Tonight 5 GoodGymers ran or cycled to the beautiful Bowthorpe Community Garden.

We met Sally & Tim who kindly provided refreshments and nectarines! They had a list of tasks so we split into 2 groups.

One group dusted down 2 wooden benches before giving them a fresh coat of Red Cedar paint.

The second group cut back and pulled up thistles that were taking over the area, before filling wheelbarrows and taking the waste to compost.

With an hour nearly up, Woody finished painting the panels behind the benches, and Ian & Jordan filled two planters with 8 wheelbarrows of soil.

It was an impressive effort by all, and much appreciated by the community group.

358 people, many dressed in bright colour for this Norwich Pride weekend, managed 5k in very hot conditions

As the regular RDs here were away on their well earned holidays we were blessed with Parkruns Norfolk Activator as RD and a number of volunteers from a new Junior Parkrun at Dereham starting up next month to see our Juniors work. Us two Goodgymers were able to give our experience as volunteers to them. 5 juniors ran the course today in lovely cooler condions

Tonight we headed to the beautiful Marlpit Community Garden. 9 GoodGymer's ran, walked or cycled along the traffic free Marriotts Way.

The large volunteer-led community garden, with orchard and allotments, had recently been mowed. So we began raking up the dried grass into large piles that will be used as mulch for the fruit trees. Its amazing what we can do in an hour! There was also time to transport flatpacked cardboard to the far end of the site using wheelbarrows.

Well done to first timers, Jordan, Ben and Andy. Hopefully we will be back at this lovely venue in the near future.

todays task was clearing/tidying up the frontage to Greengields Community centre, inckuding the gated front area to make way for artificial turf area. it was overgrown with weeds which we managed to clear , except for a couple if stumps which we were not able to dig out they were left to be takdn out later. The steps were weeded, all edges cleared and the paved frontage was de weeded. 3 full bags of debris was cleared and we left feeling proud

A return to Mr M's to trim the lawn a bit more. There were some stubborn weeds coming back which needed trimming again. I offered to pull them instead but Mr M did prefer them mowed back so it looked like it did before.

I did this and he was very happy and things look lovely and tidy again.