Three GoodGymers came together to help tidy the gardens at Margaret Hill House.

It was wonderful to welcome Helen to her very first GoodGym session. Welcome to GoodGym, Helen! She worked really hard from the beginning. Dave also did a fantastic job, and together we cleared the garden, trimmed bushes and trees, cut the grass and collected garden waste.

We also enjoyed chatting with the staff and residents, including a lovely lady in her nineties. It was great to see everyone smiling and enjoying the evening together.

A special thank you to Dave for taking some old pieces of scaffolding home so they could be recycled instead of being thrown away. It was a great example of caring for the environment.

Thank you, Dave and Helen, for a wonderful evening. It was great teamwork, and I look forward to the next task! 🌿♻️

Tonight's task was an annual favourite: distributing flyers to advertise the wonderful Noel Park Festival.

First to arrive at GGHHQ was run leader Sarah, after having run from home in the heat to get there on time. When no one else had arrived by 6:45, Sarah made her way alone to meet task owner Rich, who was clutching a handful of flyers and wearing a suspiciously clean-looking red t-shirt. Welcome back to the fold, Rich!

Sarah had shared a 📍, and she was surprised by the arrival of Clare who hadn't signed up but just happened to be passing by, and decided helping the community was far preferable to a five minute fitness test run. Dave was next up, and just when we thought everyone else was super late Asan appeared.

We split into two teams of two, one each side of the road, with Rich going to flyer a smaller side street. Soon it turned into a little competition between Sarah and Asan on one side, and Dave and Clare on the other. Dave and Clare managed a narrow victory.

On the next street over, Mark appeared. Rich rejoined the group and now it was three on three. Sarah attempted to get a cat to join, but cats are not team players.

Meanwhile Latoya was somewhere in Noel Park trying in vain to catch up with our merry band. Alas, we were too quick for her!

Soon enough we had completed all of the target streets and it was time to melt away into the evening (quite literally perhaps, it's still very hot out there).