On a cold, crisp night, six GoodGymmers returned to the Groves after Sunday's task to finish clearing the outside space.

The pallet truck was a novelty that caused some excitement (and a lot of noise). We loaded the soil that had been bagged up from the planters onto the truck over two trips and transported it to suitable locations for reuse.

We also cleared the path, removed some buddleia and bagged up all the branches and vegetation we'd left on Sunday.

A job well done.

Five hi-viz GoodGym Yorkies met on a cold but bright Thursday morning for a litter pick. Bland Lane is a hotspot for litter, especially bottles of alcohol (mostly vodka) and drinks cans and today didn't disappoint. After only 35 minutes we'd collected a whopping 10 bags of very heavy rubbish - with a water pistol included! We left the area looking so much better and were thanked by several passers-by.

Today a hardy bunch met Clive at York Cemetery to do some raking

They have a Victorian infant grave area where 16000 crocuses were planted. They needed the area raked of leaves and twigs to make way for these come spring.

Due to the bumper turnout of volunteers, the task was completed in half the time so many headed off to make an earlier start on the 5th and final task of super Sunday.

This was the third task of the day for some people and quite likely the wettest. Those of us that had done the second task reluctantly left the café and after a short run / cycle were greeted with some much drier reinforcements.

We didn't let the rain stop the fun. Nor in J's case, proximity to even more water without any kind of safety barrier.

After the concrete banking was cleared of weeds, vegetation and moss (and we'd destroyed one of the builders sacks), we set off to the next task slightly warmer but a lot wetter.

Task number Two of super Sunday saw some brave Goodgym folk hit the Groves to clear some moss, weeds and give some lost space back to the residents. We arrived on bike or foot and didn't let the cold, wet (at that point icy) weather stop us. To warm our souls after we finished with a hot drink and breakfast butty at the local cafe before heading onto task three of a super Sunday.