Waterloo? We thought we'd Abba go at gardening there and wow wow wow wow did we get a lot done
32 GoodGymers made their way 4.7km to help the Friends of Waterloo Park in Norwich.
- Monday, 29th of July 2019
- Led by Steven Hitcham
Another week of warm, sunny weather and another great turnout.
We had 4 new GoodGymers so a big welcome to Jonathan, Raffaella, Jennifer and Kevin.*
Elliot was completing his 25th good deed!
Andy and Helen shared back runner duties with the latter also being responsible for photography.
Darren was walk leader.
Tonight we were visiting the lovely Waterloo Park and were greeted by Jean and her great team of volunteers who look after the gardens there. I was sure to remind people to say "Hi Jean" on arrival... if only there was a Vera to say "Aloe" to and a Primrose to say "Evening" to as well.
We had a Community Mission here several weeks back and it's great to see the flower bed that we cleared has now been planted with lovely flowers and plants. It's not that often we get the chance to see the final outcome of our hard work.
There were plenty more flower beds that we had the task of clearing out this evening so the team assembled with tools (we had a whole array of them to pick from) and went off to get stuck in. There was also a group edging the existing flower beds and some others weeding them.
By the end of the evening we had cleared the the remaining overgrown flower beds, once they have been planted the gardens will look phenomenal. It has a real community feel about it and some of the local children are growing sunflowers in one of the other flower beds.
I look forward to going to have a look later in the summer to see how pretty it is.
Next week we're doing a litter pick on Marriott's Way.
Report written by Steven Hitcham
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Led by Steven Hitcham
I'm the Area Activator for GoodGym Norwich. I love running and socialising with the GG family.
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