Sunny Saturday we joined Marilyn at Canbury Community Garden to help with a few chores. Taking on the dreaded bindweeds, doing general weeding around the vegetable beds, topping up the compost heap with the weeds we shredded. and giving the garden a good soak with water fetched from the river. The team filled all the garden containers with more river water ready for the coming weeks whilst keeping an eye on the chicken trying to make a run for it.

Canbury community garden opened in 2016 and very soon after they introduced the first flock of hens.

This morning 4 hardy goodgymers met at Searchlight to start the process of clearing some of the area ready for flax seeds to be sown by the Mencap members at a later date. There was grass, weeds and roots galore, which when working as a team along with Magdelene we managed to shift in the hour and a half alongside chat. A clean up followed along with a welcome cup of tea.

Free vouchers for period products came through the door and after asking my neighbours to donate unwanted vouchers we had a small bundle. Ellie and Rachel popped into Sainsburys to pick up the products and they will be dropped off to Growbaby on the next visit.

One of GoodGym Kingston's favourite missions this evening... cleaning the soft play at the YMCA Hawker Centre!

After a brisk run by the river, we were all excited to get cracking with our tasks. First on the list was to empty the ball pit, give it a deep cleanse and clean all of the balls. Whilst this was going on a second team wiped down the soft play equipment.

We're all big kids really and there were soon a few woops and hollers as Goodgymers slid down the slides and threw balls at each other. Gotta have a bit of fun whilst you work, eh!

When the work was done we took the opportunity to take a few fun pics in the freshly anti-bacced ball pit and all enthusiastically chucked balls at Rachel when she asked for a video. The things we do for Instagram...!

The hour flew by. Lots of fun had but also a whole lot of cleaning achieved and a good few dozen balls saved from behind and underneath the play equipment too!