Having a wheelie good time at GoodGym

6 GoodGymers returned to Russell's garden centre in Baginton on a beautiful sunny day to help with the final pile of shredded Christmas trees that were collected after Christmas to help raise money for Myton Hospices and Pass the Smile for Ben.

This task involved shoveling shredded Christmas trees into wheelbarrows and then transporting them along the paths of a maze to the central area where the chippings are being used to act as ground cover to control the weeds.

Having done this task a few times before we were all starting to feel confident that we now knew our way through the maze without too many wrong turns, until a spanner was thrown into the works... Given the pile of chippings was in a different location to last time we now discovered the most efficient way to get to the middle was to take a completely different route through the maze that we had never used before - who knew!! This task tested our navigation skills as well as our physical skills as we tried to remember the new route through the twists and turns of the maze.

We also discovered the world's largest rake which seemed to be 3 times the size of any rake we had seen before, making the spreading of the chippings once in the maze a piece of cake!

Talking of cake, we then retired to the garden centre cafe where we had a lovely impromptu social talking about sustainability, marathons, air quality, languages and generally put the world to rights!

What a great way to spend a Saturday morning and it was so lovely to meet Archie who returned for his second GoodGym session, showing extra dedication (and thought for the environment) by getting the bus to the task.