We're digging in the rain
26 GoodGymers made their way 5.8km to help the Agnes Riley Gardens and Portico Gallery in Lambeth.
- Tuesday, 11th of June 2019
- Led by Pritesh Mistry
25 incredible people joined me in Lambeth as we helped Agnes Riley Gardens and Portico Gallery and ran 6 and 8km!
In the news this week: * We celebrated Victoria reaching 200 good deeds - amazing achievement! * We welcomed Lisa and David on their first GoodGym run * Nicky told us about the parkrun and community mission this Saturday * Entry for GG Olympics is open - enter here and all the details here
On to the night at hand.... Victoria led us in a fantastic warm up, nice to see "shoo-ing the chickens" again, always good to stretch those hamstrings!
Jim and Nicky took a group of eight over to Portico to help with move some gazebo weights, here's the report from Jim:
"Eight plucky GGers took the scenic long route to Portico. The scenic route also got everyone rather wet, but declining the offers of tea from lovely John we decided to keep warm by doing good instead. The task at hand was to sort the weights for the gazebos which are used for West Norwood’s feast festival. With some splendid sorting and some heavy duty lifting we got the task done on time and were back at Papas in time to dry off."
Great job everyone!
Victoria and I took everyone else off to Agnes Riley Gardens where we met Adrian and helped with a number of tasks:
- Digging and levelling a plot
- Weeding and trimming the vegetable plots
- Trimming long grass from around fruit trees
As we got to work the heavens opened which for a while was cooling refreshment but then we just got a bit wet! In any case spirits were high and we worked hard making a huge difference. You certainly did a good job as Adrian was very keen for us to return!
With a group photo done we then headed back to base, stretched off and then it was time for home. Don’t forget to sign up for next week here, you’ve still got me and we are all going to help at Hillside Gardens and more importantly its Lambeth pub week and we’ll be heading to the Duke of Ed for a bevvy or two!
Thanks for having me and join me again next week,
Pritesh
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