Spent Sunday morning delivering library books to elderly residents who are not able to make it to the library but still enjoy reading. I had a gazilliion of books which made my bike quite heavy going up the hills but it provided a good workout! The sun was shining and the roding valley and claybury park were breaming with flowers and greenery! An enjoyable task!

James was leading this whilst Linda enjoys a well earned break. Mike came along and it became a family event doing a community mission. There was a delivery from Sainsbury's and the first order is to make sure all the crates are organised and then put the stuff we can do on the shelves. We were joined by 5 of Linda's helpers, making the job go smoothly. The crates we couldn't put on shelves we loaded up and put in the storage, using a trolley so no backs were destroyed. We finished just before 12, and a job well done

Just a little post task catching up, about holidays, goodgym, AA, work, all sorts

Not sure exactly what makes these branches Special, but who are we to question Marian's judgement!

So when the call came asking Goodgym for some muscle, we were happy to come and meet Marian to sort out the branches she sourced to be delivered to the different locations needed.

Linda, Elegia & James tackled the transfer of the big log to the roundabout, while Peter went to find the other branches to be moved from the green to the gravel garden.

Fashionably late arrival Julia managed to dodge a haphazard trip around Wanstead to try and catch up with the different transports and spend some quality time with Marian instead, 'networking'....

The 2024 account of Wanstead Community Gardeners X Goodgym has its first entry!

With the task changing from one to another to something different, it ended up with a little gardening at Wanstead House - removing old leaves from the flower beds.

Thinking to make life a bit easier, a leaf blower was brought along.... but it would have been useful if a battery would have been brought along as well 🤷‍♂️

Of course little hiccup like that won't put off determined Goodgymmers, so armed with hand tools we set to work. Soon enough it turned out that with all the nice plants 'in the way' we were risking doing more damage than good - perhaps we should try the leaf blowing another day instead.

So off we set on a run around Wanstead, giving James and myself the chance to get to know 1st timer Nikheal a bit better - a lovely gentleman - give him a cheer!

Next week we are planning a little community mission with the Wanstead Community Gardeners (log carrying??) followed by a social, so keep an eye on the website!

40 odd client packages needed to be made, and everyone got stuck on as soon as they arrived. Linda arrived a lot earlier, mostly as she is partly running the foodbank and very keen. With some help from other helpers we got done in just under 2 hours. Just goes to show that many hands make light work