On our final group task for the year, we took to the chilly streets of Cardiff and ran, jogged, walked and cycled to our friends at Cwtch Together. Michael was all festive with lights twinkling through his goodgym top,

you're welcome people of Cardiff

The goodgym speaker was also along for the run, finding it's new place fitted to the goodgym bag, the playlist had been found already and was ready to go as soon as we arrived at the task.

Lot's of chatting along the way as we discussed our festive plans, we were also heading for food afterwards so they was also chats about food......mmmmmmmm

The task tonight was helping to clear the grounds, the storm at the weekend had cleared all leaves from the trees - at Cwtch and in the park next door. As soon as the leaves were seen our playful members couldn't help but kick through them.

Michael went inside to get bags, gloves and a light, the speaker was turned on and the Christmas hits started playing as we all got to work. People were collecting leaves into bags, bins and sweeping more into piles. It was like a task that wouldn't end, not to be put off we kept on going with a song along the way and soon the pathway and side of the building were clear and could be seen again.

we totaled 14 bags and 2 bins of leaves in all, thats a lot of bare trees! A quick group photo and it was time to head back for food, Michael decided to keep the tunes going as we made our way for food, spreading the cheer as they went.

We take a well deserved 2 weeks off now, returning for the ever anticipated January Challenge.

See you all soon.

We welcome in December and Winter (depending on whether you're meteorological or astronomical), it was certainly a cold evening, but a nice jog around the City will soon warm us up. 3 met for the active travel from our start location to the Church, with another 2 people meeting us there and then joining us for a walk back.

The task tonight was helping the church to spruce up the grounds, removing the fallen leaves of Autumn, before they become a slushy mushy mess, we also had enough time to go outside and tidy up around the railings, making it much safer for the local residents when walking past. One such resident even came over to thank us for our hard work.

Thank you

We had all the tools tonight for cleaning up leaves, including a fancy scooping device which made light work of the piles of leaves that the sweepers created. Finally on the task was a little bit of weed killing, but this was not going to be done with chemicals - no ruining our land, instead it was done with a nice simple burning tool.

We were soon done and on our merry way back to the glassworks for a quick social and natter, join us next week for our last activity of the year, it's a new charity too. We are also going for food afterwards so if you are coming then please sign up to that.

A celebration of an evening, we say farewell to November group runs, we finish our Christmas Cards for Care Homes, look forward to our games evening after the task and say a festive

Congratulations on your 50th Deed

to our Dylan, welcome to the Black t-shirt club.

The run wasn't as cold this evening as it has been recently, a nice change for us. The task was back in the great office space of Autism Spectrum Connections Cymru. The last selection of cards were put out, there were some charity cards still to fill out and a few plain for those crafty ones in the group. Michael put out quite an array of craft supplies, coloured metallic pens, markers, glue, glitter (edible) and lots and lots of seasonal stamps.

We welcomed back to the group for their second task Rachel, thanks for coming back.

The countdown began, along with the Christmas music - which tonight was a selection from the 80s...including the very festive 'Grandma got run over by a reindeer'. We also welcomed back an original member with their newest addition, Lucy and baby Eliza (our future goodgymer).

As the time passed and we came to the end of the task, we counted the cards and had managed 50 tonight, it was as if the 50th celebrations were meant to be. Our total card count for all of the tasks is an impressive 200, plenty to get mailing to a selection of care homes.

Now we celebrate for the evening with a selection of games and a nice social, thanks all for the festive crafting.

Join us next week, we only have 2 group activities in December so lets make the most of them.