As the long summer of 2026 keeps on going, 8 GoodGymers gathered (after some location clarifications) at the adventure playground in Marble Hill Park for our Saturday morning mission. Brand new to the group was Andrew (Andy), while Khin was joining for the second time after Monday's long run to the mission at INS.

We were welcomed by task owner Steph (and her daughter Sophie) who explained the jobs needing to be done - weeding, litter picking, woodchip - and sand-raking and clearing up the mud kitchen.

We divvied up the tasks and got going, enjoying the unexpected warmth and sunshine for the time of year. Little Sophie kept up our spirits with her regular distribution of fruits including raspberries and blackberries.

Before long we had completed our various jobs and gathered for a group photo before heading off to enjoy a coffee.

We were at St Christopher's for our Saturday morning community mission, where we were asked to focus on tidying up the front of the building, chopping back the hedges blocking the view from the office window and sweeping up the autumn leaves starting to fall.

We signed in and headed to the back garden where the tools are kept in the shed, happy to find new brooms even if we weren't so lucky with garden shears and the hedge trimmer was missing its battery.

We got to work and made quick progress chopping (Chris and JP) and sweeping (Africa and Manuela) and were soon filling multiple black bags with cuttings and leaves.

At the end of the allotted time we admired our handiwork, took our group selfie and headed off for a well-earned Saturday.

This evening we met at Mrs T's after having walked ( myself) and cycled (JP) where we carried many items from the garden around to her driveway for collection as the items were not needed [ this included a firepit, barbecue, outside storage box, bike ] . Also we then moved things to keep to be stacked neatly so that we could clear up all the debris from the tree that was causing distress. Mrs T was so pleased and couldn't thank as enough and couldn't believe the transformation. it obviously meant a lot. She mentioned that this was the longest time she had stayed out there for a few years, she had decided to stay out with us, chatting and holding bags open for the tree rubbish.