Good (May) Day

12 GoodGymers helped Thornhill Square Gardens on May Day with some gardening!

Thanks for coming everyone, it was a warm one but there was some good to do!

In the intro we talked about all the amazing GG Olympics - there is gonna be running, funning and even an Olympic Torch Relay! GG Islington need a big time this year :)

After our intro we headed to Thornhill Square Gardens via a new route, finding a park we've never seen before - cool! We arrived after a 2km run to see what Anna had for us to do - it was lovely to be listening about the local community group in the warm weather and not freezing our socks off on a dark evening. Armed with tools we got going:

Ernie and Danny: Pulled up thristles, roots and cleared an area of debris to prepare the area for some cubs to plant bluebells today. Rhona and Patrick: Weeded the pathways, making a transformational difference in such a short period of time. Frances, Kike and Roz: Planted various flowers and plants in one of the huge beds we help to maintain - pretty! Chris, Alison and Graham: Chopped back thorny plants and dug out countless roots - bigger job than we had in mind. Alex: Did an array of weeding and digging - getting everywhere around the garden.

Huge impact

After 40 minutes we'd made a huge impact in our local community, making the park look sexier basically. Before we headed off we played meet and retreat around the square with team Chris and Patrick winning the prize - PRIDE

Going home a slightly different way we enjoyed Graham's biscuits nom nom nom

Sign up next week when we will be helping Sunnyside Community Gardens - I am away in Bucharest so Polly who's GG Hammersmith and Fulham's Trainer will be in charge.

PB out.