After our stint up at Nover's steps, the group came down to help Barney and Jackie at the berry maze. The weather was still holding up as we had a relaxing de-weeding session. It was Amy's first time at the berry maze, and I'm sure it was no coincidence that she wore headgear to suit the occasion. We spent the hour chatting, sorting out the posts, and flinging weeds into the abyss, whilst Emma got to do her favourite job of pushing the mower around. Great to see everyone out for the double deed day - keep your eyes on the site as there's another one coming up in December!

This Saturday 3 goodgymers descended on the berry maze for a fun job of transplanting strawberry plants that had overgrown a different berry's patch. Sarah and I dug up and sorted between healthy young roots, and those that had gone hard, whilst Dave took the good ones and planted them in a clear patch. We had a good learning session accompanied by the (last bit of?) sunshine. see you all soon!

Time flies, the leaves are turning, and the temperatures are dropping... Only a few weeks ago, we had the hottest day of the year. And how does a good GoodGymer spent the hottest day of the year?! Weeding of course!!! We met for a MEGA weeding session at the Berry maze to rescue (our) precious raspberries from being suffocated by weeds. There where plenty of areas to be tackled so we joint forces with some other berry maze volunteers and clear the most over grown areas first. Sweating heavily in the midday sun and 30 degrees of heat, weeding turned into a full body exercise. This really reminded us what GoodGym is really about - doing good and somehow get fit doing so, if only by loosing a few pounds in sweat that day ;)

well done everyone and apologies for the late report! Sarah

A very bright sunny morning down at the berry maze last Saturday. Barney turned up a little late due to some confusion about start time, but Jackie had us covered and had the tools ready. Dave and I got to work weeding the path, chatting about our upcoming France holidays, when our Frances arrived to help as well.

She found a stray oak sapling that had found itself in the berry maze. Barney's words were 'if a tree is in the wrong place, it's a weed' and asked for its immediate removal. Not to waste a golden opportunity to save this "weed", we decided to take it along to the task at manor woods and plant it there with it's fellow trees. bonus deed for saving the tree I say!

Thanks for coming along, and see you next time!

It was pretty lush Saturday morning, as 7 volunteers descended upon the Malago Greenway Berry Maze to help Barney and Jackie with various tasks.

Alex did a top job in convincing his friend Ollie to come along, as they both smashed the fence driving and wiring task which was desperately needed. It's a tricky job, but legendary work chaps, hope to see more of you both soon!

Dave G, fresh from the northern slopes task, was on a mission to mow the entire maze, which is quite the feat! While the rest of us took to redefining the borders around the maze, Jason perched himself on a ledge to tackle the some tricky weeds, great effort despite his broken ankle, what a champ!

Speaking of champions, Alice did a bonus deed on her way home by delivering flyers for a Berry Maze event on June 3rd. (more to come on that - keep eyes on website!) Nice one Alice!

Thanks for coming along - Great to see everyone! PS - Thanks for joining me on my 200th deed! PPS - Sorry, no pics yet due to website issues - will upload them in the future!

Can you dig it? Well… our task today was to put in some new posts. Armed with special gadgets and ingenuity we dug the holes… then re-dug them when we hit a stone. Phill showed he was a dab hand with the saw to remove the pointy bit of the post, which wasn’t needed. There was even a light bulb moment as Alice saved a bulb (nice one Alice). After cementing the posts in all that was left was a bit of planting and we were done. Time for a post task rest.

Until next time…