11 GoodGymers ride the heat wave and lift all the heavy things!

The new Triangle Site Community Garden is the latest project from the (wonderful) Global Generation team.

Set on a quiet side road off busy York Way in King's Cross, the Triangle is a permanent community garden that has been built from the ground up by volunteers, gardeners, builders, and more. It is haven for sustainable building and growing, and you should definitely visit!

This group arrived primed and ready to lift and move and repeat, which is what they did splendidly!

Our task started and ended at a large storage container sat right by the busy train tracks heading in and out of King's Cross, and we...

...emptied everything, including scary-looking machinery, crates upon crates upon crates, and many copies of Good Woodworking, and then we...

...carried umpteen planks of heavy wood into the container and organised them into perfect Jenga towers, and finally we...

...waved to many trains and received a few hearty waves in return!

Thank you, everyone!!

And a big thank you to Ariane, Emily, and Ralf for the wonderful photos!

Eight GoodGymers headed to beautiful Morden College, a residential home for older people, last night for an evening task that quickly became one of our favourites yet.

Meeting at Charlton House our ice breaker question was: 'If money were no object, where would you retire?' Answers ranged from Australia, Miami, Tenerife and London...and by the end of the evening, several of us had of course changed our answers to Morden College 😎

Special welcome to the crew to Mark on your first good deed with us - lovely to meet you and hope to see you back again soon!

After a 3km run, Meryl and Zoe from Morden College welcomed us warmly as we got stuck into sweeping the pathway and pruning the hedges outside the grounds. Lots of passers-by stopped to thank us while we worked, always a lovely reminder of how much these small acts matter. A section of the pathway is now looking much clearer and we'll be back to continue the job!

After the task, things got even better. Barry very kindly opened the bar specially for us, and we enjoyed a couple of rounds chatting away in the garden as the sun went down. Absolute bliss.

We’d love to come back soon to this haven in blackheath to continue along the pathway and maybe even help out in the beautiful gardens themselves, building planters for the veggies!

Next week we're gardening at St Alfege's School in Greenwich.

This bank holiday weekend, we've got:

• Volunteering at Parkrun and Junior Parkrun

• Gardening at Mycenae

• Weeding at Hervey Road

Until next time, wonderful people!