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.

Five esteemed GoodGymmers volunteered to help York Museum Trust put on another of their parties in the park.

Rich and Pete, being used to a better class of customer, handled the premium gate, scanning and wrist banding the VIPs. This gave Pete ample opportunity to perfect his two finger technique as no one likes it too tight. We hand to turn away one pair who tried to bring a laptop in but they managed to get someone to look after it for the price if a kebab and were soon back in.

Meanwhile Carys and Mitch handled the masses on the main gate, for some reason depriving many of them of their deodorant - perhaps not the best plan. Jenna was in charge of pointing, but later found her GG spot of the night with Patrick Grant (from the Sewing Bee).

Despite many opportunities for mooning, we mostly managed to keep our clothes on (not wanting to create more washing for Joshua's mum), and finished in time to see Self Esteem, where Rich used the cheap excuse of a conga line to fondle Ed who he found in the crowd.

4.15 rendezvous @ museum gardens main gate opted for scanning in punters Hmm @ my 1st ever go I unsuccessfully tried to use wrong end of scanner, D'OH but in 5min i was quite proficient @ this simple task.The day was a sell out so we worked like dogs getting crowd in pausing only for the unalloyed joy of people trying to get glass perfume btls thru security & having to leave a 100ml of Jimmy Choo in the dirt (play stupid games win stupid prizes) Ahem madam your ticket please, OMD were by far the standout act for me with many bands appearing to be tribute acts of themselves but a fun day was had 😁

One Happy Sunday seven psyched up Good Gymers attended the York Health and Arts Mela to promote Good Gym for its physical and mental health benefits. Pills and Thrills are all well and good, but here at Good Gym we believe there's nothing like a bit of exercise in a friendly social atmosphere to improve your well-being. We changed the line up a few times (creative differences), but Vicky was there throughout, keeping the vibe going like a regular Bez. We spotted a few Squirrels, and lots of 24 Hour Party People, including Margaret Wells, Lord Mayor of York. Jason Rose, one of the Councillors for Acomb Ward, also joined us, and raved to first place in our litter picking challenge. Other highlights included a giant chicken, Spiderman, and some unavoidable morris dancing.

A good day weather wise for all to enjoy the fun and focus on all communities, health and wellbeing. The Good gym stand had seen a steady stream of people and thanks to all that manned the stand during the day. The evening task in the warm sun was basically the opposite of setting up but very quickly the GG volunteers that turned up late on with the all the rest of the volunteers and organisers had made light work of the Gazebos .....

more gazebo erecting, moving tables and chairs and just been lovely and helpful

York Mela is ready to go!