On the weekend (oooops), four GoodGymers made their way to Hollywood Bowl for a social bowling. Although it was an unlimited night with a 3 hour slot, I didn't think we'd stay long enough to see it all through but suprisingly we got very close before we all decided to be sensible and go home but time flies when you're having fun!

We all had our moments of glory and not so much glory. Eva came to just have fun and didn't care about her score... until she started demolishing us and getting a strike. Alice bucked her trend of getting 7-8-9s, by finally getting her first strike which was witnessed by the entire venue (or we were all nattering away and she had to celebrate this glory by herself).

Whilst in the other games, Eva and Alice took their turns to be the best, Adam had the highest scores in the game. So when it was the final round of the final game, he was on 101 points and I trailed behind on 83-something, it was impossible for me to catch up. Unless... I happened to get a strike and then had to follow it up with at least a 9 to pip him to it. Which is exactly what happened - strike and a 9 with a final miss to give me the win with a 102 points 🤭

What a fun night, lets do it again!

'I have maggots in my....' you know the rest!!

Last night, we had a great time at Leeds Grand Theatre watching The Book of Mormon. It was so good, we're all playing the sound track on repeat!

Thanks for a fun night all.

What a great weekend the GoodGym Leeds crew just had!

We headed up to near Appletreewick in the Yorkshire Dale's for a night of camping.

Camping & Clueless: My lack of camping skills were on full display & along with a borrowed, very sad looking tent, we set up our pitch. Adam & Eva were the heroes of the hour as they'd luckily brought a spare that Alice and I could use. Thanks so much guys! We were warm & dry which somehow I doubt we would have been in the other one.

We then headed off for a 5 hour hike around the beautiful dales, the highlight being the waterfall at the Valley of Desolation, some ducklings & the Yorkshire Dales ice cream. Jason managed to get a squelchy boot but luckily we had no other incidents!

We then headed back for some food in Addingham and a camp fire with roasted marshmallows in the evening.

The next morning we packed up (I made a mess of that too) & headed for breakfast before setting off home. Thanks to Jason for his tea/coffee set up in the morning.

Thanks so much to Jubz for his organisation skills & his very thorough spreadsheet & for bringing the fire. You did a great job. And to Katie Lees for her map reading on the walk & to everyone else for their help during Tent Gate!!

Welcome back to Eva, it was great to have you along for the weekend :)

Helen was the superhero, cycling to & from the campsite and just casually throwing in an 8 mile run on Sunday morning for good measure! We're all in awe if you!

Thanks all, until next year...

Tonight we went back to St Stephen's Church Hall to get more of their overgrown garden cleared. We cleared many many prickly plants....how exactly do prickles get on the inside of your gardening gloves?! We got stuck in and cleared a large area, improving what we did last week. It's now ready for planting. Well done team!

4 GoodGymers supported the Kirkstall Valley Development Trust and headed to the St Stephens Church Garden in Kirkstall to help clear up the weeds. We weeded, clipped, and dug up as much as we could. It's fair to say it's definitely a work in progress! We'll go back in a few weeks to finish off.

Well done team 👏

6 of us from GoodGym Leeds headed down to Hyde Park Source tonight to clip hedges & litter pick.

It was great to have two newcomers join us. The weather was perfect & we got 5 bags full of litter & the hedges looked much neater.

Good work everyone!