It was a lovely sunny Saturday and we followed in the footsteps of the first group who set the standard high for the task after doing such a great job at the first session that morning.

We were filling buckets of compost and transporting them over to the roof hut where the roofers were fixing the turf roof.

5 GoodGymmers were on wheelbarrow duty (which involved re-filling and lifting buckets), 2 GoodGymmers were refilling buckets with compost, 1 GoodGymmer (Nathalie) was on the platform passing the buckets to the roofers

Great job everyone! Hope you had some fun in the snow the next day :)

We were greeted with glorious sunshine for our task (part 1) at the allotments of Urban Escape, I nearly regretted not wearing sunscreen! Despite blazing sunshine, the ground was still frosty and slippery making our task of maneuvering bucket loads of compost from the entrance of the allotments down a path (half concrete/ half wood ship) quite a tricky one. With many keen hands to help but strict social distancing measures in mind, we organised ourselves (well Lisa from Urban Escape organised us I should say) in a perfect COVID-safe one-way compost conveyor belt. A couple of runners shoveled the compost pile into buckets making sure the portion size was light and liftable. The load was then transported via wheelbarrows (powered by strong runner legs) to their destination at the other end of the path. There, the buckets were lifted up onto the roof of a hut (built by one of the roofers overseeing our work) years ago. The roof needed some urgent fixing as wind and weather had blown most of the soil of the green canopy away. Also quite blown away were the two roofers having to unload the buckets on the roof at the speedy pace the GoodGymers delivered the bucket loads of compost. Small stops in the supply chain were a welcomed opportunity to catch up on some sun (right, Russ?) or catch up with other GoodGymers (appearently Dave and Paul had a lot of catching up to do!). Moving most of the compost pile on to the roof in record time, we were sad to stop the fun but we had to leave some for the next group...

New GoodGym recruit Till did phenomanally well in picking the hardest task on his first GoodGym mission with lifting up the buckets to the roof.

Meanwhile, Laura was breaking ground on her own mission and started digging up the somewhat frozen ground around the poly tunnel, a task to be continued...

Amazing job everyone!

It felt very odd to see 10 people in one (large) place but there was a big mound of manure that beeded moving and we LOVE that sort of thing.

Whilst it's a race againt time to get tasks conpleted before Lisa goes on maternity leave, we needed precision to make sure the manure went around the existing plants (large and small) and didn't swamp them. We were also tasked with finding out how deep the poles were dug into the ground in the polytunnel.

Excellent social distancing meant we could work on lots of different beds at once and the first shift made great progress. We'd split the task into two shifts for social distancing and to make sure no-one got too cold.

Shift 2 took over and the (soon-to-be-poly) tunnel beds were filled to brimming and the remaining manure pile was relocated to within the Urban Escape space.

Two-and-a-half hours later, Lisa was breathing a huge sigh of relief (behind her mask, of course!).

It felt very odd to see 10 people in one (large) place but there was a big mound of manure that beeded moving and we LOVE that sort of thing.

Whilst it's a race againt time to get tasks conpleted before Lisa goes on maternity leave, we needed precision to make sure the manure went around the existing plants (large and small) and didn't swamp them. We were also tasked with finding out how deep the poles were dug into the ground in the polytunnel.

Excellent social distancing meant we could work on lots of different beds at once and the first shift made great progress. We'd split the task into two shifts for social distancing and to make sure no-one got too cold.

Shift 2 took over and the (soon-to-be-poly) tunnel beds were filled to brimming and the remaining manure pile was relocated to within the Urban Escape space.

Two-and-a-half hours later, Lisa was breathing a huge sigh of relief (behind her mask, of course!).

We did our final path clearance at Urban Escape tonight! We weren’t deterred by the darkness or the rain and got back into weeding and lifting, ready to be wood chipped by a children’s group soon.

Fuelled by cake, we replaced our butterfly lights and head torches with some super pretty sparklers to end the last session - thank you so much Lisa! We can’t wait to be back asap

It’s officially head torch season! We headed up the hill for some clearing of the path. We were on a mission to dig out as many weeds as possible, put the wood-chip on top and keep an eye out for the lovely fox all at the same time.

We had plenty of lights to guide the way and headed home with some fresh produce. Ready to come back next week and take on the path (and the the rope swing)...