On a lovely Autumn morning Claire, Julie and Sabir welcomed Stephanie to her first GoodGym mission at the GoodGym flowerbed to prepare it for winter.

Sabir got straight on with clearing the leaves whilst Claire, Julie and Stephanie tackled the weeds.

Bed tidied it was time for the fun part of planting all the spring bulbs. We planted lots of daffodils, tulips and alliums as well as a random selection of bulbs left over from Claire’s garden last year.

The last job was the hardcore gym part of our session. It involved 3 people walking along way through the gardens to the woodchip pile where we filled massive buckets up with wood chip and then walked them back. Having completed 3 runs we decided we’d gathered enough and hope to have a wheel barrow for next time.

The bed is looking lovely and should provide lots of Spring colour. 🌷🪻🌷

Emily, Julie, Jana, Dave, and Ffion took on the challenge of cleaning a fleet of muddy bikes. With the bikes clamped and raised, we scrubbed off every speck of dirt.

However, the real fun came when we tried to steer the bikes—someone had loosened the handlebars for storage! Cue a chaotic scene of bikes wobbling in all directions and plenty of laughter.

An hour flew by, and soon we were admiring a stack of gleaming bikes, ready for action.

Upstairs we had a wheelie good time; Claire, Ben and Jade moved the vintage bikes to their section and the children’s bikes to another pile to make room for lots of wheels.

We filled our new space with wheels from downstairs and another room stacking them as neatly as possible.

A few wheels still had tyres on so we popped downstairs and learnt how to remove them. It was tiring work but very satisfying when they popped off.

Can’t wait to do it all again soon!