The task last night was tree care at Ockwells, but after finding out fairly late in the day that our task owner was not able to make the task, as well as being told there was not enough equipment on site for us to complete the task, the gardeners of the group rallied together and managed to bring along 4 wheelbarrows, lots of spades and weeding tools to make sure we still went ahead. It was a milestone session after all (more on that later) so we absolutely could not cancel...!

It was a beautiful summer's evening and once we had all arrived we started off with a quick warm up of... wheelbarrow races (of course!) We split into two teams and ran 2 laps each of the "track" with team 2 coming in victorious! Jess was our referee and did a fine job of keeping order!

We also welcomed Ben for his very first GoodGym session after he met Amy at a Rotary session. We hope you enjoyed your first session Ben and see you again soon!

Once the warm up was complete, we set off towards the tree care site, which was around a 0.5mile walk/run away. Gillian led the runners whilst the walkers brought all the equipment over. It was a little overgrown and Mandy was keen to dodge the stingers so there were some matrix style moves taking place.

There was a big pile of mulch when we arrived so we assigned roles; some were moving mulch into the barrows, some were delivering the barrows to the weeders, and some were weeding around the living trees to create more space for them to thrive and then to add mulch around them to try and keep the weeds away.

Scarlett said the session reminded her of school PE lessons and Solvita found a mysterious egg/mushroom which we are still trying to work out what it was, Jen did a google lens and thinks it's a type of puffball mushroom. There wasn't mushroom for it to grow with all those weeds around.

After around an hour of tree care and probably around 20-30 trees de-weeded and re-mulched, we assembled back to the car park where we gave Georgeta a huge cheer for completing her 250th good deed. Georgeta said a few words, she was presented with Amy's home made medal and Mandy read out / rapped the poem that Amy wrote for Georgeta's 100th good deed for anyone that hadn't heard it. There was also lots and lots of cake! A HUGE homemade carrot cake that Rachel baked, homemade blackberry "free from" muffins that Sophie baked, coffee truffles that Sheila made and some goodies that Jen bought along. Thank you everyone for your yummy contributions!

Congratulations Georgeta on your milestone and all the amazing work you do for GoodGym, especially with your social visits. You are a legend!

I hope everyone enjoyed the task - you all did a treemendous job!