Today, three GoodGymmers met up to help Energy Garden by watering some planters in Hackney Downs Overground station.

Having never done this task before, both Anne and I were glad to have seasoned watering professional Rupesh on our side: He rocked up to the task with a casually slung, but totally colour-coordinated, watering can. He then gave a password ("We're here to water the planters") and a secret handshake (👋🏾) to the station staff to gain us access into the station, before guiding us to the taps and official station watering cans in the office between platforms 2 and 3.

We worked quickly, despite occasionally leaving a Hansel-and-Gretel-esque trail of water behind us as we moved between platforms. I suspect this spillage was in large part due to the lack of nozzles on the watering cans, which resulted in a... "powerful" pour. Luckily, we could use this trail to tell us which train platforms our team members were currently working on. This allowed us to chat together in an attempt to solve one of the great questions of our age: whether Rupesh was a guest star on the "Anne and Liz show", or whether Rupesh was the main character and Anne and I were merely joining him for the day.

The group watering experience also allowed us to simultaneously experience the intense excitement of discovering the tap-that-wasn't-really-a-tap, and to wave excitedly at Rupesh's girlfriend, who was located on a nearby balcony (another guest feature to our show!). I guess lots of waving makes sense for a watering task.

Shortly after waving at Rupesh's girlfriend, we finished the task and celebrated with some Turkish delight (in no way to be confused with afternoon delight), which means that today's episode of the Anne and Liz show (ft Rupesh) most definitely resulted in a happy ending 😇

It was fun seeing you guys, and hopefully catch you soon! 🥳

We had four platforms worth of planters to water after the hottest weather Hackney Downs Station has ever experienced. The planters setup by Energy Garden needed a drink. We met Rohan in the control centre on platform 2 and he gave us the watering cans so we could get on with the job. Rupesh and I went up and down the stairs between the platforms nipping back to the control room to fill up the cans between each trip. There are about 20 planters and it took about 45 mins. Job done 👍

Watered the platform plants and chanced open a verbena and mint plant so rewarded myself with a couple of leaves for a herbal infusion at home.

On a day of torrential rain in Hackney, Goodgym set out to give the plants at Hackney Downs station a drop of water. Despite Clair’s epic fail to get the knapsack sprayer to work, and the sarky comments of passengers “I think they’ve had enough water today” we soldiered on and watered our way across the 3 platforms. Welcome to newbies Laura and Stephanie, hope to see you again soon.