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5 Goodgymers helped their local community in Southwark
Lindy Macfarlane
Daryl Shaw
Isaac Beevor
Gemma
Katy Hulm
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Southwark

Saturday 11th November 2023

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A beautiful day and a truly incredible selection of snacks got us off to a great start to this task - if you haven't tried homemade hot lemonade on a cold day, I would really recommend changing that asap. Then we got stuck into assisting the volunteer team to tear, saw and drag all the crawlers off any walls in the garden 🌱🧱✖️

This got more satisfying as the morning went on, because by the end, we'd given the green blanket over the wall a short back and sides, and only the greenery at the very top of the wall was left. So we played tug of war with it, except, er, cooperatively rather than tugging in opposite directions - Gemma, Daryl and Steve pushed the mass over the wall while Marianne and I pulled it. When it came down the new ground level was about a metre higher on top of what we'd dragged down 😅

Meanwhile, Lindy and Isaac had been clearing the walls in the ~secret garden~, and it was getting loads more light! Plus the neighbours will be very glad to have less invasive plants over their border, now ✨

We finished the day wrenching the tree-trunk-sized roots of the crawlers away from the wall, which was a pure muscle job 💪



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Steve Lancashire

Tue 21st Nov 2023 at 5:22pm

Fantastic report on a very enjoyable day. Amazing progress on bringing light into our garden and will inspire us at the Co-op. Thanks for the hot lemonade plug - We will definitely do more for the next time!

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