This morning in the sunshine, vegetation was chopped and trimmed to show off flowers or to make the beds more pleasing on the eye to people and bees 🐝 alike

Two GoodGymers Marina and Marie-Noëlle spent the morning weeding and tidying the vegetable beds at Canbury Community Garden. Marilyn and John joined in and shared with us some of their travlling adventures across Europe. Resident Robin and the chickens trotted about the garden enjoying fresh wriggly pickings.
We tidied the hops bed, topped up the compost bins with a couple of wheelbarrows of weeds before heading off for lunch with a handful of freshly harvested radishes.

I enjoyed a lovely bike ride along the river in the sun from Kingston to Twickenham (and very steadily back too) for this month's plasma donation. Giving blood / plasma always leaves me with an enormous sense of well-being. The sunshine helped too :)

Brought and dropped some items for food bank.

Our monthly visit to Full Cycle this evening was less about cleaning bikes and more about a monumental recycling mission.

The main task involved conquering what seemed like endless piles of inner tubes that had accumulated from just about everywhere. Just when we thought we'd rolled up the last of them, two extra boxes mysteriously appeared!

We also shifted a mammoth pile of tyres and worked on the intricate (and surprisingly satisfying) job of removing spokes from wheels.

The sheer volume of recycling we processed made such a difference, as we left leaving some of the floor clear ready for more.... bikes; maybe?! Full Cycle is such a fantastic cause, doing incredible work in the community and we love the variety of jobs we get to help with; sometimes we even learn a bit about bikes 😉. Until next Tyre-time, thanks for having us!

Theo & Petra met Julie on a sunny Sunday for our usual monthly visit at Hogsmill. In full bloom, it was a feast for the eyes. As usual, we tacked hedges but this time, with nicely sharpened sheers which made all the difference. See you next time.