Tonight we had a bumper turnout for one of the favourite festive tasks of the year - present wrapping. Maybe it was also the rare treat of being indoors!

Rich led out the group to Park Grove, with Ed in the middle and Laura and Barbara back marking.

Once we arrived we celebrated James' 50th good deed, then set to work wrapping. As some gifts hadn't arrived some of the taller members of the group offered to help put up some decorations instead. Once we all finished, we packed up and fueled up with a mince pie ready for fun fitness.

We decided to make use of the gym and had a few games of dodgeball. The idea was to hit members of the opposite team to get them out. Turns out some goodgymers have quite a competitive streak!

After a few rounds we headed back to base for a stretch and run through of the tasks for the week ahead. We also asked claire to pass on congratulations to Alistair for doing 50 good deeds.

I forgot the time of my own task, so after filling the time with some hill reps (this saving everyone else from the peer pressure / FOMO) I arrived to find Claire, Alistair and Miki hard at work already. Our task was to weed an already mulched area, and clear grass and extensive weeds from the to-be-mulched rest, with cuttings being composted on site for Spring.

Jenna and David arrived shortly afterwards (David having done a tour of tree planting sites until he found us) and we got a big chunk done. Despite David not knowing his strength and almost immediately destroying a claw hammer with his 2-handed frenzy approach.

The lovely Claire had prepared us all sandwiches, sticky buns and coffee so we had a quick break as the sun finally arrived, then did a bit more work before heading off home.