We welcomed Grant to his first GoodGym deed and what a great one to pick as your first.

We met Will, the Mousehold Warden, who then took us well into the depths of Mousehold Heath (I'm glad he was there as I would have got everyone lost otherwise!).

There were 3x tasks for the team to get stuck into this evening.

1) Pop and Pull out self seeded birch trees (which will be replanted in more appropriate areas of the heath). 2) Remove some cut back gauze bushes (this is where the gauntlet gloves were very much needed). 3) Pull up some early growing bracken.

It was a very sociable evening with a great turn out of people.

We visited Mousehold Heath again. A new task this time (before the Bracken pulling commences in the summer), which was pulling up self-seeded Birch trees amongst areas of the heath where they don't want then to be growing.

It sounds crazy but we must have pulled out well over 100 of them! They have been temporarily been replanted in another area of the heath before they find new homes.

We returned to Mousehold Allotments to continue the work we started there a couple of weeks ago.

Firstly, we have a few mentions:

A big welcome to Vicky, who joined us for her first GoodGym task.

Well done to Sam who was completing her 50th GoodGym deed!

Congratulations to Woody who was completing his 100th GoodGym deed!!

The jobs this week set by Lizzie and Will were: 1) to lay down cardboard on the middle area. 2) load compost into a wheelbarrow 3) transport the compost and spread it over the card board 4) remove as many old ground sheets from the ground as possible

We discovered lots of little frogs in the grass areas, so were extra careful of those. It was great to see that none of us had a fear of frogs.

Everyone did a great job.

This evening we started a new project at Mousehold Allotments, where we started clearing an unused area, overgrown with brambles. This will eventually turned into a community garden area.

A massive cheer to Andy who completed his 100th good deed over the weekend!

14 GoodGymers from Norwich got stuck in at Mousehold Heath to clear an area of Broom and Gorse.

The area we covered is normally clear from when it snows and its all pushed down from people sledging. Sadly as we haven't had any snow in Norwich for a few years, this has started to become overgrown.

It was one of Norwich's best locations, with a stunning view overlooking Norwich City Centre, as you can see from the photos.

This week's Group Run was based at Mousehold Heath, but at a different location and area of the heath to where we normally meet.

A large team of GoodGymers met Will the Warden at Britannia Road, in front of the Prison. The conservation work on this visit was all around that area, which has one of the best views overlooking Norwich City Centre.

We gave a big welcome to two new GoodGymers - Amy & Dan, who were taking part in their first (of hopefully many more) good deed with us.

After a morning of hard work, it was finished with a nice hot drink to warm the cockles.