Janet, Keith and Lea joined David in the Jubilee Garden of St Aldhelm’s Church. The task at hand: ivy pulling… a notoriously back breaking task. And today was definitely no exception, judging by some of the moans and groans that were emitting from some of us Goodgymmers🤔😃. As to interesting finds in the garden: enough cans and bottles to have a garden party, unfortunately they were rather empty. 🥴The Ray Ban lookalike sunglasses were unfortunately rather useless as well… no arms🤪! But Goodgymmers certainly aren’t useless: David was very grateful for the hard work we put in tonight! And the little robin, can you spot him?, that came and inspected our work seemed happy with our work as well….

Millie, Sophie, Emma, Harry, Eleanor, Daryl, Roger, Keith and Lea all got together at Langside School where Nick had more tasks for us to do. Cham, new to Goodgym and to all of us, managed to find us and was raring to go. Sylvie arrived “a tad” 🤪 later…. To summarise today’s task: we were cutting, grabbing and tossing! Cutting A LOT, sweeping A LOT, grabbing A LOT, and the best part of it: tossing A LOT!!! The taller than tall hedge at the front of the school was attacked by the strimmer together with Harry and Daryl, with Cham sweeping to his heart’s content. Millie, Sophie and Emma got busy cutting back the rosemary bush and the garlic…making the air fill with lovely smells. At the back Keith started off cutting back major bushes on the edge of the playground. He was joined by the front squad and later on by Sylvie. Oh and not to forget about Roger: our ACE jetwasher, attacking the dirt on another classroom. As photos show: we got an awful lot done; very much appreciated by Nick who rewarded us with some sweet smelling bathbombs. What a Lush smell 🤗 And… Eleanor was proudly showing off her 50 good deeds tshirt! 😃 Thanks everyone for all your hard 💪 work!

Three Goodgymmers, Daryl, Keith and Lea, went to help Emma, a Goodgymmer in the past, who is now a social worker. She had asked us to clear a totally overgrown front garden and use the cut stuff to stop kids getting into the back garden of the house and scaring the person living in the house. Daryl was busy already cutting, when Keith and Lea arrived. Keith got his saw and heavy duty loppers out to get stuck in there. Emma dragged and cut and Lea was totally in her element dragging stuff and weaving all the cuttings into a hedge. To say the hedge resembles the Great Wall of China might be a tiny bit of an exaggeration, but there is no way those blinking kids can get through there now!!! All in all an amazingly good job done and a very happy Emma. She “warned” us: there will be more!! Well, we are not complaining. Thanks Goodgymmers for your hard work.

Keith and Lea had signed up for another four flatpacks to be unflatpacked into two wardrobes. All went smoothly, considering the recent experience gained in this area… only unsmooth thing was: oops, Lea dropping one of the flatpacks on her toes, ouch! At least it was not her thumb that got bashed this time. #job✅

Two Goodgymmers , Keith and Lea, joined 8 other people from Ethical Kitchen Garden to clear the garden area behind St Ambrose Church. The area needs clearing because the group wants to start growing vegetables there for the local community. Pulling ivy, lots of it, digging up rhododendrons, cutting and lopping… we got lots done, but there is still an awful lot more to do! But… that means more tasks for us Goodgymmers, yay!