On Saturday morning 4 GGers from Richmond arrived at Homemead Residential Care home ready to get stuck in to tidying and sprucing up the garden.

However, the changes had been rung at Homemead as new resident Eric had appointed himself Head Gardener and had done a lot of work getting the garden into good shape.

We were introduced to Eric who made it clear in no uncertain terms that our services would be neither required nor welcome… in fact we would be “booted out” in future! He was actually hilarious and a lovely chap…we think 😆

An unexpected start to the evening as four members witnessed then helped with a traffic accident before handing over to police who arrived at the scene with blue lights on!

Thankfully the task itself was just around the corner where the rest of the group had already started digging holes to plant bluebells in the graveyard area that Ken has been working on.

After some careful digging in the dark, the group headed to the nearby Angel & Crown for a Taskforce catch-up, full of ideas and appreciation for what everyone does to make GG Richmond something special to be part of. ❤️

Four GGers arrived with a paw-sitive mindset for the monthly RFS task of making the yard look tidy.

Chris set about chopping back the ivy and using the trusty magnetic sweeper to remove any loose nails lying around.

Rosie and Monika meanwhile were weeding and clearing the greenery near the fence, while Adam, with his trusty litter picker cleared the litter.

This combined with the aid of a fury friend ensured the yard was looking nice and purr-fect.

A very pleasant Saturday morning saw 6 GGers make their way to the Ham Lands for our monthly mission helping to preserve the natural habitat for all the good plant life and beasties that live there.

We were back in the same spot as last month, working to clear the undergrowth and overgrown areas and tackling the many troublesome roots which were riddled through the soil.

We set to work with choppers and loppers and picks and mattocks. The sun started to shine and we were visited by some very friendly dogs, including Pickle who won everyone’s hearts as she wanted to play ball with us all.

After some hard, satisfying work we finally downed tools and went for a coffee (and some treats) at the Swiss Bakery 🙂

Next time at the Ham Lands will be Saturday 8th November: sign up here https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/helping-the-happy-ham-landers-5177c674-7330-4205-9be1-1294fa928609