Our regular Tuesday task was replaced with a Monday one this week, a couple of reasons....

1. Global Gardens organisers were not available on a Tuesday currently,
2. We are going away from Thursday to take on the Love Trails festival.

The Weather certainly was different to the last few weeks of tasks, with a wind helping us up the hills on our run, thankfully the rain had stopped and seemed to be staying away. The five of us that could do the Monday arrived ready for the task, 3 runners and 2 cyclists tonight but all with the same goal.

Lets free the fruit tree

The task at hand - to tidy up the outdoor play area, where they hold story time and sessions for children. It had become full of brambles and bindweed, and not very child friendly. Michael had completed this task during a community mission and remembered finding fruit trees, and so the obsession started again. The first fruit tree was freed of the weed and the seating area was cleared of the brambles so that it was safer to sit at, the pile of compost grew as the five goodgymers got to work. There was a few screams as nettles were found and brambles out brambled the work gloves - from Michael at least! Finally, just one last task - to find the apple tree that seemed to be smothered by overgrowth, to work we go. A few cuts here a few cuts there, some more screaming from Michael but eventually it was all worth it as the tree was was again discovered.

Not quite finished, but theres always next time, and at least for now the trees can once again get light and enjoy some of the Summer (when it returns again).

Until next time, Goodgym OUT.