A small but committed group set out from Glass Mills on a lovely Bank Holiday evening. In order to make the most of the remaining sun, we deviated from our usual route to Seniors to take in the heights & sights of Blithe Hill Fields.

On arrival, our sextet was split to tackle 3 tasks: weeding the planter beds, digging out and planting for a new vine, and weeding in the courtyard.

Even though it had only been 2 weeks since our last visit, a previous vine could already be seen starting its assent of the arch installed that previous Monday!

Enjoying the extended daylight, we didn’t wrap til a little after 20:00, when cleaned beds were left in favour of the Blythe Hill Tavern - well it was technically still the weekend, after all!

We haven't been to Senior's for a couple of months and it was good to be back ticking off the tasks that they're unable to do themselves - we're always happy to do what we can to make things a little easier for them.

The group tackled all those hills with ease and we were at Senior's before we knew it! Alice and Val guided us through the tasks for the evening and we set off in our little groups.

Marta had the task of carefully digging up the mint for Jenny and Lindsay to plant in pots for an upcoming plant sale.

Louise and Joseph tackled building the arch which had a suitably helpful set of instructions which more resembled a puzzle.

Oli went back and forth with the wheelbarrow filled with watering cans and buckets of water and also a full wheelbarrow of water with the end goal of filling the water butts.

Julian had the task of removing the sticky willy (also known by its proper name of cleavers) from around the garden. Many buckets were filled of the pesky weed.

After we ticked everything off it was time to head back to Glass Mill.

In a last minute change of task Lewisham's finest GoodGymers gathered at Glass Mill ready to tackle the litter that is often seen flying around our start point.

We split into 3 groups and went off in different directions to hunt for some litter. The most fascinating find that I'm aware of was part of a microwave!

We ended up with 3 bin bags full of litter in just over half hour which is excellent!!

Next week we are heading to Florence Green and we have a social planned for afterwards.

Or more like cutting up sleeves as we each cut off our preferred piece of the jumper for cleaning the windows with!

A mighty group of dedicated GoodGymers who weren't phased by the rain made their way to Senior's ready to tackle the sellotape on and around the windows.

It worked out at about a large window each and armed with window cleaning spray, WD40 and clothes, we got stuck in!

There were various techniques happening but we were making progress. Being dark outside the smears started showing and it became a task in itself to try and remove them. There were multiple methods deployed including a fresh spray of window cleaner followed by paper towels and very very very precise cleaning so the smears will definitely be uniform if not removed.

I hope the results are sparkling when the sun comes up this morning!

Great work team!!

A quick community mission for this eve, a simple task of taking down the halloween decorations that we put up a couple of weeks ago.

Myself and Julian braved the ladders to get all the floating hats down and Louise tackled the many many bats on the windows.

Once done, we did a quick extra task of taking down a hanging sign which turned out to be rather heavy. After a bit of to me to you, we managed to fit it in its temporary home.

Once we'd made sure Di was safely in her Uber we headed to the Blythe Hill Tavern for a well earned drink!

A dead-icated group of nine left Glassmill and went over a scary hill and were joined by four more at Seniors where our task was to make Stanstead Lodge Halloween ready!

A cauldron of bats, a coven of witches, a cluster of spiders, a clutter of spiders’ webs and a fraid of ghosts were fixed to walls, windows and ceilings. A terror-ific time was had by all.

We celebrated Jenny’s 500th GoodGym good deed, a real hallow-queen, such an important part of our community.

Afterwards, Vic was an absolute star, making sure that Diane from Seniors locked up safely and got to her bus stop.