Tonight we made a return visit to Hurst Community Centre, this time to clear leaves from the outdoor area used by the nursery school.

It was a proper workout raking the soggy leaves into piles, scooping them into bags, and moving the bags aside for disposal.

Thirty five bags in fact!

It was a lovely evening to be outdoors and we worked hard to finish the job in just an hour. Now it's ready for the nursery children to enjoy tomorrow.

After posing for a group photo we headed off.

It was to fab to have Greg with us, welcome to GoodGym and congrats on your first good deed 👏.

This task was part of GoodGym's collaboration with WWF's Workout For Nature initiative, encouraging us all to get out in nature while giving it a helping hand.

A few weeks ago one of our GoodGymers, Robert, pointed out a litter trap in a patch of shrubs along a footpath near his home in Welling. Today we teamed up with Julie from Discover Welling to tidy it up, then we planned to plant some bulbs in nearby flowerbeds.

Robert was away so couldn't join us, but with our litter-picking champion Ashton on the case we got the rubbish cleared up super-quickly... or so we thought!

Just as we were ready to move on to the gardening, we spotted an empty cider can lodged in one of the thorny bushes. A closer look revealed loads more empty cans - mostly all the same brand of cider - stashed into the bush. It was incredible.

Julie set off to plant the bulbs, but we decided to tackle the cans instead. While Johnny fished them out from the top, Ashton and I worked to pull them out from the bottom.

As we extracted them more and more clattered down through the branches. It was like coins cascading out of a slot machine!

We removed over 100 cans but will need to go back with a longer litter pick to reach the final few hiding deep in the prickly shrub.

Alongside the three bags full of cans, we filled three bags with other rubbish - including the usual food packaging, a shoe, a sock, and a very, large heavy loudspeaker.

It was a satisfying result, knowing that we'd refreshed this small patch of nature.

If there's a litter hotspot that you'd like some help tidying up, please get in touch.

This task was part of GoodGym's collaboration with WWF's Workout For Nature initiative, encouraging us all to get out in nature while giving it a helping hand.

On Easter Saturday we joined Annie to do some weeding at the Hervey Road garden.

We set to work, digging up the weeds on the long border and getting yes sir, yes sir, 3 bags full. We discussed Laura's upcoming trip to Mali and her rather grown up job out there - we will miss you Laura and look forward to hearing about it on your forays back to London! And Arthur interjected very regularly that he didn't want to weed anymore and wanted to go to the playground, poor little thing.

After a decent job on the long border we headed to the wildflower garden and witnessed Marta and Richard's magnificent dead hedging coming into its own. Here Annie patiently showed us what were plants and what were weeds and we got to work filling at least another 3 bags full. The conversation remained genial but little did we know, the morning was about to take a sinister turn.

It happened just as we were collecting our belongings and getting ready to go. Cat pulled a present out of her bag for Arthur. A little white chocolate chick. Awww sweet, "what a treat". And amazingly it wasn't at all melted. The first thing that happened was, inexplicably panicking that it would suddenly melt in my hands, I said "let's dig in" and promptly pulled it's head off. It's baffling really - as if I don't experience on a daily basis the things a 3 year old finds distressing 🥺 The wailing started. Quiet at first and then a crescendo to the dreaded high pitched banshee shriek. Every parent's nightmare and at which point I saved the day by stuffing a bit of the head into his mouth and he realised the decapitated bird was in fact, very yummy. More was consumed and we were all revelling in this moment of tranquility and sweetness when Cat piped up, "does it taste like chicken?" 🤯

Witty and sadistic in equal measure. Certainly disarming - in fact I forgot to get a group photo, so thrown was I by this turn of events.

A happy ending though. All the chocolate remained in his tummy even after the turns on the roundabout and we all trundled off to the rest of our weekends. Good job team!

We've got woodchipping at St Richard's on Tuesday and we're back at Prince Philip on Wednesday - hope to see you there.

Until next time!

After I finish a good gym event I normally litter pick my way home so I did I two bags of litter between eirth train station and to my home

In glorious sunshine we ran the retro fairground-style games at the Discover Welling stall at the Danson House Easter Fayre.

Ashton and Julian took charge of Leap Frog: whack a lever with a mallet to propel a beanie frog onto the lily pad. As you might imagine there were some very enthusiastic attempts by the children 🐸🔨!

Marta and Sarah looked after the more sedate Roll-A-Ball game: roll balls down the ramp into numbered alleys to score 11 or lower or 20 or more ⚾️⚾️⚾️.

Children loved having a go, with some coming back for a second turn!

Happily there was an 'everyone's-a-winner' policy so we gave out plenty of stretchy frogs, bouncy balls and chocolate treats as prizes.

Takings from the stand will go towards community projects in Welling, so it was great for us to be playing our part in Discover Welling's fundraising 💰.