A Bloom With A View 🌺

Bexley News

• Tim is recovering well! He loved the card we sent from Goodgym Bexley, and we send our best wishes!

• Some of us will be running at Malling parkrun on Saturday. Anyone is welcome to join.

• Some of us will be running the Shoreditch 10km on Sunday. You can still sign up here

• The Sunday after is the Myra Garrett 10km, on our home turf in Danson Park. Some of the money raised is donated to Bexley Mencap. You can enter the race here or you can sign up on the day Dont forget to sign up on the Goodgym site here

• Next week we will be heading over to Danson Youth Centre. There's always plenty for us to do there so prepare your gardening gloves and mosquito spray! Sign up here

Back to tonights run...

As we met up at Crook Log ready for tonights run, the Goodgym Bexley team just kept coming! After a quick warm up and headcount, we had a total of 15 Goodgymers ready for tonights task. There were two groups heading on two different routes to tonights task.

The runners - were taking in a loop around the outside of Danson Park, conveniently passing the outdoor gym equipment. We used this to our advantage and had a quick go on the apparatus as we passed!

The walkers - were taking a more direct route, straight to the English Gardens, with the aim to beat the runners...and they did. By the time the runners arrived, the guys were already hacking away at that willow tree that keeps growing more and more each time we go back!

The gardens were buzzing tonight with lots of the regular volunteers from the Friends of Danson group as they are busy prepping for the *London in Bloom * judging on Thursday.

Digging for Victory

We split into teams in order to try and tackle multiple areas of the garden.

• Trimmers - Cutting back the willow branches from the path, so that people are able to walk under them, not through them!

• De-tanglers - Pulling up the bindweed that had taken over some of the flower beds

• Tidying-uppers - The clean up crew, following the ones making a mess with a broom, wheelbarrow and a bucket to pick up all the off cuttings

• Diggers - Turning over the soil, pulling up the weeds, and trying to dig up the big roots which had been trimmed back.

By the time the task was over we had made a big difference to the Garden!

We have a community missions coming up towards the end of the month back at the English Gardens. Check it out here

Thanks for coming tonight and for all your hard work!

See you next time!

Happy Running!

Sarah 🏃🏻‍♀️