Children from Busy Bees Nursery graced our activities at the cafe with the most beautiful Christmas rendition and had us all singing and clapping along. We also had extra hands to do good and keep fit.

Pam and Gill attended a chilly All Saints to help prepare some Christmas wreaths for some of the older people on the community. They were soon busy getting creative with moss, pine cones, ribbons and some heart shaped wreaths. Pam was very proud of her wreath, especially as she was told by Fr David that she won the prize for the best looking wreath. Let's hope these brighten up a few doors around the local area.

This week's group run took us to All Saints church which needed a thorough cleaning from top to bottom. The high ceilings had cobwebs unreached for 10 years!

We used a combination of brooms and dusters with extended handles as well as ladders to reach up to the heavenly heights of the rafters and the tall windows, meanwhile down at ground level old markings on the floor from covid times needed a good soak with white spirit and scraping up.

Combined with a bit of vacuuming and wiping down walls and sills with soapy water we left the vast space looking much lighter and brighter, ready for Christmas services!

GoodGym and FoodCycle were on fine form today, with another delicious meal served up to who knows how many guests. The plates just kept leaving the kitchen and hosts kept asking for more.

Martin and Gill were again in the kitchen - their favourite place to be - and the mushroom soup, burgers in buns with sides, and cake and custard all went down well with the guests.

Dee, Moamal and Omar were front of house and able to help keep the plates flying out of the kitchen. Well done team, hard work tonight but it was all worthwhile.

With a large turnout of volunteers from Sundon Park Baptist Church, activities went on smoothly. The three goodgymers present felt a sense of relief.

It was Ding Ding round two on the task of turning an area of turf into new allotment plots.

In round one we made a start and left our mark on the land, but the second attempt brought in some reinforcements, including first-timer Matt and in an hour-long effort we achieved more than double what we managed last time!

With the turf turned over and the roots exposed to the frost it should soon die off and leave us with a nice patch to cultivate in the spring. There's a long way to go before it looks as neat and tidy as the neighbour's immaculate plot but we're on our way there!