A terriffic trio (who had hot-footed it from an earlier mission) met once again at Lincoln Court to remove the thistles and other weeds from one of the garden areas. Bill, one of the residents, met us and provided access to the toolshed and we soon got to work. The raised bed was cleared and the surrounding area weeded, but there is still a lot of work to do. Bill told us that he and some of the other residents have great plans for this area so we may be needed back again soon.

We met some of the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust staff at their gazebo set up in Foxwood for their community engagement day. This involved the supply of several skips (for residents' rubbish) which had been delivered earlier that morning, but we soon discovered that they had all been completely filled by the time we got there! I paired up with one member of staff to the furthest skip (still just around the corner) to survey the "delights" that had been left - including several bikes, a bathtub and mattress, most of which were not allowed in the skip so had to be removed (and later collected in a JRHT van). I did manage to prevent another mattress being put on top of the skip by a local resident (which are not allowed as these incur a cost a the tip) before doing a litter pick of the area. Claire, Leanne and Hannah were also litter picking and between us we collected several bags of rubbish before our hour was up.

Four Goodgymers set up the book sale with extra special care for the start of summer - get on down to Tang Hall Library for a holiday read!

at PF yesterday unusually there were seven 🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭 seven 🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺seven 🥣🥣🥣🥣🥣🥣🥣 a final conflict between the beast & Babylon ensued resulting in all the tables & chairs being returned to thine storage kingdoms & all 3 Goodgymers went away happy

A gorgeous group of 8 GG Yorkies gathered at the meadow behind The Fox pub to help some local volunteers scythe and rake the area. The scythers did a great job keeping the rakers busy and after an hour we’d cleared a large area, leaving only a much smaller patch left to do. A very pleasant way to spend an hour, finished off with a drink (or two) at the pub, joined by a couple more GG Yorkies.

A few changes from last week as we are still in the back room but using square tables again instead of rectangular longer ones. We now have the door code but Lisa from Age UK had kindly arrived early as she wasnt aware that we could now get in on our own. ironically her pass card didnt wotk so we used our code after all! the task got swiftly done and we repaired to Ruby's for coffee (Babs and John) or tea (Leanne) and a bacon butty ( only John! )