So Long, Suckers

10 Googymmers skillfully sharpened their tools and ran to lend a hand to the Noel Park Big Local with some hardcore tree surgery (Ok, like getting-out-an-ingrowing toenail- kind-of-tree-surgery rather than posterior-fossa-decompresion-kind-of-tree-surgery but tree surgery all the same)

You got the kind of lovin' that can be so smooth, yeah

(TW: contains a laboured and painful 90s reference. Proceed with caution)

Not content with dueting with rock legend Santana and spending 12 consecutive weeks topping the Billboard Hot 100 charts, Rob Thomas took time out of his chart-topping rock start schedule to make his GGHaringey debut tonight. No diva antics from him though as he air guitarred his way through the job at hand quickly and without any complaints. Super star. Hope we didn't scare you off!

And kudos to Charlie for today's pun. Boom.

A Cut Above

Our Goodgymmers gathered around Dave at Blue House Yard as we all marvelled at the fact that he was planning to run to tonight's task wearing some rather fancy office shoes as he had forgotten his running shoes at home. That shows both commitment and a wanton disregard for potential blisters - Gramps, perhaps unsurprisingly, is a big fan of both.

We ran a couple of kilometres to the Noel Park Estate where we armed ourselves with loppers, secateurs, litter pickers, and refuse bags and we wandered the estate looking for a group of London plane trees that were being crowded by smaller self-seeded trees and sprouts from their root system, colloquially known as 'tree suckers' by those in the know. A team of Goodgymmers started getting rid of the suckers methodically and mercilessly, while a smaller sub-team litter picked after the Chopper Team as we always tidy up after ourselves. We were brought up right, you know? Dave and Julie were in charge of the fancy trolley and made several trips to the park next door to add the fallen suckers to a big pile of garden detritus that Noel Park Big Local is in the process of turning into mulch for recycling as compost within the community. Tasks don't get any more wholesome than that, in my books.

When it looked like we were about to wrap up for the eve, a fitness session was suggested and a group of us did a Waterfall running session while the rest transported the last of the suckers to the park.

We all then gathered for selfies, some impromptu twerking from a Goodgymmer who will remain unnamed, and future shenanigans planning.

Join us next week for more fun and games (and "doing good and getting fit" blah blah blah ;)