Today we welcomed a lovely new GoodGymer, Rachel, to the task. Seasoned GoodGym-weeders, Leanne and Elle, felt a bit strange asking Rachel to take weeds out of the crazy paving only to then plant marigolds in their place! However, in Leanne's legendary words: "We just do what we are told!" As for the selfie, by now, it's just about what everyone expects from Elle's selfie skills. (However, the second photo is one of my favourites of Leanne to date and it's been added to my volunteers' photo portfolio.)

Tonight we were back at the Arts Barge to help them do some jobs to get the barge ready for spring.

We had one group working on the boat doing a bit of problem solving sawing up rectangles of polystyrene to fit the inside of the boat for insulation.

The rest of the gang were tasked with tidying up on land. Michael, Jane and Nick were quick to volunteer to build a fire yo burn unwanted wood. Kit and Ben took it in turns to power wash the stones with a very big hose! Everyone else used various tools to weed between the cobbles.

We finished with a group pic then headed off to Tower Gardens for a Jenna speciality fitness. This involved moving around then getting in different sized groups to make a human sculpture! GG imagination at its best - we had a beehive, a barge, a snail, normal and sophisticated!

It was then back to base and off to the pub for some!

Another busy day setting up Fulford Hall's Community Hub. Soph and Elle had a chance to catch-up after the Easter holidays and were happy to see so many people show up for the coffee and tea morning.

The Community Garden was looking great today with all of the tulips out. The bees were already enjoying the first few cornflowers and we planted some more cornflowers, sunflowers and honesty plants along the beds for them to enjoy later in the year. We also planted parsnips, leeks, fennel and lettuces straight into the beds and runner beans, french beans and courgettes into pots. The broad beans and radishes were already coming up from last months planting. We also tidied up some of the beds and trimmed around the edges. At the end we took some of the pots home to care for on windowsills and under glass ready to plant out later in the spring.

This was part 2 of sorting through moving boxes to help Mr J settle into his home. Mr J and I worked hard to go through boxes of items, with him telling me whether to discard or keep. Mr J is severely visually impaired and is a wheelchair user so I was acting as his eyes, telling him what each item was so he could decide its fate. We made a great team and progress was made towards the task’s completion.

8 GGers made very light work of two tonne sacks of top soil as we raced through the task in order to get to the pub in good time