Trim-a-trim of Roses. A bin bag full of refuse. A tidy-up, a doorstep chat. A GoodGym mission done.

Friday lunchtime gardening mission in Barnes pruning roses , collecting up litter and chatting to Ms N.

Come on baby, do the locomotion

A warm welcome to Honor this evening who joined us for the first time to run from the Tap in Richmond out to Petersham Common. There task owner and member, Ken, met us to explain the tasks needed to work on the last section of traditional hedgerow down Star & Garter hill that we started last winter. This included fence post carrying, fence post bashing and binding between posts, hawthorn planting and some surrounding litter picking. The team set straight to work including another first time GoodGymmer, Emily 😍

When it came to the time to run back, Ken plied us with fortifying chocolates as the group headed back up to Richmond High Street for a well-deserved rest and warm up!

Four Goodgymmers turned out for our first visit to the Richmond Furniture Scheme this year.

Adam, Chris, Harrison and Susannah were tasked with coming up with a few IKEAs this Saturday!

More specifically flat pack furniture, that involved a desk, shelves and a chest of draws (fortunately instructions were included.)

Both Harrison and Susannah focused on the draws, which involved the use of screw drivers and hammers, while Chris and Adam tackled the desk and the shelves.

Time unfortunately just ran out on us for the desk, but hopefully we still presented some valuable IKEAs that could be used.

See link below for upcoming missions and tasks https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions

Woo woo !!

Hats off to run leader/group activator Liz and stalwart GoodGymers Victoria, Chris, Monika, JP, Ken and Anita who all braved a cold and wet February Monday night to complete an awesome array of tasks that will help GoodGym Richmond's sponsored plots in Buccleuch Gardens look fabulous come the spring:

Leaves on the Line: The grooves of the sliding shutters were deep-cleaned, with all the autumn leaf-mould brushed out to allow clean running.

Turn Again: The compost heap was turned and twigs and bulky items chopped-up to aid decomposition.

Arcadia: The Arcade was swept, cleaned and given a mini-makeover .

Plantasia: The square brick planters integral to the front of the Arcade were weeded, topped-up with homemade compost and top-dressed with stones.

Scrape Moss: Moss was scrapped off the tarmac and added to the compost heap.

On the Pull: Plantains were pulled, spot-weeded out of the lawn with the dextrous use of cutlery knives.

New Shoots: And afterwards in the the Tap Tavern, where Richmond GG’s Monday night Group Runs always start, new ideas for developing and funding more GoodGym work in Buccleuch Gardens were discussed.