We started by walking to Lidl and then the local garden centre to get some flowers to replace those that were vandalised yesterday! It was sooo windy and chilly!

we then planted flowers and finished filling in the planter reservoirs with water, good session!

we spent a good hour watering the planters, filling up water reserves this morning - good arm work out!

Sadly, on arrival, we discovered that some noob has pulled out a lot of plants and flowers last night and threw them on the road where they were flattened:(. What would drive a person do that?!

Anyways, we'll be replanting again and again, in the meantime this anti-social behaviour was reported and hopefully individual can be identified through the CCTV and fined!

There are a lot of great things about a community project, unfortunately you also deal with the negative side of community. It won't stop local residents creating good initiatives!

A quick little sesh to clear the litter and water the plants.

On arrival, I cleared the cigarette butts - not too bad in most planters, but a couple clearly been used as an ashtray, someone even left a little glass to put cigarette butts in! seriously!

Only planters under the bridge needed a good soak, I could see that everything was settling in well and heather showed a sign of bee growth!

🌼🌺HAINAULT STATION COMMUNITY GARDEN🌺🌼

We had a beautiful sunny morning to meet up by the station, three goodgymmers and 4 local volunteers assembled at the station and got to work very quickly! And despite two no-shows, we had a great group for all the tasks that needed to be done!

We had lots to do: - Take rubbish and many cigarette butts out of neglected planters - Fill watering cans with a very interesting system we have of using a hoover hose and using sinks at the station men's toilets (it's as grim as it sounds! but can't look into a gift horse's mouth - just grateful for water source) - Weed and pick litter out of the lush green planters - Fill the planters with fresh compost - Plant out a selection of green, shade loving plants as they will be under the bridge with not a lot of sun - Water everything thoroughly - Sweep up the mess we made along the front of the station

We had a nice post-task cuppa after a couple of hours of hard work, sitting in the sun, chatting, talking with locals - a lovely time! Well done everyone and thank you for your brilliant help to make an area of Redbridge that much better!

A lovely morning for some good deedary! I got there early, which is a miracle and shortly after Belal arrives for his first ever GoodGym session!!!! Well done and welcome to Goodgym, Belal!

First, we picked out a lot of cigarette butts and some litter as the street cleaner is not working at weekends and there people that just don't care! On the other hand, all planters were watered from the top, which means station and/or residents kept the planters going through the week!

Then I explained the glamorous watering routine where we fill the cans in the men's toilet! It was freshly cleaned so we were in luck hehe!

Belal did a fantastic job and filled the planters in no time whilst talking about lots of travel destinations! Thank you for helping this morning!

we started an hour later as I needed a bit of slower start this Sunday:)

On arrival, we saw the planters under the bridge watered! It's an amazing present and shows that community cares! James and I got onto the task at hand and filled in all containers with water, hopefully that will help over the next couple of extra hot days!

Great Sunday morning good deed!