On a cool evening 6 of us met outside the Old Factory Gym and set off towards St Mary's church in Broomfield.

Tonights task was to help them with some gardening and clearing some paving and walls.

Running at prime chatting pace we were soon there and met by Fay, David, Laurie and Sallyann already hard at work.

Martin, Ben and Joe quickly got to work raking and turning the soil by the church while Erin and Andy joined David scrubbing weeds and soil off the boundary wall. Although Erin got a great bit of 'mansplaining' of how she should being doing it by a passerby, lol. This was quickly put to rest by the fabulous group of gardening volunteers asking that we don't do as the passerby had said. (double lol)

With things packed away we were invited inside for drink and biscuits ( thank you ), then the runners were off back to base, and again at prime chatty pace we were soon back.

Well done all and hope to see you next week for some leafleting

Run Happy

Rich

God it was cold tonight! That didn't stop 12 of us eager to get litter picking though. We met at ARU and I bragged about winning a prize through beat the street and meeting the mayor before being knocked down a couple of pegs when I realised I forgot my beat card. No points for me today! Something also looked a little off, Russell trying out a new fashion strategy by wearing his t-shirt backwards.

We ran a route out to get to Odeon to meet Ben (excellent star wars hoody and all), Jess and Angela. We dived into the litter we could find. It was when we hit the B&M car park we hit the motherload. Andy found a mystery key for locker 96, Jess thought Angela had left a bottle from work..., Sallyann has a worrying tendency for finding the booze bottles, and a huge amount of the usual snack packaging. Bianca won the prize for most full bag. We posed for a photo by the green wall, Laurie questioned Martin's face which she declared confused.

We braced the cold weather to run back to base and hitting some more boxes on the way. But just when we thought the fun was over, Fay whipped it out! That's right, her bag of treats to celebrate her 100th good deed last week! Amazing work Fay! and thank you for the goodies, even brought some dairy free ones for Jenny. Joel also did 250 good deeds last week but he didn't even show let alone bring me anything...Can't wait to see the new t-shirt!

See you all soon.

On a glorious Spring evening we met outside the Old Factory Gym and admired Chris' new, crisp and odd smelling Goodgym tshirt while discussing what happened during the social on the weekend at the beer festival. If you would like to know maybe David can tell you.

With the legends that are Fay , Sallyann and Andy being our awesome walking crew they set off with litter pickers and bags to meet us at Meteor way.

The rest of us set off on a longer route to start Beating the streets.

We reconvened and began picking (and continued chatting) during which conversation turned to why Chris' Dj name is DJ Wolf Leg. I cannot say why here because it would literally blow your mind. But please feel free to ask Chris if you would like to know.

With bags full (and photos on slides taken) we made our way back to base, said our goodbyes and looked to see how we are doing on the Beat The Street app. Great is the answer.

Thanks all for coming and hope to see some of you at Parkrun this weekend and next Wednesday where Laurie will be the legendary run leader.

Run Happy

Rich