwing in as many crossings, bridges and tunnels as possible to keep it interesting!

After an hour of track building the children started to arrive and have a great time picking out their trains and exploring the network we had built. Well done everyone on a job well done!