My way or The Highway

11 Goodgymers helped their local community in Brighton
Frances Ruocco
Tara Shanahan
Scarlett Jinman-Dunt
Michael Pirrie
Laura
Rikesh Chotai
Madeleine Sweeney-Baird
Sarah Chan
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Brighton

Tuesday 31st July 2018

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Tonight we headed out along ‘The Highway’ to one of our favourite tasks The Bevy.

First we warmly welcomed Sarah, all the way from Hong Kong for her first Goodgym run and shared the ‘bad’ news that we weren’t gonna be on the tele after all due to a poorly cameraman. And then shared the ‘good’ news that we will be on the tele next week when we visit the Community kitchen!

On arrival at The Bevy Dave the gardener gave us a reminder of some of the reasons why The Bevy is such as amazing space. It’s a community owned pub that does what any good pub should and serves the community. That includes hosting groups such as Friday Friends for a weekly lunch, putting on talks from university academics at Brains at the Bevy and so much more. You can even go there for a pint!

Dave and Jonathan have been doing an amazing job of looking after the gardens, including creating a kitchen garden growing apples, sweetcorn., beans, raspberries, gooseberries, salad, herbs & so much more. Rikesh, Helena & Sarah did a great job of helping Dave in the kitchen garden weeding those hard to reach edges that Dave can’t manage on his own. Meanwhile the rest of the crew were helping Jonathan in the front garden where there is another hard to reach area that needed our attention. Frances, Michael, Sherman & Laura braving the raised bed with strict instructions not to fall off! Madeleine, Nipun & Scarlett tidied up the lower areas with a good sweep and some tender pruning of the planted boxes.

Dave & Jonathan as always were delighted with out work and Dave declared we’d done a month’s work in half an hour! Awesome stuff!

Well done to all on a long run and a job well done. See you all next week.


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Wed 1st Aug 2018 at 1:05pm

Looks great - so sorry I couldn't make it. Up for next week though!

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