A bright sunny Saturday morning welcomed 6 GoodGymers to the start of a long weekend at Hampton Hill Junior School. We had been there last month ready for the task but it was rained off, so it was nice to see the weather put in the effort this time.

The task was to paint the school gates, which we had scraped down on a previous visit to rid them of flaking paint and rust. We quickly decided to tackle one of the two sets of gates to see how we got on rather than attempting the two sets in tandem, and we realised this was the right approach as painting all the sides of the railings was a painstaking task.

We had 3 GGers on each side of the gates we were soon making a difference, managing to keep the paint mainly on the gate rather than on ourselves (though on feeling uncomfortable sitting cross-legged for the lower section Chris soon realised he had sat on one of the paint tin lids) and chatting about plans for the long weekend, Suze’s Ride London race tomorrow and (odd non-sequiturs in) favourite TV shows.

At the end of our allotted time we stood back to admire our handiwork and were very pleased with the results. We’re looking forward to a follow up mission soon for the second gate!