Our much loved and appreciated GoodGymer Tim sadly passed away at he end of June. He grew up in Binsey village and retained a great affection for the place throughout his life.

In our first year of GoodGym Oxford Tim was a regular - coming down each week to see his father in Binsey, then popping out in the evening to join us. I'm sure many of you who were involved early on will have fond memories of Tim.

Tim's ashes were interred at Binsey churchyard on Sunday with tea and cake back at Tim's childhood home in Binsey afterwards. 4 GoodGymers set out tables and chairs in the garden, kept the food and drink flowing, and did the cleaning and washing up afterwards.

Farewell Tim.

Four Goodgymers zipped around the Headington 5 in the Sunday morning sunshine.

A very well organised race and good to see fellow Goodgymer Trev marshalling out in the course and Lorenzo cheering from the side-lines!

Well done all!

It's always a bit worrying when the first instruction of your afternoon canoeing session is 'head to the danger bridge', but as it turns out Danger Bridge is not so dangerous if you're low on the water in a canoe. It actually leads to one of the quietest spots along this stretch of the river - perfect to learn maneouvering skills before heading out along the main river. Turns, stopping, and switching direction mastered(ish) we were let loose on the main river, paddling upstream to Folly Bridge, then a mini adventure through the tunnel under the Abingdon Road, and back down river to the canoe club.

Lots of fun and splashing, only one crash into brambles, no collisions with rowers or expensive-looking boats, no capsised canoes. A successful afternoon out on the river!

If in doubt we'll figure something out!

Nevermind the real GoodGym motto of "Do Good, Get Fit", last night was all about improvising to complete the task. We had been asked to spend our evening giving the Ark-T centre garden a tidy-up, but with the promised tools nowhere to be seen we had to do some rapid re-thinking. Fortunately we all had sturdy gardening gloves, a few of us had brought along some hand tools, and we found a broom (missing it's handle, but we were in no position to be picky!), and so we were able to do a decent amount around the garden.

Lots of weeding was done in the courtyard garden, we cut down 6ft high brambles around the shed, detangled miles of bindweed, and removed ivy from the stone wall. Particular kudos goes to the hardcore GoodGymers who removed large amounts of nettles with nothing but small secateurs and sturdy gloves!

Welcome to GoodGym Sarah, and welcome to GoodGym Oxford Becky.

This evening might have to go down n Goodgym Oxford annuls as the soggiest task yet! Even before we started we all had rain dripping off our noses!

This was a return visit to Marston Rec to mulch and weed saplings which we helped to plant. Greeted by Alistair and Sylvie, we tried to work as quickly as we could to get all the tasks done before we were soaked beyond our actual skin!

We weeded, card-boarded and mulched some existing saplings and planted some more fruit bushes. At least we won't have to worry about the new plants being destroyed by unusual heat like last year.

After a quick celebratory Viennese Whirl to celebrate the birthdays of Fred and Axelle we dashed off, some of us to run (once you're wet, you're wet right?!?) and some to warm up with burgers and jazzy onsies!