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Plug Life

23 GoodGymers made their way to help the City of York Council in York.

  • Michal Czekajlo
  • Nick Griffin
  • York runner
  • Leanne
  • York runner
  • Nicola Gover
  • Paul Kelly
  • York runner
  • York runner
  • Mitch
  • York runner
  • Jonathan Fisk
  • Debs Sharpe
  • Vicky Hearson
  • Steve Rice
  • Amy Tew
  • Andy Richardson
  • Vicky Richardson
  • Laura Barrett
  • Richard Parkinson
  • James Sandie
  • Ellie
  • David Jones
 
Saturday, 17th of October 2020
 
Led by York runner

It was a beautiful and majestic sight to see 23 Goodgymers gallop ( /cycle) across the green (and welcome back a few familiar faces) to where Jenny from the council awaited with many maaaaany plant plugs and bulbs. For today was no ordinary day, today we were going to do what many Goodgymers had tried before, to plant them all!

We quickly divvied up the tools and got to work digging in socially distanced teams in between the trees. We had various young plant plugs (which had to be extracted with screw drivers!?!) and handfuls of bulbs which included bluebells, crocuses, wild tulips and twiglets (or the roots of wood anenomes that looked like twiglets).

With valiant efforts not to eat the bulbs which were getting confused with garlic, potatoes, onions and twiglets we managed to plant everything in only an hour! Other highlights included Nikki unearthing a plug of a different variety, passing visits from GG legends Egg, Digby, Huw & baby Noah and by no means least the copious amount of baked goods that seemed to have mater that materialised as incentives to join the task (Big shout out to Babs, Vicky H and Nikki G!)

We then slowly dispersed and wound our ways to other Saturday activities.

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Michal Czekajlo
Michal Czekajlo
Monday October 19th, 2020 10:12

I came an hour later with my kids to show them what we were doing and a lady stopped to say thank you, as she saw us planting earlier. Great work!

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