4 Month Streak
Wed 10th Aug 2022 at 5:45pm
Oxford Report written by Anwen Greenaway
Heat wave weeding
In a nice (if worrying) change from the 2020 trend of getting soaked to the skin and covered in sticky mud at Marston Forest Garden, lately we've been basking in sunshine on our tasks there.
This week's plan was to weed around lots of the saplings and fruit bushes to stop them getting choked by perennial weeds. Bind weed, thistles, brambles and nettles were the main targets, with bonus points for Mares Tail which seems to be having a good year. A power hour of weeding and de-tangling got a lot of the plants de-weeded, uncovering wild strawberries, blackcurrant bushes and many more. We also grabbed a couple of loads of woodchip to replenish the mulch around a few plants.
This week's fun fact courtesy of Bethan: the bindweed flower is a symbol of affection. We almost feel bad for pulling so much of it up this spring and summer.
Weeding hour over we gathered under the oak tree for watermelon, biscuits, brownies and chat before heading off running, walking and cycling to seek shade and/or a bit of river to jump in.
Prize for most enthusiastic GoodGymer this week goes to Cassie the pup, who seemed to have a wonderful evening running around and keeping us all in line.
Congratulations to Holly and Kieran for reaching their 100th and 50th GoodGym Good Deeds (respectively). I failed to spot it ahead of time, but also congratulations to Sophie who did her 10th good deed with us yesterday.
Welcome to GoodGym Oxford Ellen.
Big THANK YOU to Alice for gathering up the runners and leading them on the route to MFG after I got delayed.
Wed 10th Aug 2022 at 5:45pm
Sun 8th May 2022 at 8:30am
Oxford Report written by Trevor
Thanks to all the hiviz heroes this week some new roles for Sarah on finish tokens making sure everyone know their place
Jules and Isla doing their first marshaling with a power up hi five hand and instruments; and Anna first time tale walker (Anna aims to do all of the roles at least once!! Go Anna!)
thank you all there are lots of roles you can try and junior park run and indeed adult parkrun do join us another week
more photos to follow trev
Sun 8th May 2022 at 8:30am
Saturday 9th October 2021
Jules Dann earned their community cape by completing their first community mission.
Jules completed a community mission. Instead of watching TV or lying in bed, Jules was out there making their community a better place to be. For making that choice they have earned the community cape.
Saturday 9th October 2021
Jules Dann been cheered 10 times.
Goodgymers have noticed what Jules has done and have cheered them 10 times. We doff out caps to you Jules.
Sat 9th Oct 2021 at 2:00pm
Oxford Report written by Bethan Greenaway
It is always a joy to go to the Children's Allotment and today was no different.
Alice and her team are busy putting the final plans in place for the grand opening at the end of October and needed a bit of Goodgym pixie dust sprinkled over a fee jobs.
Enjoying some surprisingly hot autumn sunshine we leveled off and membraned some area of the polytunnel in readiness for some new raised beds. The entrance to the site was also spruced up and tidied (all worms disturbed were given a new home in the compost area), kale was planted and compost ferried across the site.
We ended our task with some acrobatic apple-picking and were sent on our merry ways with apples for crumble/cake/juice etc.
Sat 9th Oct 2021 at 2:00pm
Helping the gradual progress of this wonderful space
Read moreFri 1st Oct 2021 at 7:30pm
15 GoodGymmers enjoyed an evening of crazy golf be-FORE heading to the White House by Tap Social for drinks and games.
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