Thursday 18th April

Well, what a beautiful spring evening to gather for a community mission!

We met outside the Norwich Train Station at 6pm where we were greeted, by the Station Adoption Garden Volunteers, with a big pile of woodchip mulch, wheelbarrows, buckets and shovels.

The station volunteers explained that thousands of people use Norwich Train Station every year and the rose bed is a beautiful feature. They are proud of the station and Norwich and wanted the rose bed to do credit to both.

Free green waste mulch had been given by Norwich City Council but storage at the station is limited so they needed extra help to get it moved as fast as possible. The mulch had been dropped off in the side car park at the station.

The mission for GoodGym was to shovel the mulch into the buckets and wheelbarrows, then carry the loaded buckets and barrow the mulch across the car park and over to the rose beds, where the station garden volunteers were carefully distributing it around the roses and tulips.

As it was rush hour on this Thursday before Easter, it was a bit of a 'mission' in itself just getting across the road with a wheelbarrow but it went very safely and smoothly indeed - we were done in no time and soon the big pile of mulch had disappeared from the car park.

The garden bed was beautiful and included the most gorgeous pink tulips, so we decided to have our group photo with the flowers.

Some of us then had a little warm-up and jogged home, or part way home, together, capturing some lovely sunset photos along the river.

Little Jack was the star of tonights mission - what a trooper taking his own wheelbarrow, leading the warm-up and running back faster than all of us! Mission Accomplished! Well done everyone.