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Liz

Winning on Aggregate

Monday 31st March

Written by Lucy Hill

The clocks had gone forwards, the sun was shining and the skies were blue at 6:45 in Richmond! There was absolutely nothing better to do than be outside on a joyful spring evening!

Feeling Fly

Chris, JP, Liz and Lucy thought so, and made our way across the green and along the riverside path, taking in lush views (and the pesky flies that had also decided to enjoy the new warm and light evenings!). We arrived at the Sea Scouts, where Russell was already working on the nights task. A huge pile of construction aggregate had been delivered, and rather inconveniently dumped on the path leading to the scout hut. Our job was to make a start of shifting this off the path to level out the surface, and move it out of the way!

*Rake it off *

Once Chris had a new dating profile picture from atop the mound of gravel and stone, we got to it taking it in turns for a full body workout, sharing raking out and scraping from the bottom with shovelling down from the top. And, a bit of wheelbarrow lifting and loading too.

*Worth the Pile *

Although the mound of aggregate was still present, we had made an impressive dent on it between the four of us. And of course we had to make sure there was something to do for next week’s task! We waved goodbye to Russell and enjoyed the sun setting over the Thames as we made our way back home.

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Adam Stephens
JP

At your disposal

Saturday 29th March

Written by Richmond runner

5 GG’ers started off at the 3 Pigeons plot and walked along the river clearing the area of various litter, some of it swept in by the tide. It was lovely weather and we enjoyed the sunshine, fresh air and good company. We finished off close to the Sea Scouts entrance and managed to fill up 3 bin bags. Then we headed back to Tide Tables for a well deserved coffee.

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Daisy RobinsonZak Robinson

Leaf it out!

Monday 24th March

Written by Liz (She/her)

A chatty run along a very quiet riverside this evening as we welcomed Zak to his first experience with GoodGym during his visit from Bristol. 😁

Our destination was St Christopher's Fellowship in East Twickenham where we often go to help in their large and quite unruly garden. We made a plan for ourselves with some extensive weeding in the vegetable patch and against the main building, Anita's monumental effort sorting out the compost heap and plenty of tidying up in the front drive.

A successful 45 minutes later, everything looked more manicured, even if our gloved hands did not!

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Antonietta Leo

Hampton Court Half happiness

Saturday 22nd March

Written by Antonietta Leo

Great event by Run Through ! It was an early start but worth it to be in a race environment. Runners were so grateful to the volunteers!

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Ken MacKenzie

Its' Bin way too long!

Saturday 22nd March

Written by Richmond runner

Fun task this morning as a bunch of goodgymer's and other volunteer groups combined to do a mass litter pick across Petersham common. Led by our unfortunately injured, but local resident outdoors man Ken - we set about combing the area clean of garbage. There was a lot but we smashed through it, and felt good for having done our bit! Coffee and a stroll past the 3 pigeons plot (another goodgym managed site) to admire the lovely flowers and we were done!

On to the next one... Monday ... "we go again! We do not let this slip!" :-)

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Liz

Massive log removal

Monday 17th March

Written by Liz (She/her)

A chatty run by the river on a super clear night under the stars as we headed to Petersham to the Sea Scouts base. Task owner Russell knows exactly what GoodGym can help with and had a large pile of heavy driftwood to move from the area it was drying out to the logpile, making room to store the newly arrived boat for the scouts.

Team work, a very hardworking trolley near retirement, two wonky wheelbarrows and a lot of heavy trips across the lawn and the job was complete!

We will be back at this lovely spot by the river on the 31st March.

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