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📍Glassworks, Westminster Bldg CF10 1AG
Helping the community centres delivered by the Church
Tue 29th Jul at 6:20pm
Cardiff Report written by Michael
Tonight was a walking group, consisting of Michael and Martin.
It was a straight out and back walk, with no deviations allowed tonight. We were tasked with clearing a wall of the ivy that had over grown and was now encroaching on the public pathway. Helping at the Salvation Army, where we last helped to clear the garden for the young people's summer activities.
It was a good 40 minutes of work from the 2 volunteers tonight, managing to get the entire wall finished.
A brilliant load done, followed by a bit of a catch up afterwards at our start/end location of the glassworks.
Join us next week as we return to (Dyfrig in Grangetown) [https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/group-task-back-to-church-fdd6faea-bab0-4490-9502-4c1ee0dcf4d6]
Tue 22nd Jul at 6:20pm
Cardiff Report written by Michael
What a night of celebration we have tonight as 15 goodgymers, old and new, join to take on the task at the community orchard.
Firstly we welcome our 2 new runners, welcome to the Cardiff crew Evie and Simon.
Then we had our pre-celebration for a very special birthday for Llion, followed by a night of fun celebrations at the flyte club.
After initial greetings and chats, we set off the walkers first on a slightly shorter and quicker route, before Lucy led the runners off through the park on a different route. We had the return of our water rolling barrel baddies, the bowsers, which allowed us to transport 80 litres of water in total at a time. Michael ran with them initially, until we hit the park and then the running challenges could begin. Each runner took a turn of running with a single bowser, and this certainly engaged the concentration as those contraptions had a mind of their own at times.
Our first stop along the way was at the cricket changing rooms, where the outside tap was situated. we picked four people to stay back and fill up the bowsers, whilst the rest ran over to the orchard to meet up with the walkers. Michael gave a quick briefing on the tasks, and a quick overview of the orchard project - which was really looking well settled on just its second year.
We had a couple of tasks tonight, so we split the group up to tackle them,
Michael handed out brown envelopes for the seed collecting, and showed everyone which plants we were collecting from and how to get the most seeds. Our plants of choice were foxgloves and honesty.
Did you know?
The Welsh for foxgloves is "Ffion", remember that next time you meet someone with that name. Other translations are "bysedd y cŵn" and "Maneg Ellyllyn".
After a good half an hour of running back and forth, collecting seeds and Michael eating blackberries from the bushes like a feral animal, it was time to collect everything together, including ourselves, take a group photo and head back. Michael had to leave us at this point to drop off the bowsers at another location so that he could then join everyone for the birthday celebrations and darts.
Thanks to everyone for coming, expect some foxglove planting sessions in the orchard next year thanks to all of the seeds collected.
Tue 29th Jul at 6:20pm
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