23 GoodGymers have supported Friends of Mycenae Gardens with 17 tasks.
Saturday 30th August 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm
Sunday 27th July
Written by Rachel Henry
This morning, seven of us congregated at the coffee shop, most of the group having already good deeded at the junior parkrun (happy 1st birthday Hornfair!)
We enjoyed a leisurely run - much nicer in the slightly cooler weather - to Mycenae Gardens where we met Vic and continued pulling up weeds. Most of them were small but pernicious alkanet and the like but Kerry managed to find a innocuous looking weed, connected to the biggest root I've seen in a while which was making headway on strangling a tree. Satisfying work and makes sense of the title of the report ๐ฅณ๐ช
After a while of weeding, we had a lovely slice of cake and made our way to Pistachio in the park for a nice coffee in the garden. What a treat.
Good luck to Marta on the long run today and Vic on the dog sitting!
On Wednesday we're back at the Memorial Hospital.
Until next time,
Rachel ๐๐๐ผ
Saturday 28th June
Written by Rachel Henry
A lovely session at Mycenae Gardens today as we tackled the ever-determined weeds with plenty of energy โ and a sweet reward at the end!
We were delighted to welcome Sam to his very first GoodGym session โ great to have you on board Sam, and we hope itโs the first of many!
Fuelled by sunshine the team made great progress clearing bed 4 and Arthur did a mighty job finding as many pine cones as he could. A huge thank you to one of the Friends of Mycenae Gardens volunteers for the delicious cake โ always appreciated and very much enjoyed!
After our efforts, we treated ourselves to a well-earned coffee at the cafรฉ, catching up and winding down. A perfect end to a productive morning.
Well done team โ as always, you smashed it! ๐ช
Coming up:
Tomorrow: Join us for a scenic river walk โ a great chance to stretch those legs and enjoy the views.
Next Wednesday weโre heading to the Memorial Hospital for our very first task there, note a 6.30pm start to give us longer to get up that hill!
Until next time! ๐๐ผ
Rachel
Sunday 1st June
Written by Rachel Henry
Yesterday morning, 8 of us gathered at Mycenae Gardens to dig up weeds, lop the low hanging trees and gather a giant bag of pine cones which will be given to some local schools. Well, those that Arthur didn't manage to scurry away in his pockets.
The gardens have recently received a grant to plant up the areas we've been weeding and they are gradually looking more tended and we'll be doing some more planting in the Autumn.
After an hour, we enjoyed a lovely bit of cake and headed off to the pleasance for a coffee.
On Wednesday we're back at St Richards.
Until next time!
Rachel
Saturday 12th April
Written by Cecilia D๐ (She/her)
I gave a small portion of my time to help, and I had an enjoyable day. Gardening makes me happy. ๐
Sunday 26th January
Written by Rachel Henry
Today was a day of many celebrations! We started out celebrating the sunshine from yesterday. A shame it didn't stick around today but we daren't ask too much from good old Britain do we?
Several of our crew had helped out at Hornfair Junior Parkrun, making it a double deed morning. Some of us ran to Mycenae where Fiona and crew met us to divvy up the tasks. We got busy weeding and lopping branches off the trees and replenishing the dead hedge and so much fun was had an hour flew by and it started to blow up a storm so we took this as our cue to go for a celebratory coffee and cake.
We donned our party hats and our happy birthday banner, celebrating GoodGym Greenwich's 9th birthday AND Khai's 50th good deed!
Today we hit 108 good deeds and 1,176km travelled for the January challenge - we've smashed our good deeds target but got 150km roughly to get to our kms target! It's gonna be close!
Khai wrote a poem to mark our birthday which it's fitting to leave us with:
We root for the Parkruns from start to finish
We meddle with deeds as the weeds diminish
We sweep city streets for trash cans and spillage
We run to repair our home town and village
A sail needs wind like a sailor needs spinach
Where would we all be without GoodGym Greenwich?
To all of our friends we cherish and adore
Cheers to nine years and to many, many more!
Saturday 30th November 2024
Written by Rachel Henry
Today, five of us gathered at Mycenae gardens to clear the grass away from the trees and piling up fresh sticks to be added to the dead hedge. ๐ณ
After an hour of blood, sweat and tears the area was looking much clearer and we were ready for coffee and cake! โ
Welcome back to Deanna for her second good deed- lovely to have you join the crew ๐
On Wednesday we're back at St Richards. Next week it's our Christmas do!
Until next time.
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