Six GoodGymers got into the Christmas spirit by putting up and decorating Christmas trees at St Christopher's Hospice.

We met the lovely Rebecca (and the St Christopher's cat!) at reception and were taken up to the hospice chapel to decorate our first tree. Kate quickly took on the role of Art Director, planning themes for each tree, while Alison stepped up to the challenge of untangling various decorations, including a REALLY long chain of beads (see photos). Meanwhile, Hannah and Vic put up the first tree as Carla, Rebecca, Kate and I sorted through the decorations. It wouldn't be a Good Gym task without a bit of make do and mend and Rebecca and Carla came up with some ingenious paperclip-based solutions to ensure that even the broken baubles could be attached to the tree. The end result was a snazzy blue and silver number complete with silver icicles... brrrilliant!

We then took the remaining decorations over to the CARE centre where we set to work constructing and decorating our second tree, spurred on by mince pies and Christmas tunes provided by Rebecca. We went for a very classy red, gold AND silver theme this time (because MORE IS MORE when it comes to Christmas tree decorating), then wrapped up with a group photo in front of our creation. Nice work team!

On a very wet Sunday morning we were again visiting the water tower to continue the mammoth task of clearing the base of all weeds, roots and soil. Despite the weather we had 4 Goodgymers ready to go, with two doing their first ever Goodgym mission, a big welcome to Patricia and Sami!

We all met outside and kitted up with shovels, clippers and buckets and headed in to the tower. We jumped straight in to some soil clearing making great progress ripping up the earth and roots in big carpet like rolls. All in all we must have cleared out around 10 buckets of soil, not bad for an hour's work!