Butter(fly) wouldn't melt 🦋

Plenty of us came out today from across the holy trinity of NW London GoodGym boroughs, Barnet, Brent and Camden, with John along from Westminster on his first GG Community Mission (welcome John, thanks for coming! 👏) our usual task owners Anne and Betty, and even Herts Baseball Club was represented. Apparently they’re based in Hemel Hempstead, but train at nearby Basing Hill Park.

It was nice and bright and warm out, but luckily no comparison to yesterday’s heat wave so we were perfectly able to keep at it, without losing consciousness. After July’s GG visit where we got 20 bags of litter, plus the 36 which Betty collected ALONE during lockdown, the majority of the work that was left to us this time was of the more green-fingered variety. This included clearing weeds and grass from the paving, cutting back trees and bushes that had grown over the paths, and annihilating every buddleia in sight.

Alongside the good range of tools there every time, they’d managed to borrow some wheelbarrows from the builder’s yard next door today, which meant the vast amounts of plant waste both old and new could be efficiently gotten out to the road for the council to collect.

Thanks a lot for coming team and for anyone looking for something similar nearby soon, on Monday GG Brent will be back at Watling Gardens to help them with their err…. gardens. Sign-up here… for that 👍