Goats, pigs, miniature horses and Goodgymers got together on Saturday for a fun time at the farm.

Loading wheelbarrows full of yummy leftovers of pruned plants to drop off in the goat enclosure for some great underfoot food. Meyrick got inside the goat shelter to lay their hay bedding.

Helen fed the huge pig in the next door enclosure who was eyeing up the hay.

Next job was to load up the wheelbarrows with something much less desirable....manure! Jane, Stephen, Emily and Meyrick wheel their manure down to the horse enclosure only to find out that the farm had mislaid the key for the gate! So one by one, they lifted the wheelbarrows of muck over the gates being careful not to get covered! Then off down to the vegetable garden to deposit the manure for the vegetable growers!

Another job done for the lovely team at the farm followed by an enjoying cafe stop for some refreshments :)

The inclement weather continued this week and 8, (yes 8), GoodGymers Turned it On Again to help the Genesis trust with multiple tasks. So it rained again, but conveniently for the rain only for the journey time to and from the mission.

But that was helpful for the three GoodGymers that were weeding the drive outside of the warehouse, probably a little annoying for the others that were given tasks indoors.

Let's have a roll call, Ruth, Kate, Sarah, Helen, Tanya, Emily, Mike and Meyrick, What a turn out, but our kind host ensured we all had a Job to Do.

Sarah, Tanya and Meyrick set about weeding outside and managed to complete all areas designated for this job in the hour we had.

Elsewhere, there was no Misunderstanding as plenty of work was to be done. Genesis Trust don't just do food, they also do books, and a good deal of these needed to be sorted into boxes, GoodGymers Ruth, Kate, Helen, Emily and Mike getting right in and Carpet Crawling as they boxed books and flattened boxes.

Another successful mission, we did so much in one hour, good work team.

(apologies for the really bad Genesis song references in this report)

On a damp, dreary and unseasonably cold Sunday morning, GoodGym returned to what has now become a regular slot at Sydney Gardens. This was always a beautiful park, but the work that has been done to it in recent years has added to it's glory, and I'd like to think GoodGym have had a part to play in that.

In attendance in this glorious paradise (weather notwithstanding), we Cosmo, Richard and Meyrick plus the addition of Cos's sister for today who has a connection to the park in that she knows one of the landscape designers of the gardens.

Last time we were here it was sand, this time it was wood chip. Lighter to transport, thankfully, but there is always a fair distance to transport the goods from depot to required location. Once again we were delivering to the new adventure playground, helping to tidy up the flower beds in the bottom end of the park.

It will come as no surprise that we shoveled and wheelbarrowed our way through the majority of the pile we were introduced to at the beginning of the mission, by our ever friendly hosts.

And would you believe the Sun started to emerge as we finished off, it might not feel like Spring yet but we had a spring in our steps.

April comes, and struggles to commit to Spring, as despite some sunny days recently the temperature has been a little on the chilly side.

In the sheltered courtyard of St John's Court however, we found ourselves in almost mild conditions as four GoodGymmers, Richard, Helen, Emily and Meyrick rocked up to help remove the Winter's weeds from the courtyard outide the dining hall.

This care/retirement home is in a lovely setting by the riverside and it's important that the residents can fully enjoy the outside areas as the weather warms up.

There were a lot of weeds though, but we are GoodGym and we made quick work of removing them with the limited tools we had at our disposal.

With a hope that Spring proper is only weeks away, let's hope the residents can enjoy this area all the better as the weather warms up.

Great Scott! There was a big sense of deja vu when we arrived at Alice Park, in the shape of a great big pile of bark chips sitting on a tarpaulin just outside the gate.

Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads - because the bark chip pile was there to help us finish off the series of paths we've been working on for the past few sessions.

It's our density to finish this path and so at a speed which possibly approached 88mph, we got to work wheelbarrowing chips around the site.

We finished in short order, stopped for a nice chat and a coffee and then... made like a tree and got out of there.

It's finally spring isn't it? What a glorious day of sunshine and actual warmth we had today as six GoodGymmers ventured over to Bathampton. And it was a classic mission too, helping the National Trust who have acquired a large stretch of land from the edges of Batheaston all the way to Morrisons in town.

Sarah, our National Trust Supervisor for the day, greeted us after a short walk from The George Inn. Onwards with vigour went Ruth, Art, Aaron, Emily, Meyrick and Kam, filled with the joys of approaching summer and (lets be honest), this was T-Shirt weather for the first time in an age.

Sarah split us up into two groups. We were all to work in a series of fields that, Sarah explained, were still owned by the National Trust but had a tenant farmer (they were the farmer's sheep not the National Trust's).

Group one set about moving piles of woodchip from where the had been produced from the removed remains of unwanted brambles and other foliage. Group two were tasked with removing the remains of an old fence that had been replaced, but was proving to be stubborn in its attempt to persist alongside it successor.

By the time we'd finished, all posts (metal and wood) as well as the associated tangle of barbed wire that had a life of its own, were history. One particularly obstinate metal rod whose removal we were beginning to thing impossible, was removed with seconds to spare.

Job done, again. We then retired to The George for a drink and a chat.