GoodGym Redbridge

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Kathryn HertzbergPeter Van TongerenLinda SharmanJames CNatalie

Baby Bank Business

Monday 21st July

Written by Peter Van Tongeren

5 Goodgymmers made their way to the last Babybank session before the summer break, by the usual variety of methods, including running, cycling & walking.

Adam discovered the nice laminated labels to mark the different age categories had disappeared, so we were back to the old school post-it notes and soon got stuck into the bags provided.

For some reason this load seemed to have a higher than usual amount of clothing being too big - 3 or 4 year olds don't quite classify as a baby anymore!

As if we aimed fir it, on the mark at 8 all bags were sorted, plies bagged up and put away for others to process from there.

Job done, we said our goodbyes and made our respective ways home. With the babybank now closed for the summer break, we'll find out in a few weeks when we will be resuming sorting duties, so keep an eye on the website for updates.

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Watering Plants

Thursday 17th July

Written by Redbridge runner

A quick half-hour session to water planters outside the station. Hopefully, good rain also arrives later today to properly soak the plants!

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Peter Van TongerenJames C
AJ

Tricky Teamwork tackling thorns though trellis thankfully tethered tolerably

Monday 14th July

Written by James C (he/him)

3 arrived by bike and one got the train to our starting point. We all took a gentle walk over to the corner house, and waiting for the task owner to show up, she happened to be a bit late. 2 stayed behind to admire the flowers and get a plan together, while the other 2 went off and fetched the ladder from the task owner's house. Once arrived back at corner house, we were set the task of mounting trellis to a wall with the plan of attaching trellis to some bricks and chucking them over the wall, and hoping gravity will keep it in place. Plan in place, Peter went up the ladder moved some thorns out of the way and got the trellis up. There was some repeated attempts of getting the bricks/counterweights over the wall, but eventually we done the task at hand. We walked back to task owner's house with the ladder and then went on a small walk back to our starting point. One person did unfortunately leave their personal items behind, but luckily managed to retrieve them, and with that we said ta ra.

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Water-loo at Hainault station 💧 🌺 🚽

Monday 14th July

Written by Redbridge runner

A productive lunch break watering a community garden with the water from the station’s men’s loo! 🤘

Thanks to a local business’s donation we now have two extra watering cans - what a difference it makes to speeding up this job!

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Nothing says you’re old like…

Friday 11th July

Written by Redbridge runner

… choosing to water a community garden on Friday night! 😁

A quick session to water plants after a scorcher of a day. It was a lovely evening with a bit of a cool breeze!

Job done and plants can survive until the next watering ✅

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Planting and Watering at Hainault station

Friday 11th July

Written by Redbridge runner

Great Sunday morning effort to water all 15 (or so) planters at the Hainault station community garden!

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