A chill but dry Wednesday evening in November saw 6 GoodGym-ers meet at Charlton House for a gardening task at Charlton United Reformed Church.

After a quick warm up & a biscuit-related ice breaker we were a-wafer a run to the Church garden to meet our host for the task.

This involved lots of weeding as the beds, grass and gravel pathways had become fairly overgrown; helpfully we were well-prepared with trowels, forks etc so made good progress, leaving the area tidier & ready for winter. We had great advice from the team at the garden who assured we were clearing weeds only and none of the pre-planted flowers in the beds.

Great work team - until next week for making short(bread) work of the next task! (no more biscuit puns I promise....)

What a beautiful morning to spend time with friends doing some good! Perhaps, said Jenny, it's natures way of easing us into the winter months now the clocks have gone back ☀️

After a morning where some of the team helped out with Junior Parkrun, getting very soggy socks and having a very quick tea at my flat, we joined forces and gave a welcome to Chloe for her first good deed, and Calvin who came back for more after joining the run on Wednesday! Really great to have you guys join us 😁

We shared our favourite cakes and then played a game of under and over before setting off on our 3.5km run to Mycenae Gardens.

And this was an extra special session because it was GoodGym's power couple Sarah's 350th and Johnny's 450th AND Marta's 800th! That's a lot of goodness they've brought to London - just think how many brambles they've taken out, how much litter they've picked and how many little hands they've high fived in that time! Absolutely amazing.

At Mycenae today we split into teams, one for weeding and the other for lopping branches off trees and dragging the branches down to the much loved dead hedge to keep curious children out of the wildlife protection area. Many hands make light work and before long we were packing up and having a lovely cake provided by the Friends.

All topped off with a lovely local coffee.

Excellent job team! Thanks to Calvin for the pics. On wednesday we're joining with GoodGym Bexley.

Until next time!