THREE NUTS AND A GUERRILLA

The first Saturday run for the New Year and although the rain was falling and many of Goodgym Bath are hard at work revising for exams at the moment. Three super nutters took on the 6 k run and three tasks out to The Nuttery at Smallcombe at the foot of the skyline for Transition Bath. Who working in partnership with the National Trust we have planted 37 nut trees on an access site available to the local community. Have a look at the Nuttery Scrapbook here.

A very warm welcome to Cosmo who came in the rain for his first run with us at Goodgym Bath and the lovely Emily who`s a regular and committed coach runner .

A quick intro whilst we waited to catch anyone arriving a little late, then the Faithful Three headed out towards the Warminster road and access route to the Canal taking in The first of the Guerrilla Gardens at Claremont house.Transition Bath have developed ‘guerrilla gardening' sites in unused spaces around the city filled with vegetables, fruit bushes, trees and herbs that are planted, watered and harvested by local residents.

We arrived at the Nuttery to be greeted by our host Virginia, who explained all about the Nuttery and how it started. Our task here was to cut hazel twigs to weave into a compost area at the Guerrilla garden situated at Gravel walk. Cosmo and Emily soon had the twig task licked and moved onto shifting some hay into a tidy pile ready for composting, this was a great work out for the arms. The group spent 25 minutes at The Nuttery before helping Virginia load the Hazel and equipment into her car ready to take out to the next task at the Guerrilla Garden on Gravel walk. The race was on TOP GEAR STYLE to run from the Nuttery across Bath along the Canal and up to Gravel walk where the second Guerrilla garden was situated and Virginia had managed to beat us there and unloaded her car ready for task number Three. I guess she won then. Emily set to weaving the Hazel into a compost area with a little help from Steph as we were a little thin on the ground and thankfully managed to avoid poking Emily in the eye, whilst Cosmo took to planting a Blackcurrant bush and clearing weeds on the pathway ready to add to the compost heap.

A quick group photo before the final spurt back through the city and to the leisure centre for a good stretch and a reminder to get paired and do more good deeds. Great Job today , well done Goodgym Bath