A still, crisp, Monday night saw a great-sized group of GoodGymers gathering at the Cranbrook Community Centre tonight to help clear a big build-up of leaves.

(Leaves collecting - and staying - on the ground isn’t great for the soil. The leaves also make their way into the centre continuously at this time of year, creating an endless sweeping task for the centre’s regular users).

With the annual AGM taking place tonight, it was a question of us gathering equipment, donning gloves, dividing bin bags and getting on with it.

With teams spread out over all four corners of the little garden, the GoodGymers wasted no time in raking, bagging and binning most of the leaves.

When the AGM finished, Janet headed out to inspect the garden, delighted at what she found.

With our task completed shortly before 8, we headed out to the Mace Street wall to finish with a little bit of flexibility work to get the week off to a splendid start.

As we strolled down the street, the team concluded that The Angel and Crown would be a good bet for this evening’s post-task pint. A cracking end to a lovely evening.

Until next time.

The Friends of Arnold Circus is a charitable community organisation, dedicated to the regeneration and upkeep of the Arnold Circus bandstand and surrounding Boundary Gardens. This is a beautiful raised circular park in the heart of a very built-up area, established in Victorian times.

To raise funds, the Friends set up the Autumn Plant Fair, with the best specialist plant nurseries taking place at the historic site

However, someone needed to take the numerous trays of plants, which arrived in each nursery's van, up the steps to the bandstand area. It meant for an 8:00 start, in order that the fair could open on time at 10:30.

But three early-rising GoodGymers were on hand to assist, making many sorties up and down the steps, getting the plants in place while benefitting from a simultaneous hill-training fitness workout.