This Saturday morning 5 Goodgymers came along to volunteer at Hillside Gardens with the Friends Of group.

Catherine, Tracey and I had a go at clearing leaves (and weeding the path) in the dog-free area. Meanwhile, Vanessa and Frederic (congrats on getting your first deed in with Goodgym!) had a go at litter picking.

As tasks were completed we began dead-headding some bushes and weeding. We finished off with a coffee before parting ways. A very productive session for the start of the year! 🙌

It was a good turnout today, with 6 of us turning up to help out at Hillside.

I thought that I was (for once) early and had beat the lot, but Lindy and Tracey were already out there watering plants when I arrived!

As soon as we had all arrived Tom gave us all jobs: Lindy and Louise had a go at trimming the hedges by the tennis courts and the rest of us, Tracey, Kaz, Frances and I had the job of watering and weeding by the the trees/hedges we had planted months before.

Three returners showed up to Hillside this weekend. We had Louise and myself, and a surprise last minute sign up from Kaz! The team was hard at work clearing and tidying the paths around the park. Meanwhile, with the help of the other Hillside volunteers we flattened out an area of the allotment garden and erected a new compost bin.

We'll be back in two weeks!

My first trip back to Hillside for a few months and today we were raking up the grass that had been cut during the week.

A sunny spring Saturday and a few chill jobs at Hillside to go along with it - Kaz and Catherine destroyed all traces of weeds in the hedge area just beyond the Children's Centre while Tracey & I were on woodchip duty. We started off shifting woodchip from the pile onto the path on the children's centre, then put some down where the other team had just weeded 💪

6 awesome GoodGym-mers met with the lovely Tom at Hillside Gardens on this lovely sunny Saturday morning and we all split into pairs to get some jobs done. These included weeding around the gooseberry bushes then laying down woodchip, loading up wheelbarrow loads of woodchip for the allotment path, pruning down some dying shrubs that were showing little signs of life at the bases :) and enjoying a cup of tea and double decker bars that Tom kindly offered to us. We also found a Newt, who we named Nigel. He was hiding behind the weeds on the wall, and was very cute. We left him be and covered him up with some leaves to give him back some privacy. All in all a great session - thanks to those who came !