Afternoon mission at Mr E and upon arrival I knew I had been here before some time ago. When Mr E opened the door we both recognised each other. Lat time I was here with my Goodgym partners in crime Sevan and Kash. I was back to clear the back garden from bramble, weed and bind weed. Mr E brought the tools and some extension leads which were all tangled up like the bind weed and bramble around the items on his garden. He said every time he tried to untangle this mess it got knotted up more. You’re knot going to believe the kind of tangling involved. What would my "T"angle of attack be with both the garden and the extension leads? I started with the garden and got the hand mover free of the bramble and bindweed. Did the same with the fence as started to be taken over by brambles and weed. Then attacked the garden and also collected all the apples from the floor as the apple tree was dropping them by buckets. All cleared and we could see the shed at the end of the garden and also the soil in his back garden. Then mission impossible or possible with the tangled leads?! Operation "Tangle trisection" : after a few minutes the knots disappeared as took the right "t"angle to resolve this.

The August conservation day at Grove Farm felt like a proper summer day, after a bit chillier week. Four GoodGymers: Steph, Sevan, Maxime and Kash, were back to continue cutting back the thorny shrubs alongside the lane dividing the woodlands from the meadows at Grove Farm. They met Friends of Grove Farm: Mike, Bharti, Fred and Olena, who was back after a study break. The team of eight started where some of them had finished at the July session.

Ninety minutes of intense trimming, raking and litter picking made a significant difference and left the lane looking tidy and refreshed. As per Mike's suggestion, we have left the plants with berries not cut to make sure the woodland animals would have enough food for the winter months.

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