On a balmy spring evening 6 GoodGymmers and Fergie descended on arguably North Yorkshire's finest traffic island for a spot of maintenance.

After Maeve had given out instructions to each of us individually, we got to work pulling out the thistles and other undesirable weedy type things. Once the bulk of the weeds were gone we then helped Maeve spread a bit of bark chip around and even got to work bashing a few metal rods into the ground so they were no longer poking out and capable of skewering someone's foot!

Before heading home we had a quick tidy up and posed for the obligatory group photo

we'll be back later next month when the weeds will no doubt have returned!

We had a bumper turnout for group run - not sure if it was due to the sunshine, the painting task or talk of pineapple! We celebrated David's parkrun PB, Barbara's season's best and Carl's good for age time, then warmed up and discussed chocolate bars we didn't like. I wasn't there but am firmly in the anti snickers camp!

Once we arrived at Park Grove, we swiftly got into groups and started work. A small team continued the willow weaving, another small group worked on the blackboards and another clearing up the mud kitchen. This still left a good crew to paint the fence.

There was lots to do but because of our big numbers we raced through and left the area nicely spruced up!

We then had time to test out the new fitness dice. Carl put the group to shame by being the last one going when burpees to failure was rolled!

It was then back yo back until next time!