Eight awesome GoodGymmers got down to Hackney City Farm for some forking, shovelling, digging and shifting as we moved compost across the farm.

The farm is re-building one of its composting areas with some colourful new pallets so we needed to re-site the compost before the next task: building the new composter!

Huge props to Alicia for coming down to her first session and getting properly stuck in!!

Jacqui, Lucy, Alicia and Alice got started on the digging and loading; Sooz and John heading back and forth with the barrows, whilst Emre and Dan got on with re-siting the compost.

Massive team effort, and we’re now more than halfway through the re-siting and the compost is looking gooood!

Went well, got plenty of soup for Mr N. She would like Friday deliveries as they do stew (I think) on Fridays

Ms O's privet had been enjoying the record breaking wet weather and put on a good spurt of growth. Ms O called on GoodGym help to cut it back down to size.

Armed with Ms O's shears and her instructions to 'Cut it low. LOW' loud and clear, I soon had the hedge smartened up. But while the hedge was lower, it still wasn't LOW.

Reaching for the second weapon of choice - the secateurs - it was possible to cut through the taller woodier stalks and get the hedge below the height of the fence.

Ms O was delighted with the result, and we both agreed I'd got it lower than either of us expected.

Great evening clearing up the Regents Canal towpath!!

Amazing to have Sean along for his first GG outing as we met at Britania leisure center and picked our way East down to Mare street.

Filling up 2 massive reusable bags of rubbish along the way!! Brilliant to remove so much plastic waste before it gets i to the water system and plays havoc with the ecosystem. Huge number of empty cans collected which we were able to put in the recycling bins so avoid landfill!

Awesome work Sean!! see you again very soon!!

4 GoodGymers ran and walked there way to Wilton Estate Community gardens to help with some heavy lifting!!

A running lap of London Fields then onto meet Ulus from the community garden. and we got to work!! removing a huge pile of timber, drain pipes out of the garden ready to plant mire community fruit and veg!

Lots of trips and some epic Chuckle brothers impressions as we carried heavy straight planks of wood around a circular pathway!

Great team work and graft got the job done in enough time fir a bonus job of digging out a rouge bush which had sprouted from the lawn!

Amazing to finish task in daylight with smiles all round!!

As Anne and I surveyed our handiwork at removing as much of the Ivy from Mrs A's front wall as we could from ground level as requested, we considered what options there could be to get higher up to attack the ivy that was still attached to the wall from the second floor upwards but was currently (and annoyingly) out of reach.

The suggestion of a cherry picker amused us both, before we ventured into the possibility of abseiling down from the roof or positioning a trampoline and giving that a bouncy try (ideally without any sharp objects in our hands...).

Sadly, with none of these options available to us on this sunny Good Friday lunchtime, we had done as much as we could with the tools that we had, and finished by tidying up the cuttings ready to be taken away.