Pit the elder
24 GoodGymers made their way 5.0km to help their local community in Islington.
- Monday, 7th of March 2016
- Led by Simon Fitzmaurice
24 GoodGymers ran between 3-7km to help Thornhill Community Garden and Caxton House:
Report written by Caroline and Aidan.
Caroline - Operation Twig:
11 Goodgymers went to Thornhill Square and helped out Anna to remove massive ELDER (weed) trees. We managed to remove quite a lot in a short amount of time, release a good amount of stress and got to use some quite cool tools. Doing it in the dark adds to the challenge! After the task we did some gradual intervals around the square before heading back to base.
Tonight's debate was if you had a two course dinner what would you prefer out of starter, main and dessert? All combinations were mentioned depending on whether people prefer savoury or sweet. Also having a cheese board option could be a deciding factor as well.
Paul forgot the biscuits again. However, Aiden and Caroline brought the same type of biscuits for both of the groups without having spoken to each other first about first. It's like they can read each other minds... or simply get the same thing on offer from the co-op. They were caramel chocolate digestives. They didn't go down as well as the double chocolate digestives.
Aidan - Operation Speed Gardening:
13 of us set off to Caxton House led by Patrick with his musical lantern blasting the tunes.
Enjoying the music and the slightly up-hill run we made it there in great time but sadly the lovely people at Caxton weren't expecting us this week. Luckily after a few phone calls Rose, who lives close by, was able to come and meet us with tools in hand and got us set on task.
Two tasks were set, one group tackled one of the mighty bushes with secateurs whilst another worked at de-weeding the flowerbeds.
The time flew by and after a clean up we celebrated with a biscuit and a group photo. Everyone enjoyed the run back a bit more as it was all downhill. Lucky us!
Meeting up with the other group we stretched out and called it a day. The thoughtful Caroline had spare biscuits for us (little did she know we had already had some) and by sheer coincidence she had bought the exact same delicious caramel digestives...spooky.
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The caramel digestives were the best!! Though reading this I can't believe we didn't eat the second packet now.
Also WELL DONE CAROLINE!
Viewed from afar, this all looks wonderful (if a bit chilly). Well done all concerned
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