LEAF FREEZE ZONE

6 Goodgymers helped their local community in Sheffield
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Sheffield

Friday 7th January 2022

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Well the day started out covering the hills, streets and pavements of Sheffield with snow once more. And the evening brought freezing temperatures …. n-ice!

So, just as we were off to remove compacted leaf mulch, which was making local pavements dangerously slippery, the weather was throwing in some additional slipperiness for us. To quote Blackadder - what we were dealing with was as slippery as an eel, on a slippery slope, wearing a slipper ….

Thankfully we were all COVID vaccinated so weren’t having to ice-olate.

Credit to Celine for organising this mission and to all who braved the Arctic conditions to attend - especially those who b-ice-ycled there.

At the end of our work, as we surveyed what we’d achieved, I said to Celine: “snow matter how difficult the conditions, Good Gym will always get the job done”.

‘Icy what you did there” she replied ….



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Rachel
Rachel (she/her)

Sat 8th Jan 2022 at 2:09am

*groan*

Sheffield runner

Sat 8th Jan 2022 at 9:03am

I love it! Great report. And is that picture of the snow from the day?

Linda Cairns
Linda Cairns (she/her)

Sat 8th Jan 2022 at 3:01pm

*double-groan*

Celine
Celine (she/her or they/them)

Sun 9th Jan 2022 at 7:16pm

I love it too! I bow to punning excellence!

Cat

Tue 11th Jan 2022 at 6:15pm

Love this!

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