We gathered at the Old Grey Mare for a rare indoor task. We also welcomed Elspeth who joined us from another goodgym and will hopefully be around for a while- hope to see you again soon!

We worked in two groups cutting strips of paper (some more accurately than others), then writing jokes on the back from a pre approved list. These varied in funniness and were not all grammatically correct, but we stuck to the instructions with only a few minor corrections.

Once a set of 50 was complete, they were bundled up and clipped together ready to be posted to CAMHS for young people in hospital to make paper chains at Christmas.

We managed to make three sets then many of us hung around for a drink and food.

4 crafty GG Yorkies got together to attend a Kinusaiga workshop: the japanese craft of "quilt painting". Our workshop host had some pre-prepared patterns to get us started, as well as some blank sheets of paper for the braver participants to create their own.

• Amy honed in on a maple leaf pattern to celebrate her Canadian heritage
• Jane celebrated her love of camping with a campsite scene
• Ellie was brave and designed her own
• Leanne took a pre-drawn landscape and edited it to incorporate a famous mountain that she recently climbed (but has barely mentioned since)

Our two hours flew by with most of us finishing our artwork. Amy had chosen a more intricate design, which she didnt quite finish, so she grabbed some takeaway fabric to finish it off later.

We stopped off at the shop to buy some craft supplies on the way to the pub so that Amy could finish her work over a celebratory pint.

November's clothes swap was busy but luckily we had a ridiculous amount of GGs out with 8 goodgymmers heloing ensure things went smoothly.

It was Gemma's second task after doing her first at Planet Food and she put in a sterling effort getting stuff onto hangers with Kirsty whilst the rest of us concentrated on getting the clothes out.

Excellent fun as always.

It started as a weeding and bulb planting task, with Libby, Liam, Jane, Becca, Claire and Laura clearing round 6 of the trees and section of the long bed and planting a variety of bulbs in clumps. David sorted some compost and swept the basketball court of leaves. Annabel from the garden group noticed that one of the Rowan trees was dead and at an angle and was rocking. We were concerned about leaving it in case it fell on anyone so between us we managed to push it over and then saw it up. We then went back to the bulb planting (and also cutting down the raspberry canes when Laura got side tracked again). At the end Claire shared some delicious treacle flapjacks with us all.