Abbey Mondays

Ten awesome people came down to The Queensbury on another super-hot Monday, this time to help out at Abbey Community Centre. No amount of ball-games are going to stop these amazing goodgym-ers from doing good in their community and so we ignored the tennis and the football and went for a run!

Hello and welcome to Tom who usually runs in Hammersmith and Fulham but was over this way for a spot of GG Tourism - we hope you enjoyed it.

Tonight we were off to Abbey Community Centre, they're down in Kilburn (and technically in Camden) and do an incredible job providing services to their local area to residents young and old. They have a beautiful community garden and our job tonight was to give it a good watering.

GG Olympians

After a quick intro - congrats to our GG Olympics participants - we set off only for Karen to have a twinge in her calf. We decided it would be better if she didn't force a run so unfortunately she had to head home - we all hope it's just a minor injury and you're back with us asap Karen!

We took a slightly different route to the centre today but it felt a more flowing run than usual and we still didn't avoid the inclines but no-one seemed to mind as much today. Once we were at the centre Simone greeted us and provided some much needed water. Once we had been watered we headed to the garden.

Stinky Butt

Armed with various watering cans and buckets we set about watering the thirsty plants. We started off filling our implements with water from the two water butts in the garden but some of the water was just a little bit too smelly so we switched to using the amazing expandable hose to fill up! With my cunning plan to not actually use the hose for watering we slowly but surely got the garden watered and even got to deadheading some of the plants (top job Lucy!).

Time soon caught up with us and with everything done we said our goodbyes to Simone and then headed back to base.

A lovely evening in the sun, great job by everyone - thank you. After our stretch we said our goodbyes and a few of us stayed for a drink, watched poor Japan go out of the World Cup in injury time and toasted Deborah for her impending nuptials this weekend - good luck!

Next week we are off to Stonebridge to work on the section of canal - it's just over 4km and the weather is set to be just as hot. Sign up here - see you then!

Cheers, Pritesh

p.s. Thanks to Claire for the great pun!