Monday 11th April 2022
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Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)
With Easter just around the corner, we enjoyed an egg-themed session in Wandsworth last night!
After warming up our muscles ahead of the run down to Doddington Community garden, we also warmed up the old grey matter by naming as many egg based recipes as we could. Ranging from basic fried eggs up to frittata, eggs royale, and even Easter Bunny eggs, we proved we had some egg-shell-ent knowledge. OK, that's quite enough bad egg puns from me.
It was just a short run down to where we were meeting Malissa, the lead volunteer, and we loaded ourselves up with pots, plants and compost to take to the garden. We spent the rest of the journey planning for one of GoodGym's most epic challenges yet, whilst doing some calculations on how long it would take for us to carry several hundred bags of compost up to the garden. Watch this space for one of our biggest tasks yet, coming soon!
Up on the rooftop we got cracking (sorry) with various jobs. Whilst Jordan hosed the plants, Catherine and Lorna began tackling the sticky willy (genuine name, promise!) and Annabel, Sophie and Rebecca shifted barrows of compost to the beds. There was just time for a dock plant elimination session before we headed down stairs for our Rabbit Relay.
The aim of the game was to complete three laps each of the square whilst your partner did various strength exercises. You all did incredibly well, especially Catherine who had raced 10k the day before, Jordan who had already done one session that day, and Sophie who ran a very long way yesterday. Whilst the pairing of Jordan and Sophie did technically cross the line first, you are all Rabbit relay champions.
A quick run back to base and some stretches and it was time for our Easter social, much discussion on how to correctly pronounce 'pho' and a lot of laughs. Happy Easter one and all, hope you have an eggstra special break!
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