You’ve put me in an orchard position...

Well that was blooming freezing BUT we still had 9 awesome runners come to out to plant bulbs in the freshly made orchard in Hanwell on behalf of Cultivate London this evening!

Bex didn't let the cold weather put her off and joined us for her first ever GoodGym run, big welcome and glad to have you with us!

No hanging around!

It was far too cold for any hanging around tonight so as soon as we were all present, correct and briefed with a map to the site, we set off to get ourselves warmed up on the 4km run to meet Rosie from the task.

She was all set ready to go with some bulb planting for us to do around the bases of the trees she'd already put in with another volunteer group earlier today as part of the Hanwell Community Orchard Trail and everyone was keen to get stuck straight in.

Last bud not least...

Special mention to Ronan who made a late appearance this evening after getting confused with the start time even though he's been to GoodGym LOADS of times! Great effort to run all the way down on his own to help finish up the job and then run all the way back with us making sure everyone finished the run safely by staying at the back. Thank you for your dedication!

It didn't take long to get everything planted and with very frozen hands and knees we packed up ready to head back in search of the pub for our monthly social which happens every first Tuesday of the month, a date for your diaries next time round!

We completed a couple of extra reps of Studland Road (for those of you that fancy a hard bit of hill training, here's the place to go in Ealing!) just to make sure we really earned the pizza that was waiting for us in the warm Red Lion!

Thank you to everyone for coming, see you all again next time!