It was a massive turnout today morning, as we all headed down to Leazes Park to help out Urban Green. Today's task was to clear the top of the bushes at the edges of the park boundary. Some of the bushes and ivy was encroaching on the adjacent pavement and we needed to clear it out. Mike was there with his hedge trimmer. With so many of us there, we got so much done! It was definitely an eventful morning!

It was urbangreen's 100th task and we all showed up to Hodgkin park pretty excited and prepared with some surprises. Mike was there on a purely volunteer role but he shared lovely stories about the park as usual. Today's job was to take down the Ivy that had covered a massive section of the wall. It looked pretty satisfying at first. Taking down entire sections of Ivy. But we had to drag it uphill, so it was out of the way and we were all sweaty and out of breath in no time! Our tea/coffee break was extra special as Mike had brought in a chocolate cake and Lucy's mum baked us some lovely cupcakes to celebrate the occasion. We managed to clear off quite a lot of Ivy. All in all a very exciting task and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

First of all, it was lovely meeting @Albane, who was on her first ever goodgym community mission, and @Florence, who was on her second task. Hope the weather didn't put you off. Today's task was extremely satisfying as we were given loppers and shears to get some overgrown hedges in control. If you are currently upset at someone, maybe a co-worker, a partner, a delivery guy, who delivered your parcel to someone else and only sent you pictures of someone's feet with slippers on, so you now have to go around the neighborhood like Prince Charming looking for Cinderella!...you get the gist...just imagine their face in the hedges and keep lopping and shearing!! With a much needed coffee break in between, 2 hours went by pretty quickly and the hedges looked pretty good. Mike even had to make a skip run in between! I only have before pictures of one section because I honestly didn't think we would get so much done!!