Mrs. G’s garden hadn’t been tended to for a while so Kareem and Ewa stepped in to help. We spent a little over an hour and half weeding, cleaning up, and removing unwanted/ dried-up plants

By the end, there was a noticeable difference. Mrs G is excited to show her cleaner garden to her friends. Just after we finished the task, we crossed paths with @Darren from the central team! :D

Mrs B has a full length fly screen for a door that opens inward to stop the little bugs flying in during the summer months. During my last visit we determined that the velcro holding the screen in place had lost its adhesion, so Mrs B had got some new velcro, and I in turn arrived with a tube of glue. Conveniently, the screen had been removed this week to allow the windows to be cleaned, so it was a case of doing the DIY on her living room floor.

The challenge was in re-attaching the screen to the externally facing door surround, as pressure needed to be applied from the outside, and there was no way to access the outside once the screen was in place - so I did my best to apply as much pressure as I could on all the velcro strips from inside through the netting (without damaging it), and hoped that would hold.

I asked Mrs B how the screen had originally been attached, but she couldn't remember - we agreed it looked much better and seemed to be holding fine, but that there was a risk of it coming loose if the wind does pick up...

7 Goodgymmers leapfrogged through the streets of Wood Green, leafleting for the incoming Noel Park Summer Festival.

Kudos corner

Big noise for Sheril who joined us for her first task and fitted in like a natural. Come again!

Don't Lose Any Fingers In The Flaps

Our Goodgymmers congregated nice and early in Russell Park to collect a mammoth pile of leaflets to be delivered in Wood Green.

Leading the charge was leafleting-anarchist Julie who straight away set off in regaling us stories of friends losing fingers through letter flaps while trying to get rid of leaflets every which way except actually delivering them.

Latoya, Sheril, and Mark very wisely decided to take the opposite side of the road, while Sarah and Paul had to endure the constant reminders of missing digits.

We bumped into some regulars along the way, and even engaged in a bit of community engagement, trying to drum up some business for the festival.

After around an hour, we had delivered well over 400 leaflets in this very warm evening. Probably even 450 if we count the ones Julie put through Paul's letterbox. (Jokes)

No fingers were harmed in the making of this report.

IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY NEXT WEEK - COME!

5 Goodgymmers wiped the slate clean, so to speak, as they helped the Friends of Russell Park get some boards ready for the Noel Park Festival later this month

Tabula Rasa

As the Noel Park Community gets ready for their festival later this month, we were asked to help them get an army of boards ready for the big day.

Armed with white and black chalkboard paint, we were trusted to repaint all the boards without spilling any paint on the floors of the children centre that was hosting us for the evening. Big gulp.

The weather was pleasantly wintry at around 24 degrees compared to the previous few days so all our Goodgymmers were in a happy mood.

Now, picture the scene. Our Mark, happy to have been assigned re-whiting a white board, was almost in a state of zen, applying wide brushstrokes to the wood. A wonderful state of mindfulness that nothing could possibly disturb. Or so you would think. Enter the ruffian.

We won't name the hirsute and loud Goodgymmer but for some reason, this idiot decided to open a pot of black paint right next to Mark's masterpiece with predictable results: a big bad spotifying of black specks all over the white board.

To be fair, Mark took it quite well and only shot the unnamed hirsute Goodgymmer the occasional death stare.

By 8pm, all boards were ready for new artwork to go in them just in time for the festival. Boom.

Join us next Wednesday for a spot of flyering fun.

Seven Goodgymmers painted the town red (and green, and yellow...) as they lent a hand to the Friends of Carbuncle Passage for a very colourful new task.

Leave the catcalling to the cats

Our Goodgymmers were excited to be joining the wonderful folk from the Friends of Hartington Park and Carbuncle Passage as they look to transform this throughway connecting Tottenham to the Marshes in the east. A mission right up our street, if you ask us.

We were welcome by Chloe who had kindly provided us with drinks and plenty of paintbrushes and we wasted no time. Niamh, Sarah, and Mark made up Ninja Team A, entrusted with varnishing the lovely artwork that some residents had painted on the fences the previous weekend.

Ninja Team B, aka. Dave, Neil, and Ed, were in turn tasked with sanding and priming a fence for a forthcoming painting sesh. Gramps, as always, made himself busy floating between the two teams and generally trying to avoid any real work.

We painted to our hearts' content while conversation ranged from the unbearable nuisance of catcalling (come on, lads, do better!) to the touching story of the lovely rainbow on the passage. 

It was a lovely evening and Chloe seemed satisfied with our handiwork so we are sure to be visiting the passage again some time soon.

A return visit to Ms B's (and third time lucky in terms of attending this particular mission) to fix a loose door handle, stop a squeak in her fridge door, and take a look at some fly screens that had worked loose.

Fortunately on a previous mission I'd tightened the door handle to her bedroom so the item in question was familiar (this time leading into her living room), and it was a quick removal of the cover, tightening of the screws and putting it all back together.

Her fridge door had stopped squeaking (she gave me a demonstration!) so that didn't require further attention, but she had some fly screens on her window which had come loose. Upon closer inspection it was clear that the glue holding the velcro tapes was no longer sticking to the screens, so Ms B will get some replacement tape, and a return mission will then be required to get them firmly reattached.