Four GoodGymers ventured out on what promised to be a dry September evening. However, no sooner had they arrived at St John’s Court, did it decide to rain! For a few minutes they took shelter in the lobby willing the shower to end: they only had a precious hour to work their GoodGym magic on the outside space earmarked for the evening’s task.

The rain did stop and they set to with much GoodGym spirit. Cutting back the bushes, pulling up the weeds and making the front area of the building look nice and tidy. Such was their enthusiasm that they finished a tad early which allowed them a good old chin wag about future GoodGym tasks and possibilities.

As the evenings are now pulling in, the next scheduled event at St John’s, can you believe it, will be putting up the Christmas decorations! Thanks for a lovely evening all!

We welcomed new GoodGymmer Jo this sunny Sunday morning, at one of our regular and favourite gardens! Excellent teamwork made short work of our task of chopping down Cardoons and then arranging them in the flowerbed, so they can seed themselves over the winter ready for next year's growing. We then moved onto pruning hedges to make a bird box accessible, and help maintain the garden. In between all the pruning, we took the time to admire the wildlife friendly pond, which GoodGym helped to give a new lease of life to earlier this summer. We even spotted a dazzling dragonfly enjoying its new home :) photo credit Meyrick and Kathy. Our host Kathy then very kindly brewed up some 'tea of the garden' for us to enjoy, just as the rain came down! Thanks Meyrick and Jo for your hard work, hope to see you at the next mission!

This was apparently a near record breaking day as far as temperatures go, this scorching summer showing no signs of easing off. It actually reminds me of being on holiday as a child when it's this warm, tugging gently on the threads of the past, images of me running across a beach in the south of France aged ten and full of possibilities.

So I was in a great mood when I arrived at St John's Court, a sheltered home for over a hundred residents, to be greeted by Peta and Anne and instructed on what help they needed for this visit.

We were back out where we had been last time, at the front entrance but this time trimming bushes and tidying up the beds to make the front of house look great.

GoodGymmers Ruth, Emily, Kam and Meyrick were in superb form as usual and we made an enormous contribution to this piece of work in the short time we had.

We are due back there again in September for anyone interested, this is one of our great repeat missions and helps improve the lives of a great many people.