0 Month Streak
1 Month Streak
Wed 13th Mar at 6:30pm
Come and help us look after the garden's of our Borough's Municipal Home
Read moreWed 31st Jan at 6:45pm
Haringey Report written by Charlie Linton
It was an emotional rollercoaster for Gramps and GG Haringey this week. Tasks got postponed, there were illnesses, work duties, train strikes, and a football match stacked against the team.
Luckily, ever-faithful Laura from the Friends of Tottenham Green was able to step-in and our task for the night could go ahead. A huge thank you to Laura for accommodating us last minute, and to Gramps for organising that last minute while unwell!
Nurjehan and Veronika got to work with litter picking in a special location around some benches. There was a lot of litter to contend with, but they left it looking spick and span.
Meanwhile, Dan, Šana, and Charlie were armed with spades and an edging tool and were given the task of edging up the grass around one of the footpaths. Over the years, the grass had covered up a thin silver line that marked the edge of the path, but the team uncovered it again and even used the grass and soil we dug up to fill in some tyre tracks.
All that was left to do was take a group photo, tidy away our tools and head on home.
Wed 31st Jan at 6:45pm
Come help make this community space safe for children again
Read moreWed 17th Jan at 6:45pm
Haringey Report written by Euclides Montes
7 Goodgymmers battled with literal sub-zero temperatures to bring a bit of cleanliness to the wonderful bit of goodness that is Tottenham Green.
On Thin Ice... Literally
The cold out there is such at the moment that it brings brass monkeys and their frozen appendages to mind but the good folk at GGHaringey soldier on nevertheless.
Tonight, seven of us heeded the Friends of Tottenham Green's holler for assistance and found ourselves kind of skating on ice rather than running as we made our way there.
Laura, from the Friends Group, asked us for a vigorous litter pick of the site as well as clearing the main path from leaves. There was also an abandoned makeshift bed used by a homeless friend over the Christmas period who had since moved on (hopefully to warmer settings) that needed to be put away.
Our team wasted no time in trying to keep warm by working. We all litterpicked together while Gramps took charge of removing the bedding safely. Ed found some hardcore polystyrene columns, while the rest of the team dealt with the usual mix of half drunk bottles and crisp packets.
Once we were satisfied the leaves were cleared of rubbish, we swept and collected them in bags to save at the back of the site for future use as compost. Currently, they could only be used as ice cubes. On account of the cold weather. I don't know if this is coming across from this report but it was freaking freezing out there.
Aaaaaaanyway, once we were done, we helped Laura put the tools away in her impeccably tidy tool shed, high fived each other, posed for Gramps for a nice pic, and then ran back to HQ in a futile attempt to warm up.
It was cold y'all.
Join us on Monday for fashionable shenanigans at Traid, and on Wednesday for fun with the terrapins at Wolves Lane!
Wed 29th Nov 2023 at 6:45pm
Haringey Report written by Euclides Montes
Eight Goodgymmers danced and pranced as they quite literally brought the house down at Wolves Lane tonight.
Musical Interlude by the Dexy Midnight Goodgym Runners
(Disclaimer: this only vaguely works if you listen to Come on, Eileen while reading it )
Poor old Charlie Ray
Sounded fed up on the ladder
Pulling out nails with his fingers
Mama Rosa cried
"watch out for the rust"
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You've smashed (so smashed)
The Wall (the wall)
Now I must say more than ever
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Too-ra-loo-ra
Too-ra-loo-rye-ay
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So that we can pull out this panel...
Come on, I lean
this way and you
*you lean that way *
And then everything
comes down.
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But what is that smell?
My thoughts, I confess
Verge on that smell
Ah, come on, let me lean
A Symphony Of Destruction
Our Goodgymmers flocked to Wolves Lane Centre once again after our task there last week on a promise of being unleashed on a room with sledgehammers to demolish the space at the back of the main office to create a better control command for this ever-expanding community space.
Denise from Wolves Lane did not disappoint. Upon arrival, she pointed at the pile of tools, she pointed at the wall, then smiled as she put on some sick tunes on the box, and then closed the door and left us to our own devices. And, oh my goodness, we smashed the place up!
It's not every day that you are tasked with the job of breaking stuff but you must grab the opportunity with both hands when given the chance. It's not to say it was all fun and games. I mean, Latoya did dance a lot in between bouts of kicking the wall. And Sam seemed to channel some primal need for catharsis as she smashed the wood panels. And Veronika did smile a lot, as she seemed to be assessing her life choices and deciding whether being a stuff breaker could be a respectable career path. I could go on... But I'm sure you know what I mean.
As the panels came down, and the wooden frame proved to be nothing but a momentary hindrance, we had become a successful wrecking crew, all within a timeframe that would please our resident time-keeper.
Ever a hero, our Dave did a last bit tidying up, bringing up the last of the few rusty nails from the floor so no one has an unfortunate accident in the future.
A couple of selfies here and there, and we all headed home after a proper work out on a chilly, chilly night.
Boom!
Thu 30th Nov 2023 at 12:58pm
Kudos to Sam for today's wonderful pun title 💪🏾
Thu 30th Nov 2023 at 5:30pm
"I lean", brilliant play on words. What a fantastically destructive, constructive task. Veronika stuns in the holey gifs and photos . We smashed it, saws,nails,hammers and a little bit of flashy dancing.
Wed 22nd Nov 2023 at 6:45pm
Haringey Report written by Euclides Montes
6 Goodgymmers howled at the moon as they joined Denise at Wolves Lane for some destructive fun.
Six Hours
Here's a list of things you can do in six hours: you could watch a balloon filled with helium naturally deflate to 50% of its volume (promise never to ask Gramps how he knows this fact); you could serenely witness a high tide recede into a low tide on a secluded beach somewhere nice; you could enjoy Scorsese's Wolf(es Lane) Of Wall Street exactly twice in a row; you could get lost in your kitchen cooking fried chicken and donuts; or like the ardent hero of our piece, the fierce Louise C, you could spend a whole Wednesday afternoon somewhere in Tottenham, completing a supposedly easy Goodgym Mission that threatened to hijack the course of her life for what seemed like an interminably epoch (or, in this case, six hours).
Kudos to Louise for sticking with the kind of mission that would make Ethan Hunt baulk. Just don't ever piss her off when she's holding a crowbar (you had to be there :)
The Wolves Of Wolves (Lane) Street
"The only thing standing between you and your goal," bellows Di Caprio's Jordan Belfort in the Wolf of Wall Street, "is the bullshit story you tell yourself as to why you can't achieve it." Well, he clearly never stood against a wooden wall panel during a Goodgym evening, after being tasked with prising the whole thing apart by a very encouraging and bent-on-destruction task owner
Armed with a pointing hammer, a crowbar, and a couple of hoes (!) that's exactly what our Goodgymmers did. Charlie, Veronika, and Louise demolished skirting boards, wall panels, and whatnot with the wanton hunger of jungle trail blazers. And just to prove Picasso's wonderful axiom ("every act of creation begins with an act of destruction"), this has now led to an invitation next week for a sledgehammer session as we help the centre make way for a brand new room.
At the same time, our Nurjehan and Rosa refilled the beds at the Centre's Palm House with the contents of two industrial-sized bags of compost.
After an hour that flew by, we gathered all tools and put them away, took some selfies, said goodbye to the terrapins and ran away into the mild night with a smile on our lips.
Boom!
More shenanigans next week at the same time - you know where to find us! :)
Thu 23rd Nov 2023 at 11:30am
As always, kudos to Our Charlie too for a top pun for the title!
Thu 23rd Nov 2023 at 1:03pm
I love the opening paragraph. Louise C really is the hero. She deserves all the kudos for yesterday's mission and coming to task. We love ❤️ Louise.
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