For my last mission of the bank holiday weekend, I was reunited with Oli for a mission in Southwark for Mrs S.

Mrs S looks after her husband, Mr S, who has very poor mobility. When he was more mobile, Mr S used to take care of his garden. Since he's become less able, Mrs S has been doing the bulk of the work. However, she's started to find it difficult to do everything in the garden, and felt that she wasn't able to lift the lawn mower out of the shed to cut the grass back. She asked if GoodGym could help out with this.

After arriving slightly earlier than planned, Oli and I made our introductions and explained a little bit about GoodGym to Mrs S. Like a lot of people I've met, Mrs S told us that, until she saw our t-shirts, she thought that we were called Good Jim. I made my standard (and essential) joke that GoodGym was known as Good James to his father 😎👍

While obviously incredibly impressed by this joke, Mrs S soon showed us through to her rear garden to start work.

Luckily for our hydration levels, the garden was shady, and there wasn't a lot to do (Mrs S obviously does a lot herself 💪). Oli went with Mrs S to retrieve a lawn mower from a shed while I got distracted by a neighbour's cat (fluffy! 😍). Happy to leave Oli to mow the lawn (which he seemed to do as though he were waltzing), I started to snip away at some bindweed in a corner of the garden.

After these jobs were done (and I was shown where the composter was for the bindweed (the cat had distracted me from the first showing 😅)), we finished up with Oli lopping the trail bits off the grass, whilst I pulled some old palm leaves off a tree (I genuinely don't know how else to explain it: they were long, and dead, and I just sort of dead-hung off a couple of them until they fell off the tree).

All-in-all, we probably spent about 30 minutes or so between saying hello and saying goodbye, and we left happy that such a short task will help make it safer for Mrs S and her husband in their garden.

'Til next time, Oli! 😄✌️

Waltzing a-ground pic.twitter.com/2b61Y4BbX5

— Liz Mills (@LizMill52596794) August 25, 2019