Rave Diggers

Post-funeral, we started tonight's run thinking about the best things about the Queen. Highlights included her cheeky comments, quality bling and impeccable dress sense. The title of this report actually has no relation to the funeral and was instead based on the fact that John (from Crystal Palace Museum) had a broken headtorch which was stuck on flashing mode. Not ideal when you have a slightly dangerous task such as this evenings...

We ran straight to Crystal Palace Museum and into the old water tower. The plan is to clear all the vegetation out so that it can become part of the museum that the public can safely visit. After a couple of trips, we were now down to a layer of soil which has proven deceivingly hard to remove.

Roots Manoeuvre

Armed with shovels, shears and a pick axe we got to work carving up the carpet of roots into squares, rolling it up and trying whatever we could to get down to the concrete below. It was a seriously good workout - Maxim even made sparks with his energetic shoveling.

We filled up a few buckets with roots and they were added to the pile and lots of brick bits made up another pile.

When our time was up, John explained the plan for the space. We had some other ideas too... a music venue, cafe, art installation space...

Crystal Palace really is the place to be when GoodGym are around. 💪🤩