The heat may have been huge, but the desire to GoodGym on a Monday eve is bigger!

Starting with a warm up in Richmond, we headed across the green and down to the river to run across the lock and back along the river on the north bank into East Twickenham, turning in to St Christopher's Fellowship.

We are very familiar with the garden there and get on with weeding, litter picking, cutting back and sorting out without needing instruction! The brambles had been weaving their way around everything and weeds were clearly loving the heavy rain followed by sunshine, until we turned up!

45 minutes later the large garden felt more under control again, even if our own temperatures were not so much!

We are back there next month to keep on top of the summer growth.

5 Goodgymers headed over to the Charity "Missing people", the only UK charity dedicated to supporting missing children and adults, and their loved ones. Packing goodie bags for an event they had planned was the mission. We quickly blitzed through this churning out 118 bags of good things before heading back out into the sunshine for a nice walk back to Richmond. Good to see Steph, and Nina back in the task groove. A fun task !

A night of rolling out the wheelbarrows at Petersham and Ham Sea Scouts. A peaceful jog along the riverside under a starry sky led us to the scout base where task owner Russell was ready with shovels, barrows and bags for one group to shovel soil that had collected on the driveway and bag it up to use elsewhere at the site, while another pair lifted and shifted some heavy concrete posts from one spot to another! Sea Scouts always means a good workout of some nature and tonight was no exception!

We are back there later this month to help further with outdoor tasks.

Is it too early to get excited for spring? At this task we got very excited when the fog lifted and we were enjoying blue skies with beautiful sunshine. At St Christopher’s, we were clearing an area of weeds and cutting back shrubs and trees. Closer to spring time, St Christopher’s will be planting new plants and vegetables. We enjoyed spending time here and then went off to get a coffee in Marble Hill Park.