Today Anna and I tackled some nettles and brambles cutting them, thus clearing them from overhanging on the square and causing health and safety issues. We creating a edge free of grass and swept up round about for a tidy finish. Meanwhile Saber helped some other voluteers and Duke of Edinburgh award persons to bag up budleia and other jobs. A good mornings work followed by a catch up.

This morning Saber and myself met Danni and a few other volunteers to get on with the tasks that needed to be done. We set to work pulling up the pumpkins plants, weeds. Then chopped down the budelia all to a similar height and bagged this all up ready for the council to take away. Some of the cut down budelia also went on the dead hedge to replish it. With lots accomplished and a chat about goodgym, hopefully a new recruit we left satisfied with our mornings work.

This morning we met the Mayor who was there for the Korean's harvest haul, then got a bit carried away chopping down brambles.

A fantastic turnout for an early evening session saw volunteers from both Kingston and Merton team up with Danni at Jubilee Square. We efficiently tackled the task of removing the bunting, working in pairs with ladders and steps to carefully take down each section. It was a little windy but we worked as quickly as possible carefully wrapping the lengths of bunting to be saved for another day. Another successful community mission accomplished!

Ready for the bi-annual bunting challenge tonight the team headed along to Jubilee Square. The age-old question of "how many GoodGymers does it take to put up bunting?" was certainly answered as we completed the job with almost half an hour to spare, then endeavoured to add a little more... bunting!

Getting the many hands organised with ladders, rolls of bunting and a trusty staple gun was an interesting test of coordination and precision. And of course, no GoodGym session is complete without an impromptu good deed - we squeezed in a quick litter pick to make sure the area is at it's best ahead of Saturday's Good Food, Green Fair and some over-timers stayed behind to help finish chalking out the stall locations, ensuring plenty of space for the main stage.

What a lovely evening and welcome to Shekinah and congratulation on your first task - we hope to have you back soon.

GoodGym Merton once again stepped in to assist at Jubilee Square as Goodgym Kingston's schedule is fairly packed.

After a bit of litter picking Anna and Jade worked on the sticky situation with weed-ridden beds whilst Rachael, Emily and Rufu teamed up with shovels and rakes to spread woodchippings over the area.

There was also time to put up the new notice boards and head to the pub for an impromptu drink and chat about all things Goodgym. Congratulations to Rufu on your 10th task and we will see you in the Taskforce team very soon 🤞.