Back in the dim and distant past of the "Before Times" (before Covid) apparently one of the first GoodGym York community missions was to put down woodchip between the trees in the orchard at Alex Lyons House in Tang Hall to make it easier for the elderley residents to get out into the orchard. Turns out of you leave woodchip for long enough it turns into soil and the weeds love it, so they all needed hoicking out. And so the circle of GG life begins again: will we be getting called back to put down some new woodchip? Watch this space!

As always, we cracked through a huge amount of unskilled labour in an hour, and in the dark at least it looked great. The soil was stuffed full with super long roots from the weeds that needed dragging free (long enough to skip with, sadly no pictures * UPDATE: Tom has sent a picture of Leanne root skipping :-) *. By the end all four compost bins were full and a huge bonus pile created.

What did we learn tonight? We learnt that Amy Tew has done 50 good deeds, and does a cool, pointy superhero impression. We learnt that Mitch likes things "green and firm" (apples, I hope) and is not as strong as Nikki. And I learnt that my gloves have a massive hole letting the nettles in.