A poem this will be.
Take a look at the photos.
You’ll see the odd tree

Seven GoodGymmers met this Sunday.
For yet another fun day

We emptied a hole and filled another.
We even found some carpet mother!

A difference we did make.
Time for some tea and cake

This poem is done.
I might now have a cinnamon bun?

Until next time…

This may seem like an unusual motto but sometimes things are unusual.

We met today for some snipping, chopping and clearing of a large area at the school (definetly no slipping in the mud). There were balls, strange tubes and lots of artistic licence. The aim is to make an old pond space useful for the Key Stage 1 pupils, so clearing everything that can go - if it grows, it goes. and id its rotten wood (to the skip), old fence or paving slabs (to be reused).

After an hour we were done (for now, with maybe a follow up visit to come soon). All that was left was a hot drink and a biscuit or muffin (or maybe both). Welcome to Tilia on their first task with us :)

Well done everyone for staying on your feet!

Until next time…

A new beneficiary for our bramble clearance tonight - a primary school with a Forest School that had become a bit unfriendly with scrapes and scratches not part of the teaching plan!

We set about chopping away all the unwanted elements and stacking them in the brash pile so the wildlife can make new homes there. Machete-wielding was popular so we ensured people took it in turns with others using shears, secateurs and anything else that came to hand - even a lawn edger to reduce the size if the buddhleia in the too wall. Rakes, forks and spades were deployed to move the choppage (new GoodGym word) to the brash pile. To make sure the amazing playground is ready for the new academic year, litter was collected up in no-longer-single-use bags and hundreds (at least, it seemed that way) of tennis balls abd footballs were released from the bramble forest - along woth some GoodGymmers!