Our wonderful group were subjected to envious onlookers this morning.

We felt their eyes on us and our bunting.

Knitted bunting which we were carefully adorning the farmyard with.

We moved - they looked - we hung - they stared - we tied - they glared...............

..............those sheep were so very jealous of our wool-bound bunting!

This ace group - of Aaiza (on their first good-deed - welcome!), Andy, John, Lauren, Steve, and Thaina (also on their first good deed - welcome too!) - brought colour to Kentish Town City Farm this morning!

Over 60 minutes (and alongside our collective sets of fingers and toes turning from cold to frozen) this group dressed the farmyard and its festive marquees with stripy, polka-dot, and multi-coloured bunting, making everything ready for this weekend's festive fair 😊

Thank you, everyone, for making a difference this morning - see you next time!

Sometimes photos capture more than words alone, or even words at all, and this morning is one of those sometimes.

Our wonderful group of 10 (Alison, Angeliki, Caitlin, Emily, Lisa, Matt, Nivia, Sarah, and Steve) spent this autumn morning surrounded by train-spotting goats, marquee-chewing cows, and guinea pigs called Peanut and Pumpkin.

I think you want the photos - all the photos - and they are here :)

Thank you, all, for a happy morning in this special spot, and I hope you know how much of a positive difference you made for the team at the farm - your marquee making, fence ferrying, bunting hanging (and more!) left them well set for tomorrow's Apple Day festivities - thank you :)

Here's to the next one!!

Four soggy Goodgymmers helped KTCF set up for their Apple Day celebrations; moving tables and chairs and setting up marquees under the close supervision of goats, donkeys, sheep, and a cow.

Ten Goodgym Runners met at Kentish Town Farm to help move some logs for the preparation of a Woodland School at the site. Most of us gathered at the usual Camden start numbered up and stated our favourite lockdown experiences. This range from goodgym missions to off-road bike rides on bridleways. We warmed up then set off on the 2.9km run to the farm with John leading and Paul back marking. On arrival we were met by Mel who talked us through our task and as a reward we were promised cuddles with the goats! ( have you seen those horns!) We moved to the back of the farm past the amorous gazes of the goats to start moving the logs. It was hard work but we managed to complete the move in good time. Towards the end we discovered a hedgehog nestled in the last of the wood. (The hedgehog stole the limelight from the goats for me) On our way out we feed the goats who insisted on cuddles and selfies! Thanks for running coming and doing some good.

Paul

Ps next week’s run will be at Cecil Sharp House.

On a wet and humid night in Camden it was community mission time.

A few came direct to the task and nine of us met at GG Camden's spiritual home in Somers Town before splitting into two smaller groups so we could run in a socially distant manner all the way to KENTISH TOWN CITY FARM!

Animal Farm

And with the farm comes all the animals! At least one person was licked by a cow, loads of people fed goats, it was far too late in the night for the pigs but we still managed to unearth some spiders, snails and slugs during the task.

How much wood could a good-gym... no this won't work

The task at hand was to help move a massive pile of wood from one spot to another. In comes GoodGym and the human wood moving chain. We all lined up and Caz, Dom and Steve extricated the wood and we passed it on being careful of rogue nails and occasionally encountering some planks that needed two.

Before we knew it we had hit 8pm and so we thought we had better leave but not before far too much time hanging out with the goats!

We again split into group for the run home and with that another successful community mission dispatched

Thanks everyone,
Pritesh

Today, 9 GoodGymmers met up to help Kentish Town City Farm with their annual apple day celebrations.

There was a host of amazing activities on offer, from arts-and-craft stalls, to tombolas, to face painting to animal petting, and we were keen to see what we would be assigned to.

In the end, we were assigned to run two arts-and-crafts-based stalls; namely, making Apple heads and leaf people! (See pictures) Tammy, on her first ever GoodGym good deed, also volunteered to help out with the tombola.

As always, we learnt new things about each other on the task. First off, Niamh's happy place is with a blade in hand. Second, Frances' happy place seems to involve googly eyes. Third, you can't mention a single thing without Chi having worked in a related field (he's also Batman in an alternative universe to gullible children). Finally, everyone from Hackney (Alice and Julia in today's edition) is naturally talented at fruit and/or vegetable carving (it's obviously self-selecting to live there). Any extra stuff you've learnt below, feel free to comment below!

Thanks everyone for turning up: hope you had fun! 😄

Edited to add feedback

"Please pass on our thanks to the other goodgymers and Thansk so much for making it such a successful day. We managed to raise just over £2800, more than £500 from last years festival. Everybody really enjoyed themselves and we sold out of all food."