Elizabeth

Today I popped to Ms L's during my lunch hour to complete a small shop for her. Her current level of mobility means that she's unable to carry heavier items by herself.

I was pleased to see Ms L looking so well after my last visit to her a few weeks ago, when she looked a little peaky. We exchanged a few bits of news while I clarified a couple of items on the list (as a non-pork eater, I definitely had questions about the variety of sliced ham wanted 😅).

Despite the clarifications, I still spent some time agonising over exactly which packet of ham to get, which I guess is because I'm inde-slice-ive about ham packets (I'll see myself out). Eventually I settled on a wafer thin version that seemed to fit Ms L's requirements, and whose packaging instilled me with the most confidence (it looked medium-fancy 😎👍🏻).

All of the important decisions made for the day, I returned Ms L's shopping and change to her, before trundling back to the office to face some deadlines.

It was a hot one, so we met and the task and took it easy.

After our last visit and failed attempt and pressure washing we manged to get it up and run to further clean areas of the patio

We revamped some planters very which had masses of old dead plants and roots to be replaced with new soil and plants.

Moving an olive tree other established pots we created a screen for the green which will be further enhanced by the sweet peas and strawberries we had planted.

The large pots made way for the grow bags and vegetable planting with courgettes, tomatoes and aubergine's going in.

All efforts rewarded with cake thanks to Liz!

We'll be back in a few weeks to do more preparation for Clean Breaks summer festival.

GoodGym, Sunshine and Digging!

What more can you want!!

Lovely to have a crack group of some seriously experienced GoodGymers to take on a formidable task and welcome first timer Rob to the party!

Helping the speedily transforming Springfield Park with our monthly visit. Taking in one if the best London Views going as we got stuck into emptying 4 tonnes of soil from cast iron flower beds so they can be moved to a new location in the park.

Running the 4k from London Fields to Springfield park got the crew warm and primed for action. Grabbing the tools and cracking on the shoveling.

So much soil to dig, barrow to the woodland then tip out. we hit a great rhythm early and managed to keep the barrows constantly rolling for an hour of top class GG graft!

In perfect timing we got to the bottom with an epic effort complete we packed up and energised by Liz's sweets we bounded back home!

Thank you fir coming out fir a fun task!!

hope to see you at Hackney City farm next week! why not try a social or 2 with a watering task and pub visit on Friday in Tower Hamlets or a rounders social in Clapham on Saturday!! check out tge website for all the details!!

enjoy

Joel

Liz and I spent some time cutting back a lot of the overgrown plants in Mr E’s garden. There were lots of creeping plants growing up his walls that we removed as well as lots of branches from the smaller trees that were blocking the light coming into his home. We cleared the patio area from lots of debris and weeds to give him easy access to his garden. He seemed very happy with the results!

Today I met up with Bella for a mission to help Mr D in Islington. Mr D is housebound, and needed some help in collecting a food parcel from the local foodbank.

After greeting Bella at the foodbank, we chatted about food for a few minutes while waiting for the foodbank to open (I have a long list of dessert places to visit 😁).

There was a slight hiccup after the foodbank opened, as Mr D had not been given a physical voucher for collecting his parcel. However, after we made a couple of phonecalls to Mr D to clarify the exact spelling of his surname, the helpful volunteers were able to retrieve both his voucher and his collection for us 😊

A previous GoodGym runner had estimated the total food at around 45kg. I would not disagree with this assessment! Luckily, Mr D was only a 10 minute or so walk away, so we only sweated a small bucketful as we made our way to his. Mr D and his partner were both very grateful for our efforts :)

Having worked up an appetite, Bella and I beat a hasty retreat to Pophams, as I took the opportunity to cross the bakery off my dessert list 😋

It was fun working with you, Bella. Hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend!