7 GG yorkies met at museum gardens to be reunited with the long lost Lionel who we promptly added to the register to make us a team of 8. It turned out Lionel was front runner for Prom King with multiple mentions from the Town Crier (who was doubling as compere) about his programme wielding skills.

The rest of us dispersed in pairs for 'general duties' which mostly included directing people to the toilets.

Jane and Leanne quickly realised that standing too near the toilets meant that they'd be confronted with lots of reports of things that weren't working, so moved away to do a litter pick around the gardens. This led to the opportunity for Jane to teach someone to open their rucksack... Meanwhile Becky helped a lady put up her camping chair while others got fit by helping people with heavy picnic baskets. Tracey was a little bit too pleased to report how much she annoyed people by asking them to follow the rules, but redeemed herself when she and Amy came to the rescue of someone who fell over.

Once everyone was through the gates, Elle set up her picnic blanket and provided a lovely spread for her fellow GGs to enjoy along with the show.

... its paintwork's too perfect.

Four Goodgymers - including special guest James from the south-west, doing his first-ever Goodgym task - spent a very sunny Friday lunchtime sanding and varnishing the interpretation boards and signpost on the Solar System Greenway. This is popular route out of town for many cyclists and walkers, so it was great to spruce up the signage and leave the trail looking a bit neater for users.

After such a hot & sunny spell the raised beds were very thirsty indeed but fortunately even the weeds hadn't been growing so not much weeding required.

everything all cleared up and tidied away!

This months Hartrigg Oaks visit started with the trusty parachute games. Gently easing us in with the big balloon and then moving onto some tiny balls to start the competition.

Next we moved onto chucking balls at Lucy* *well into her head basket which she willingly brought along! We had some competitive throwing but retreated back to the trust basketball hoop once Lucy had had enough of having her glasses knocked. Oops.

We ended with our favourite (and until now) unnamed game with the drainpipes until one of the residents called it The Rolling Stones.

Today we were in room 5 and swiftly set up 5 tables for the weekly age uk social