Holy Smoke, Churchyard Graves and Burning Car!

5 GoodGymers made their way to help their local community in Redbridge.

: Thursday, 29th of October 2020
: Led by Redbridge runner

Well done everyone for getting out there in the rain today!

Arrival Looks like only Katy and John grasped the concept of arriving on time hehe:) The rest of today's GoodGym crew (Julia, Ruby and Linda arrived a few minutes later but we all found our way to the churchyard to meet Francis (our task owner) to let us in to do some clearing of brambles, ivy and nettles!

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Things to mention

This was a first time visit to this location for Ruby, John and Linda. We hope to see you here again (next session is on the 12th November)!
Linda is fast approaching her 100 deeds!!! A few more and you're there Linda!!!

Reclaiming back memories The team got on with the task of clearing the sprawling ivy, spiky brambles and all sorts of other weeds. It was very interesting to see the memorials and gravestones revealed once the vegetation around them was cleared. It made us wonder about the human stories behind the names and dates and we talked about how life must've been around 1880s and 1900s.

After spending about 45 minutes in the rain (which was totally fine for our hardy GoodGym heroes!), we tidied up the tools, sanitised everything in sight and Francis let us out of the gate to go on our way! We didn't expect what happened next....

Car on Fire!!!! Three of us were walking down Woodford Green road and noticed a huge plume of smoke and as we were getting closer we noticed that a car was catching fire and, thankfully, two people that must've been inside it were safe a distance away! Sadly they were watching their car go up in flames - the fire brigade arrived quickly to put it out! Unexpected drama in Waltham Forest!!!