Mrs P is housebound and lives in just one room, so her view out over the front garden is very important to her. I removed all of last year's flower stems, weeded the beds and took as many Sycamore seedlings as I could find out the gravel area. There are lots of flowers to come, so the garden should look really lovely in a few weeks time

Sheila and I were outnumbered by non GG volunteer Friends of Ray Mill Island today. Whilst Sheila got stuck in to sorting the donated plants by type, I joined a small team moving wooden boards from the paddleboarders round to the nursery.

Next we all relocated to the kiosk and rockery areas where Shoshan had placed plants in pots ready for us to plant them in the ground and water them. With a bit of weeding the Heliotrope it was a very green fingered session.

Welfare visit for Mrs D

Five Goodgymers ventured out into their neighbourhoods in the lovely spring sunshine to pick up litter. Gillian and Rachel enjoyed the beautiful weather and Kay tackled St Peters Rd. Viv and Angela spread the word about GG to three walkers who took an interest in what they were doing. There were also a few smiles from car drivers and 'well dones' !

This was our first Wednesday night GoodGym session since the clocks went forward and it was lovely to enjoy daylight for nearly all of the task!

We got straight to work tackling some weeding, two overgrown buddleia, a wildflower bed, and a very wild rosemary bush.

By the end of the session we'd filled several large green bags with the cuttings from our pruning efforts, and thanks to the rosemary it was one of the best smelling tasks we've ever done!

Christine and Jen arrived at Ray Mill Island at the same time to be greeted by an enthusiastic Tara who needed help transferring some plants from the garden of a nearby resident to the island for replanting.

The exciting news was that we would be paddleboarding to the residents garden and using the paddleboards to transport the plants back to Ray Mill.

Having safely boarded the paddleboard, I had a practice paddle (it had been a while since my last paddle) then Christine joined me at the rear and off we paddled in convoy.

The garden was beautiful and even after digging up lots of plants to take back, you couldn't spot where we had been.

After some strenous digging it was time to paddle back to base and drop the plants off at the nursery.

A Goodgym Mission extraordinaire and being out on the water was absolute peak Goodgyming for me.