Our second week back with Cwtch Together, helping them with the move around.

6 joggers and 7 walkers, made their ways to the wonderful charity. There was talk of the weekend, where some of us had gone to experience the Butetown festival. The conversations of Xmas also came up, but only for planning of our party, and even our 10th birthday celebrations next May.

Once at the hall we were welcomed by Sarah, back in between her Bon Jovi tours.

Our tasks for the evening, to move the items moved last week into there new store room. A group in the store was sorting items into groups making them easier to find for activities. We had a couple outside, weeding the path and finally, a group washing and drying a couple of boxes of toys.

Time flew by, even Michael lost track whilst helping drying toys. Lucy and Emily took to the Blue Raz dip and lick, ending with their blue tongues and lips.

Smurfs anyone?

Another wonderful task, ending with a quick conversation about Halloween and if our annual fancy dress run could be to Cwtch again - watch this space.
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Our first part of a two part mission, we were called to action for the biggest task at Cwtch Together yet.

But first..... 4 joggers, 2 walking group, 2 cycling and 3 more walking from home. This was our 11 goodgymers for the evening, and you were all welcome and very much needed.

The task at hand, clearing an entire store room.... Sarah (organiser) stop buying things! All items had to be moved out to the main scout hall, where it would sit whilst work was being carried out.

The following task will be moving it to the new store. But back to now. With cans of water (Michael's favourite liquid death) and sweets available, no reason for dips of energy.

But plenty of time to dip and lick.... (see photos for context).

It was a nostalgic trip as we moved things, thinking back to when we were younger and having the fun of playing with toys. There was the need to unscrew fixtures, moving shelving and all of the gardening equipment that we know, oh so well.

Still time to spare....

10 more minutes, Michael called. So outside we went, a bit of quick leaf clearing and bramble / nettle cutting and we were done.

A photo to prove that we were here, and we were off, fueled by the sugar of sweets and pure determination. We will return next week, to move it and ourselves once more.....

It was a split group tonight, half meeting at the task and half jogging in the heat.

Even with a few late night's of rain, it still hadn't been enough to penetrate the earth and keep things green. So, goodgym gets to the cans again.

Tonight, we were heading to Global Gardens to volunteer our time and help to keep the space alive. Michael led the crew around the site showing them the different areas, a lot of which goodgym have been very involved with. The orchard, the forest school, the newly cleared children growing space and the general growing spaces for the volunteers and community.

There was certainly plenty to water, and a chance for lots of extra steps back and forth to the trough. We got out our watering cans, bowls, anything really that could hold water. Unfortunately the trough that we used wasn't filling all too quickly and it wasn't too long before we had managed to empty it.

A quick run around and we found a much better second trough, one that actually filled back up quicker. So our task resumed...

We managed to water parts of the orchard, the children's growing area, the pumpkin trellis, the general beds and even the tomato polytunnel.... We may have tried a pea or two... And the odd apple....

Thanks to a great crew tonight, we have helped again to keep those spaces of beauty in Cardiff to keep growing and thriving.

Join us next week, as we head to Cwtch Together.. See you there folks!

Our second successful task at the local community orchard in Cardiff.

Welcome to our first timers, Jenny and Mhairi.

CROESO

And back for more, on their second return task Darcey (and the orchard again.... do you have a favourite task already?).

Our groups tonight had walkers Michael, Jenny, Rosie, Dylan and Dylan.

Runners Mhairi, David, Darren, Darcey, Aaron and Emily.

And on the cycle..... Lew.

With very little rain in the recent months we needed to help out the trees in the orchard. With some only recently planted (this year), they are much more vulnerable to droughts.

Unfortunately other community spaces in Cathays and Bute Park have had 30-40% of their newly planted trees die this year due to drought conditions.

GoodGym are not going to let this happen to the orchard!

A great team effort watering a lot of trees. We had our extra workout rolling the bowsers to the tsp and back, then team spout got to the watering cans. We managed all the trees tonight, and then had a wildflower spotting session with the wonderful Bodge.