Wandsworth

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GoodGym grudge match ⚽

2 GoodGymers made their way to help an isolated older person in Wandsworth.

  • Wandsworth runner
  • Danny
 
Sunday, 13th of May 2018

On the last day of the Premier League season, and with hundreds of GoodGymmers at an away fixture in Bucharest, two of us met for a 9am kick-off to face down the front and back gardens for our host in SW18...

After the recent spate of fair weather, the lawns had sprung up knee-high with a veritable meadow of grasses, weeds and wild flowers. Amy had visited on a GG Mission before, so she knew exactly what to do, and our host beamed seeing a familiar friendly face!

It was GoodGym vs. the two gardens, but we had a ringer on our team - 240v of Swedish talent - “Flymo.” After a quick change of the blade, it roared to life and made light work of everything before it, leaving us to just tidy-up the edges with the shears.

90 minutes later, with the front and back done, and two black bags full for the compost, we blew the whistle for full-time and were on our way.

Report written by Danny


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