17 Goodgymers decended onto Oxford St (not quite as busy as the one in London) in Norwich where Somerleyton Gardens is located. With the two main tasks being to maintain the garden and do a leaflet drop, and with there still being a lot of daylight, Goodgymers divided into two main groups with one distributing leaflets to nearby residents and the other groups splitting into two more groups to remove stubborn weeds and bigger thornier plants.

With it quickly getting a lot darker, it suddenly became difficult for those without head torches to spot weeds so it was time to wrap up and bring their bagged up garden waste together and get ready for a group photo! With that done and the rain starting to arrive, everyone went off in their different directions having successfully completed another task. For those running or biking back a long distance, it was going to be a very wet journey back.

Thank you to Mark and Liz for their photographs.

Welcome to James, Jessica and Lena for their first GoodGym task.

Another visit to the Marlpit community garden for GoodGym saw us put to work raking grass cuttings to be used as mulch for trees. We welcomed Alison to her first mission and we soon started clearing cuttings from the orchard. Mark from the garden bet we wouldn’t manage to finish cleaning the first half of the orchard, taking up the challenge we managed that.... and back again..... and the section above...... and the next field..... and then finished with the edges of the flower meadow. Things were livened up by the baby frogs we uncovered with Sam, Elizabeth, Andy and Liz particularly good at finding them. As the light faded we finished up leaving a happy gardener and some startled but unhurt frogs!