Trees-y does it!

Firstly, a big warm welcome to GoodGym Portsmouth to Judy, Nick and Alison. Lovely to have you join us today. Please tell others about us and share/follow our social media: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Tonight we headed south to St Swithuns School to a task that happened because Maura's son attends the school and she told them all about us. Thank you Maura! The caretaker, Chris, had thought about all the different jobs he wanted us to do and came up with a great selection:

• Tim was up a ladder removing door handles, then sanding them and painting them
• Tony and Nick were digging over a raised beds and then planting an olive tree and a camellia
• Angela donned the Ghostbuster-esque backpack for some leaf blowing
• Sam and Mel scraped the old paint of the gate to ready it for painting
• Maura and Alison cleared the flowerbeds of fallen leaves and swept up
• Jo K and Sophie cut back a rogue blackberry bush and sampled a couple of berries on the way
• Jo C and Judy dug over the other raised bed and Jo rescued a sycamore tree and ran it all the way back to Fratton to take home
• Rob got the indoor task and was put in charge of the Rug Doctor to clean the carpets

Wow - lots of work done as ever by the team. Chris was so impressed that he's invited us back again! We were rewarded with a drink of squash before heading back to the community centre. We missed out on doing too many fitness moves as no-one wanted to leave the task (I think you do it on purpose!). Hopefully Daryl will have some nice ones up his sleeve for you next week!

So same time, same place next week just a different face in charge for one week only! You're heading north the Naomi House to help in the charity shop again - it was great fun last time so back to finish what you started. Sign up here

Have a fab fortnight and keep on running.

Katie :)