Ian Moore

Ian & Stuart turned up at Mr A's house to move a rug, and ended up talking all the time about books! Well, the bookcase had to be half-emptied to lift it enough to slide the rug out from underneath, which gave us plenty of time to see the titles and chat with Mr A about his varied choices - Nabakov, Peter May biography, Folio Society sets - science, politics and classic literature nestling side by side.
Oh the rug? Easy peasy once the bookcase was done, rolled up out of the way and no longer a trip hazard.

Tonight we were spreading the word about St Christopher's Hospice's new C.A.R.E. building which has it's opening event for the public on Saturday!

We were armed with a few hundred flyers and a few roads and a couple of flat blocks to blitz on our group run, and even though there were two of us, we still smashed it in good time ⏱

As [Ian](Ian noted, we really did have quite the tour of 20th century buildings, from art deco flat blocks to old manor houses to ultra modern new builds along our designated routes!

Each taking a side, we jogged round the estates, with a little detour around the park, and racked up a solid 5k!

GREAT STUFF 👍👍

Mrs M's shopping list was clearly the treats list - including chocolate eclairs and lemon slices. Oooh, can I have some of that please? (photo from unsplash - shoutout to https://unsplash.com/@dilja96)

We had a lovely bunch this evening for a run, a good deed and even a bit of yoga!

We had a quick warm up in the park before making our way to St John's the Evangelist, a church with some big old wooden struts holding it up 😬 and also a lovely little 'meadow' out the side. It was an uphill run, but we managed it, partly distracting ourselves by talking about our lunch/dinner plans (apparently 5pm is too early for dinner?!)

When we arrived Helen showed us our task - bagging up a load of compost for it to be sieved to get the good stuff.

A Stick-y Situation

The challenge was to avoid bagging the sticks and twigs which were pretty well dispersed throughout the compost heap. And not forgetting a load of rubbish which made it's way in too.

After a solid 40 or so minutes, we called it a day having filled a lot of bags.

We then had a quick jog back to the park, for a lovely, relaxing yoga session with Emma, who took us through various positions which gave us a good stretch after our run - Thanks Emma!

And great running and shovelling and forking everyone!

Lovely to meet you all and hopefully see you again soon!

Next week there isn't a group run but we do have a Community Mission (same kinda thing but you meet there) on Tuesday for Anerley Town Hall and the Wednesday after that we may be lucky enough to go in the secret garden in CP Park!

Bromley group runs are back! They're on a different day for now and there's a new AA (hi👋) but we're back doing good in the places that need a hand.

Tonight 3 musketeers, met outside the Bridge House, we had a quick warm up in the park and then we hit the road, expanding our route to a nice but hilly 2k.

Our destination was Melvin Hall, a regular for GG Bromley, to do another regular task - weeding! 🌱

Melvin Hall is a community centre in Penge and has only recently opened its doors after a year of closure, so the weeds were tall and taking over the car park.

Equipped with hoes, shears and plenty of black bags, we got to work. Ian and Clare got off to a cracking start clearing the building side of little and large weeds whilst I pulled up a few big weeds round the corner. We gradually made our way around the perimeter until reaching the neighbour's fence. Slightly worried we'd pull the fence down because of all the overgrowing bushes, we got the shears out and tamed the beast just enough to make it look presentable!

After a solid 45 minutes, we bagged up the weeds and hit the road.

Weed did it!

I remembered to take some before photos, but not so many afters... but it looked impeccable 👌

NEXT WEEK we're heading to St John's Meadow to empty some compost bins onto some veg beds! Sign up here!