A gutterly brilliant birthday

2 Goodgymers helped an isolated person in York
Leanne
Paul Kelly
1 / 7
York

Sunday 17th November

Find out about GoodGym TaskForce

Report written by Paul Kelly

Share the love

I decided that the ideal way to spend the morning of my 43rd birthday would be to clean out some gutters, and Mr A delivered the goods with some that were packed full to the brim. So much so that they were turning into a full-on ecosystem of their own (the downside to having a lovely blossom tree in your garden).

Mr A had the right tools for the job, with us being the first to get to use his shiny new folding ladder, and an extra long trowel for getting all the muck out of the gutters. We took turns in scooping it out and dropping it down to the green bin below. A nice satisfying job seeing the gutters restored to proper working order by the time we were done.

Seeing as the sun was out and we were being sufficiently fuelled with tea and Tunnock's Caramel Wafers, we offered to rake up the leaves from the grass too. With that done and the garden looking nice and tidy, we had a bit more of a chat and we were on our way.



Discuss this report
Suzanne Vost
Suzanne Vost (She/Her)

Mon 18th Nov at 9:09am

Happy belated birthday, Paul! Well done with the gutters, both

Dom Tooze
Dom Tooze (he/him)

Mon 18th Nov at 11:39am

I didn't realise you were doing thus on your birthday - amazing work getting it done 😍

Join us on our next session

York

New Year’s Day York parkrun volunteering
🗓Wednesday 1st January 2025 8:30am

Start the January Challenge with a bang and support your local running community

Vicky HearsonDavid BarrettNicola Gover
6 GoodGymers are going - 24 spaces left! 👀