This week's group session brought together a team of eight, four runners and four walkers, to take on a task at the Penrose Roots to Recovery garden.

It was just 2km to the task where task owner Peter was waiting for us. The team at the garden had taken a delivery of woodchips which had just been dumped in a big pile and needed tidying up into big sacks, so we all got to work with shovels and started clearing up the mess.

With a great effort from the team we filled up six big ton bags in no time at all and were able to make a start on a second task, clearing a patch of weeds that had grown on the potato patch.

But soon our time was up and we had to head off again, with a few freshly dug potatoes in our pockets as a reward!

This week our planned cemetery seed sewing task was postponed so we were instead tasked with weeding a large roadside flowerbed.

After meeting up on Bute Street we had a run the long way round to the task while our two walkers went directly there. Recombined at the task our team got stuck in pulling the weeds from the bed and clearing up the litter within.

There were no brambles to deal with but the weeds had lots of very fine thorns that were very good at penetrating gloves! Pressing on despite them we massed a great big pile of weeds for collection by the council and exposed some Hollyhock plants that were still just about flowering and spread their seeds underfoot so we should see some more here next year.

After the task we headed to a park for a quick test of a new light based game to brighten up the dark evenings before heading home.

3 of Luton's Goodgym team, popped in to help a local charity with a couple of tasks this Friday evening.
After moving 3 filing cabinets from one room to another using a rather suspect set of wheels, the team set about hanging a TV on the wall in another room. There was a little bit of musical chairs to be played when making room to complete the task but eventually we were able to drill down and get that tv mounted on the wall. Another great effort team and the charity were really grateful 🙏