No need for a gym session today. Mammoth garden clearance was workout enough!

Today I helped out at local community garden Common Ground with their annual autumn garden clearance. They had 2 skips on site ready to be filled.

We spent a good couple of hours cutting back overgrown plants and clearing unused waste from the basement storage, punctuated by coffee and cake, provided by a next door neighbour. My main jobs were buddleia pruner, ferryer of cut branches to skip and chief "jump on skip contents to squash down and make space for more"-er

3 Goodgymmers joined other volunteers from Don Catchment Rivers trust to clean up a particularly grotty spot of the River Don.

We started with a safety brief and getting kitted out with wellies, high vis, life jackets, gloves and litter pickers. We then spent 3 hours picking litter and cutting back vegetation (with a well catered tea break in the middle)

Waterways clear once more for all the wildlife including fish, birdlife and otters! 🦆 🐟 🦦