Tuesday night saw a cracking turnout as the GoodGym Lambeth crew rolled up (quite literally, in the case of several carpets) at Annick’s beloved waterworks allotments for an evening of heavy lifting, heavier furniture-breaking, and general green-fingered good deeds 🌱💪🏼

The task at hand: rug rolling, shelf smashing, and some good old-fashioned digging about — basically an extreme home makeover, allotment edition. Annick’s plot has never looked (or felt) so un-furnished 🛋️➡️🗑️

On the team sheet tonight:

• Ben Margerison — hauling carpets like they owed him money
• Michael Welsh — bringing the muscle and the smiles
• Katie Allan — no stranger to a task, this Lambeth legend just keeps racking them up 🏅
• Tilly Baker Hine — gardening gloves on, ready for anything
• Jo Bowen — allotment royalty for the evening
• Dan — 50 tasks deep and still showing up to demolish some furniture 🔨
• Fi — sleeves rolled up, spirits high
• Rich — new face, instant legend
• Libby Cannon — welcome to the chaos, Libby! 🎉

Between us we shifted more old stuff than a Sunday car boot sale, and left Annick’s allotment looking positively spring-cleaned 🧹✨

And because it was the last Tuesday of the month, work quickly turned to well-earned play — the gang swapped trowels for pints and toasted a job well done at the social afterwards 🍾😊 Nothing quite like bonding over a shared dislike of a particularly stubborn Billy bookcase.

Great work all round, Lambeth — you moved mountains (of carpet) tonight! 🥰

Tonight’s session was a small-but-mighty affair — AA Yianny was off duty, so superhero stand-in run leader Fi grabbed the reins (and the hosepipe) to guide a tight crew of legends: Ben, Tilly, Libby and Fi herself. 💪🏼🍾

With the hosepipe ban looming ever closer, the gang raced the clock to give the allotment one last proper soak, watering the majority of the plot before the taps run dry for the foreseeable. Weeds were also given their marching orders, because nothing says “community good deed” quite like a bit of aggressive shrubbery negotiation. 🧰

Valcie snapped some action shots of the crew mid-spray — heroic hose-wielding poses that honestly deserve a calendar. 📸

Massive thanks to Fi for stepping up to lead in Yianny’s absence — turns out leadership and landscaping go hand in hand! And to Ben, Tilly and Libby for showing up small but showing out big. See you all next time, watering can (or hosepipe, while we still can) at the ready! 🌻❤️