We did a weedle bit of this-le and a little bit of that and here's hoe-pin that we can get back soon to do more!

11 Goodgymers helped their local community in Richmond
1 / 30
Richmond

Monday 25th June 2018

Report written by Kate Holmes

Share the love

It's so true GG gives you wings eh! We all agree Anita - As we flew into our task tonight .....

Tonight we welcomed back Thomas and congratulated Mark on his official 100th goodgym mission! Goodgym finally gives you wings :)

Mark is never one to take it easy on us, so the warm up on the green was energetic and fast paced. When he asked if we were hot enough, the answer came back 'not half!' If only we were solar powered!

On our run out to the task, we crossed the bridge and were surprised to see a man proposing to his girlfriend. As we kept running, a small round of applause suggested he'd got the answer he was after, how lovely!

We kept on going, towards Marble Hill House, then down to the river bank, where we were glad of the shade from the trees. Our task tonight was on the other side of the river so we headed back towards the bridge, only to find a film crew! Turns out we'd witnessed a film in the making, not a real proposal! Oh man, GG could have hit the movies....Never mind

Once at the task, we surveyed the enormous amount of weeds in the flower beds. "Is this-tle we have to do? This-tle be a great task!" we cried. We battled the prickly heat, the scratchy, sticky cleavers and the clouds of dusty plane tree seeds. We tried everything to get the more well rooted weeds out, a weed-le bit of this and a weed-le bit of that, until finally we had a whole pile of bags and a much cleaner, clearer flower bed, well sections of it anyway! Heading back, we formed our own little band of the seven dwarfs: itchy, scratchy, sneezy, sleepy, sweaty... we're just ho-hoping we can find sometime to come back & finish the job.

After a wacky races style race back to Wholefoods, with Anita claiming a last minute victory via a crafty short cut, we just had time for a round of Happy Birthday for Mark who turned 100?? on Friday! Happy Birthday Mark

As discussed in news here is the link if you wish to participate in the GoodGym Olympics via Strava before the weekend.


Session Leader
This task supported
Attendees
Kate Holmes
Mark Barun
Thomas Langley
Laura Hall
Jane Yelloly
Sal Wardeh
Jenny Murray
Anita
Aran Naidu
Join us on our next session

Richmond

Let's get physical - digging up woodchip at Landmark Arts!
🗓Saturday 10:00am

Doing the groundwork so that they can lay a new, accessible path

+2
Sam
BethMaena D'Auria
7 GoodGymers are going

Discuss this report