Rake hay while the sun shines

Last night we ran to the Sue Godfrey Nature Reserve in Deptford for some hardcore rake action. It was brilliant- a good core workout, an incredible sunset and a lesson about our local areas. Blooming fantastic.

London's Grand Canyon

This week we helped out Creekside Education Trust. You can look at their website here. You should- they do some fantastic stuff that you can get involved with. We were met by Nick from the Education centre. He has lived in Deptford for 40years and gave us an brilliant potted history of 'Deep Ford'. It's named after its tidal Creek.

The Creek’s waters, muddy banks and flood defence walls are home to a wide variety of wildlife and the Centre provide a range of educational opportunities for school children and low tide discovery walks for adults.

We were helping in Sue Godfrey Nature Park, a wildlife park that's home to 200 species of wild flowers, shrubs and trees and a wide variety of invertebrates including butterflies, grasshoppers and crickets! They are changing the way the park is managed to enable them to grow more wildflowers. To this end the grass has recently been mowed and they needed some help raking up the hay and tossing in the compost to enable more lovely stuff to grow in its stead.

Rakers and baggers

We split into teams of rakers and baggers and, under an incredibly atmospheric sky we got to work. We quickly filled the sacks and raced them over to the compost pile. It was a brilliant workout and Nick's explanation made the task feel really worthwhile. 40mins and roughly 6 full sacks of hay later we had to make our way for a run so collected all the tools, thanked Nick, and headed for the Thames.

Going through the Gears

On the way home we pushed the pace, experimenting with a few 'gears' or paces as we dashed along the Thames path taking in spectacular views of the city. Brilliant.

See you all next week!