Nine brilliant Brent-ers came to the Queensbury, resisted the temptation to watch the England game and duly went on to shift THREE TONS of mulch for Watling dementia garden! What an evening!

Welcome to Luisa who joined goodgym for the first time.

Football

With the pub filled with football fans we quickly got everyone together and then gathered outside for a quick intro and headcount and then we were off. It's only a short run of just over 1km but it needed to short today as we were going to need all our energy for the task.

Three ton bags

We met Lia and Joanne who had also volunteered to help with the garden. They showed us how the main beds had already been mulched but needed more and how the remaining two or three beds were yet to be mulched. We split the group into diggers, carryers and spreaders and got down to business. At first we took up the slow and steady mantle but the spreaders were having to wait for mulch to be brought down so we re-jigged things and got digging that mulch quicker.

Not just mulching

With everyone hard at work Joanne was working on some other areas of the garden and despite the main focus being on the spreading of the mulch the group still managed to get some weeding, digging and planting done too!

Mulch frenzy

With around 15 minutes to go we still had nearly a whole ton to spread and so with a slight frenzy (sorry everyone) we put our game faces on and smashed out that last bag of mulch. We were done in time and even had time to brush up the spilled mulch to ensure that everything was set for the remaining planting and work that was to be done by other volunteers!

We hard a short run back to base and were in time to see/hear Harry Kane score the winning goal for England. The real winners tonight were also wearing red but they'd done so much more than just put the ball in the back of the net.

This garden will be fantastic and so much of it has been down to the hard work of GG Brent so do give yourself a pat on the back.

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Thanks again everyone, Pritesh