Three of us made it to help out the friends of Brixton Windmill. We set up tables, chairs and (a) gazebo. It's grey but fairly mild - so we're not expecting any rain 🤞

Firstly, a warm welcome to Nirmay who came for his second good deed after helping out at Borough Food Cooperative (BFC) and good luck starting your new role on Monday!

Daryl, Joao, John, Nathan, Sam and Tracey all met up Nirmay and Simon from Thorlands at the Walled Garden to collect the tools and talk about what needed to be done today.

Joao and Nathan started the session by doing rounds back to the mulch depo centre to collect the woodchip for the bed.

Tracey, John, Daryl and Nirmay concentrated on clearing the growth around the terrace. Once this finish the team progressed towards the platform to clear the green around this area. Sam did some litter picking whilst preparing a few nutrient packed green leaves for the compost pile in the Walled Garden, which Nathan brought over at the end of the session.

Halfway through the session, Daryl switched with Joao to get the mulch whilst Joao was a machine as he helped clear the platform area. All this on his 100th good deed, which he kept quiet. Well done, Joao! It's a massive milestone 🎉🥳

Seven strong GoodGymers in David, Fi, Jo, John, Michael, Sam and Tracey all came together to finish what was started at GoodGym Southwark's group run earlier in the week on this fine and sunny Saturday.

John and Sam arrived early and were offered coffee by Simon. As John went to collect them, Sam collected the tools.

Once everyone arrived, we split into smaller tasks to get started. John and Michael got rid of a tree stump as it was in the way of the new bed that we were creating whilst the rest removed brick and wooden poles from the terrace to have it clear for us to work in.

Once the bed had been turned over, Fi and John did trips to get the woodchip mulch whilst Michael watered the ground to ensure it was damp as we want to encourage growing and not leave it to be a hotbed.

David, Jo, Sam cleared the terrace of bindweed and chopped back at the buddleia that is growing over from next door.

Such a productive session with loads of noticeable changes. Well done, team!

Sam arrived early as it was a nice day to cycle, so he forgot how quick it was to get to Camberwell Green from his home. Yet, he found the gazebo setup and all the items brought out, so all he needed to do was put up the tables and set out the items for sale.

Just as he finished sorting out the tables and their position under the gazebo, Tracey arrived! Hooray! 🎉 She told Sam that she felt guilty not doing GoodGym for awhile after being on a retreat and holiday in Kenya!

They pretty much displayed all the items within 15 minutes as Barbara arrived later than usual to say she had a "telling off" with a cyclist (at least, no one was hurt) as she drove over. The cyclist knew she was from SE5 Forum and vowed to cancel her membership 😢 just unfortunate with these things...

Anyway, we chatted with Barbara and at the end, Sam came back to buy two items for the Xmas social...soon to be found out, who will receive them 👀 although Sam still needs to pay for them as Barbara's woes continued as the tablet won't turn on...