After a wet and soggy Sloughbottom parkrun, the rain continued in the morning as we helped to clear a new community garden area in Mile X.

A new fence is securing the garden area, but before that can be completed, there was a large pile of DIY waste we needed to clear out of the way, as well as clearing areas within the garden.

As always we got stuck in straight away. I have to say, during all my all years of GoodGym Norwich, I'm not sure I've seen an overgrown area cleared so quickly. We really did make massive inroads.

We hope the project continues to progress and hop to contribute again in the future.

Tonight 8 GoodGymers ran 6km to The Phoenix Centre In Norwich. Although the task leader was unable to attend at the last minute, we made the most of a sunny evening and pulled up weeds along the perimeter walls and flower beds. Shout out to Kate who joined us on her first GoodGym session. After 30 minutes we had successfully filled 3 black boxes full of weeds, without any instructions needed we completed a worthy task. Well done all! An enjoyable Bank Holiday Monday.

Three GoodGymers turned up by foot and bike to release the railings outside the Phoenix community centre ready for a future paint job. After an hour spent pruning, pulling and sweeping the front of the centre was all tidied up and railings that were once entangled in plants that had been thriving in the recent warm sunny, and sometimes wet, weather were visible once more.

The Phoenix Centre was our destination on a lovely bright Tuesday evening. I arrived and was given instructions of what was needed, a tidy up all around the edge of the building which had become very overgrown. I waited the arrival of a new Goodgym member on their first Community Mission. Jayne arrived on her cycle, I was pleased to see she had brought her own tools., as the centre hadn’t got the required equipment needed for this task, result! Introducing ourselves I discovered our new member was the Mum of one of Norwich’s original members Rob who’s a Goodgymer in Leeds now, welcome Jayne Riley mum of Rob, we’ll look after her Rob. After an hour of hard work we admired our handy work, spoke to the Centre admin about emailing us to-return another evening. Photos taken, we said our goodbyes and ran/cycled to our homes

I was the last one to turn up to the Phoenix Hub tonight - I can never leave on time! - but it did mean that Elizabeth gave the orders quickly when I got there and we got to work. Our job tonight was to clear leaves from the entrance of the centre and do some edging which is Elizabeth's favourite job.

We had our first bit of tourism in a while - Andrew from GoodGym Sheffield joined us, and Brad and I were very jealous to see that like Elizabeth, he also had his 100 t-shirt.

We got everything done in 40 minutes which was excellent since it had just started to rain!

Andrew and Brad met at GoodGym Derby around a year ago so we had a catch up over some well-deserved Motherchips and a beer at the Fat Cat afterwards.

4 GoodGymers helped out at a new task to help clear overgrown greenery at the Phoenix Centre.

Andy, Ivo, Beks and Samantha worked hard to make the front of the centre more accessible.

Congratulations to Andy as he completed his 25th good deed!