Swindon

Community mission

Full STEAM ahead... the museum is back!

5 GoodGymers made their way to help the STEAM in Swindon.

  • Bristol runner
  • Emma Sperring
  • Swindon runner
  • Simon Sperring
  • Gabrielle Newson
 
Saturday, 24th of October 2020
 
Led by Gabrielle Newson

A small but perfectly formed group of GoodGymmers met bright and early(ish) on a Saturday morning to tidy and weed the traverser outside the STEAM museum in Swindon. The museum is back open to the public now after being closed over the summer due to COVID, so we wanted to get the traverser looking spick and span for the public visiting the musuem (and one of our GoodGymmers who looks out on the traverser from their house!).

Our numbers were upped at the eleventh hour by Charles kindly volunteering last minute. Then we collected our tools and got to work - Simon doing a lucrative litter pick, and the rest of us getting stuck into the weeding. Best find of the mission goes to Charles, who found the decapitated head of a doll, in the same place as bodyless bob... it's a toy graveyard!

Tracey joined us right at the end of our task, partway through her P24 Twist challenge (by the time I'm writing this, she finished - well done Tracey!). Just having avoided the rain, we ended the mission with well deserved coffees and hot chocolates.

Report written by Gabrielle Newson


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Emma Sperring
Emma Sperring
Monday October 26th, 2020 08:28

It was great to be at STEAM on Saturday. Fab report Gaby - thank you ☺️

Ivo
Ivo
he/him
Monday October 26th, 2020 09:23

looks brilliant - what is a traverser? πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

Lily
Lily
Monday October 26th, 2020 09:33

Well done guys πŸ‘πŸΎ

Gabrielle Newson
Gabrielle Newson
Tuesday October 27th, 2020 18:40

Thanks everyone! Ivo - it's a "sideways-moving platform for transferring a railway vehicle from one set of rails to another parallel set" (definitely didn't have to google that...) πŸ˜‚

Gabrielle Newson
Gabrielle Newson
Tuesday October 27th, 2020 18:42

In laymens terms - lots of stones between some tracks, where weeds seem to love growing!

Ivo
Ivo
he/him
Wednesday October 28th, 2020 13:44

a very important machine! great to see it looking weed free and able to go about its business!

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Gabrielle Newson
Led by Gabrielle Newson

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