Sheffield

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LEAF FREEZE ZONE

6 GoodGymers made their way to help the Sheffield City Council in Sheffield.

  • Sheffield runner
  • Lucy Wilson
  • Sheffield runner
  • Andrew Waters
  • Celine
  • Lan
 
Friday, 7th of January 2022
 
Led by Celine
she/her or they/them

Well the day started out covering the hills, streets and pavements of Sheffield with snow once more. And the evening brought freezing temperatures …. n-ice!

So, just as we were off to remove compacted leaf mulch, which was making local pavements dangerously slippery, the weather was throwing in some additional slipperiness for us. To quote Blackadder - what we were dealing with was as slippery as an eel, on a slippery slope, wearing a slipper ….

Thankfully we were all COVID vaccinated so weren’t having to ice-olate.

Credit to Celine for organising this mission and to all who braved the Arctic conditions to attend - especially those who b-ice-ycled there.

At the end of our work, as we surveyed what we’d achieved, I said to Celine: “snow matter how difficult the conditions, Good Gym will always get the job done”.

‘Icy what you did there” she replied ….

Report written by Andrew Waters


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Rachel
Rachel
she/her
Saturday January 8th, 2022 02:09

*groan*

Sheffield runner
Sheffield runner
Saturday January 8th, 2022 09:03

I love it! Great report. And is that picture of the snow from the day?

Linda Cairns
Linda Cairns
she/her
Saturday January 8th, 2022 15:01

*double-groan*

Celine
Celine
she/her or they/them
Sunday January 9th, 2022 19:16

I love it too! I bow to punning excellence!

Cat
Cat
Tuesday January 11th, 2022 18:15

Love this!

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