Louise's first task, get the strimmer from the shed...strike that, chop down the bush blocking the path to the shed with the strimmer. After successfully defeating the bush and the spiders to get the strimmer, task two was to make it back without getting distracted. An hour and a half later, the strimmer was turned on for the last few minutes.

In the meantime, Louise cleared over growth from the wall and the path and chopped down cuttings so that they could fit into bags, whilst Jo cleared an area of lawn from the flowers and thorns which had taken over, and uncovered two garden chairs in the process!

There's lots still to do, but an afternoon has already made quite the difference and Mrs C is thrilled with the progress so far.

On this beautiful sunny morning it was great to get out and help one of the local residents who's garden has been getting her down following surgery.

Diane initially revved up the mower and tackled the overgrown lawn and weeds whilst Jo utilised the step ladder to try and prune back some of the higher overgrowth.

With four metre high thorn bushes, this was no easy task, but we banded together, bore the scratches and managed to make a significant difference (and a shed height stack of trimmings).

Last night we had a classic GG task on our hands - a good ole lift n shift - where we had to move two 1000kg bags of wood chip from the upper playground to the lower play garden at Jubilee Primary.

Let's Get Physical!

Run Leader Joao met AA Yianny, Fi and Tilly at Papa's while we planned to pick up Jo on our way and then meet our two walkers Liz (great to have you back with us!) and Marie-Noelle at the school.

It was a lovely run in the evening sun and we have now pivoted from GG Book Club to summer holz recommendations - Cyprus, Canada and Crete on the list for our runners - destinations beginning with other letters are available ;0)

With a lovely 18 degrees and sunny out everything was perfect and so we divided into two groups, one preparing the playground by weeding and clearing while the other shoveled (and bucketed) wood chip into a wheelbarrow then ran it down to be dumped.

The main challenge was having large steps between the playgrounds meaning we had to carry down the wheelbarrow and large bags but after a ten or so return trips all the mulch was moved and the playground was looking much better as well as safer for the kids to play on.

Juan has plenty more for us to do so we will be back at Jubilee Primary in two week's time - sign up here to get involved: https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/helping-juan-at-jubilee-primary-school-tuesday-s-group-run-a249a9e4-fa1e-4a89-b5db-b95b3c82da05

Big thanks to all and see you next week as we visit St Faith's to see the completion of the straw hall!

Led by Joao - weather making an appearance - thanks to all!!

We brought in some food from Felix project and managed to sort it all quickly for distribution tomorrow.

This was a nice opportunity helping unload and sort the food delivery and Vauxhall CC. I met some lovely people, too.