What a weekend the Leeds gang had during our first trip abroad. We travelled by trains, ferries and planes to meet up in Amsterdamp (as Sarah named it)!

Park run, galleries, museums, walking tours, canal boat trips, rain, coffee shops, pancakes, apple cake, waffles, cheese, Anne Frank, narrow rooms, winding stairs, espresso martinis, red wine spillages, Indonesian & Italian food and goats cheese with banana!! Phew....we need a week to recover!

What an epic trip, thanks for the giggles, the fun & the fantastic company. Now, where's next?!

Lovely session at Meanwood Farm covering wheel hoeing, compost turning, compost carrying and weeding!!

This was our first task of the year which became fully dark, hi viz and headtorches needed from now on!

There were lots of new faces last night. Welcome to Goodgym and hope to see you all again soon.

Winning TV series from intros were Traitors, Ted Lasso and theres some anime fans in the group.

We had a quick run on the ridge to MVF, what a gorgeous September evening too! Our tasks included the infamous compost turning, filled with the best convos and strategic layering of courgette leaves, compost and hay; some might say it was lasagne-esque. We also trimmed more courgette leaves and cleared tomato plants ready for more spring onions to be planted.

Our Laura has done 200 tasks (yay, well done Laura!) what an achievement! Jason gifted her with a bright, flower garland.

Our Sarah starts filming her film on Sunday! We can’t wait for it to come out on Netflix. Popcorn at the ready! Until next week :)

Tonight was the only Wednesday of the year that we didn't do a task, as we celebrated with our summer social instead. We headed to Beckett Park for a game of rounders which everyone enjoyed and Alice led a game of tag...which was absolutely exhausting!! Joao, Alice & Billy were 'on' and did a good job, but eventually we wore them out!

We cancelled our picnic as rain was forecast (even though it didn't materialise), so we headed to the pub & ordered some very questionable pizza. Was it toast or was it pizza...who knew?!

Thanks for a great night all.

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What a great evening we've had with the GoodGym Leeds gang tonight.

Compost moving, weeding & laying membrane were the name of the game up at OWLS allotments. There were also discussions about ants, cricket, musicals, football & Carole.

We then headed to Heart for a drink afterwards & discussed Sarah's interview tomorrow at BBC Radio Leeds where she'll be talking all things GoodGym. We can't wait to listen Sarah!