Mingling with Shingles

10 lovely humans gathered at Flirt this evening...briefly, as they would be shutting early for a change. So with Fredrika already signed up as back marker she added to her super hero status by offering her work office as a safe place for some of our bags! Thank you for your help Fredrika !!

We had the lovely John back from his travels as well as Janet. Great to have you guys back!

Fredrika and Daryl overcame the White Star Halfish Marathon this weekend. 23km of gruelling hills with stunning views and sunshine to distract them. Amazing effort guys and well done for still making it to the group run! Anyone have another run coming up?

We had gardening on the agenda this evening and Mike from Grounded Enterprises came up with a great task for us. Shoveling loads of shingles and soil.

We went the scenic route along the beach front to Boscombe Pier, then did some stair work to the top of the over cliff then ran back on ourselves to the eco hotel The Green House. There they had three large elevated flowerbeds that needed to be filled up with soil...however, first a layer of shingles had to be put down on one side, then covered with regular soil (also donated). Once this was done, we had to shift the compost soil on the other half of the flower bed onto the regular soil.....then shovel lots of shingle onto the now empty half....then shovel regular soil back onto the layer of shingles....then slide across half of the compost soil.......pheeewwwwww....managed to follow any of that? Well, the gang made it look easy.

Two large flower beds filled to the top in 40 minutes. Covered with sheets and netting to stop all the pine needles from covering it all.

Great teamwork to take turns at shoveling from one bag to the wheelbarrow, to raking soil, so spreading shingle and also in coming up with the title for the run report. Thanks to Phil to originally coming up with it and to Daryl for being our navigator! We'd be in Ferndown without one and I'd be up all night without the help of the other!

Next week we are doing a leaflet drop for the YMCA as well as our very own GoodGym, to help spread the word! Come and join us!!

Well done everyone, new location tonight and new route back too! Have a great week!