Smack My Ditch Up
7 GoodGymers made their way 2km to help the St Nicks in York.
- Wednesday, 30th of January 2019
- Led by Nicola Gover
Arriving slightly late from the previous mission, I just missed everyone and had to be rescued by Mitch from wandering a dark St Nick's approaching any strange spade-wielding people I came across! I arrived to find the team hard at work already, only missing the POW camp songs to make the image complete (some re-workings of Hi Ho Hi Ho were experimented with).
The task was to finish off the ditch from last night, allowing water from the path to drain into our lovely wetland pond. Stef enthusiastically got stuck in at the path end, informing us all the army taught him was digging and drinking. We just about managed to redeploy him to the other end before he dug a full 8ft deep trench at the top of the slope!
Craig, Mitch, Stef and Emily got stuck in with the mattocks, smacking up the hard packed soil and rubble, and we all dug dug dug until we were starting to disappear into our own hole. Much of the rubble seemed to consist of bricks and glass jars, so we picked out a few bits of litter too :-)
In no time at all the trench was complete, and we posed for "the ascent of GoodGym", for reasons which now escape me, and we all disappeared off into the night.
Credit (blame?) for the report title goes to Mitch.
Report written by Nicola Gover
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