Come Mr GG, Pon-dy Reed Play! Come Ms GG, won't you dig that flower bed up?

30 brilliant runners covered loads of ground to complete THREE tasks across Lambeth

First up, massive congrats to David for winning July's Shit Prize of the Month (SPOTM)! His massive contribution to the GG shindig did not go unnoticed and his new t-shirt was more than a Lidl deserved!

Task 1 run report written by Beth: 6 runners, 3 past winners and 1 current SPOTM champion, opted for the short run down to Stockwell to help the Lambeth GP food co-op. Our task was simple, move three tonnes of fresh compost from bags into two planters. Spurred on by his new T shirt, David, got stuck in, there was nothing Lidl about his contribution. After a solid 45 minutes our work was done and we headed off on the short run back to base.

Task 2 run report was written by Katie: We headed 2.5km along to Ruskin Community Garden near Camberwell. It's a lovely spot and task owner Justin was very pleased to see us. Our job was to turn over some old beds and carefully remove the pretty marigolds, which were then decoratively planted around the edges of other beds. We spread some lovely fresh compost onto the newly turned beds, ready for some new planting. After a short fitness session, we headed home for stretches.

Task 3 run report was written by John: This week 12 of us wanged it up the hill to Palace Road nature gardens to see Gerry, who has south Lambeth’s most impressive collection of sharpened utility blades. He’s got scythes, sickles, secateurs and loppers, machetes and hoes and rakes and forks, oh my. One team dredged the lake for weeds and found a newt. Alice donned wellies and got in and then they all smelled. Everyone else was on some sort of attacking-the-overgrowth-with-Gerry’s-blades duty, plus litter picking, because of course. Steve and Elise popped up at one point, and then just like that, they were gone.

TOP WORK LAMBETH! Also a shout out to Tom Benson for his mad balloon animal skillz....