Fantastic to welcome a new runner tonight, please give it up for...

Phoebe

Give Phoebe a whoop, hola and cheer!

We headed over to Pistmoor Road this evening to meet with MARVELOUS MALCOLM who had already been on site for a while getting the worst of the litter onto the pavement for us to swoop in and take the 'glory picks'.

There were some true treats in store with some very old rubbish which was fast becoming part of the geology of the area, had we not have got in there!

A decent pile was presented at the end for the council to later come and pick up.

Until next time, happy running! :)

Something a tad different this week...

On a stormy looking Bank Holiday Monday we headed up hill to the SUSTRANS lock up to help Simon with sorting the SUSTRANS tools to make it easier for Sustrans volunteers to get into the lock up, find what they need and get out to do the fantastic work that they do all over the city helping to look after the active travel routes all over Sheffield.

After some discussion and tool placement trying we settled on some designs for how we would recycle/upcycle bookshelves and pallets to store and organise the various different tools that are in the lock up.

By the end of our time at the lock up it was already looking loads better and more organised and we think with one more session there, we should have a really useful and well organised lock up for the volunteers to use.

Until next time, happy running! :)

Friends of Whirlowbrook Park put on lots of fun family activities today for the Easter weekend. There was archery, face painting, a book sale and the main attraction, the Easter Egg trail!

Families followed the bunny hop footprints around the park to find eggs with letters on, then rearranged the scrambled egg letters into a seasonal punchline, which they then exchanged for choccy eggs:

What do you get if you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole?

Our volunteer role was marshaling the car park, directing visitors to free spaces and also controlling traffic where the trail crossed the road.

On a lovely Sheffield eve we headed out to meet Karen Malone and two other keen Pitsmoor Pickers in a new area of town to our usual spot to get picking!

Tom was the can man for the eve, collecting as many cans as possible to be recycled and cashed in for money that goes back into equipment for the Pitsmoor Pickers.

Amongst items found were individual shoes, suspicious coloured liquids in bottles, the all now common catering sized N02 dispensors.

It was great to be in a new area and to meet some new pickers!

Until next time, happy running! :)

3 Goodgymmers met on a sunny Sunday morning to help Andrea with weeding a local patch of green. Andrea was very knowledgeable about all the different plants and bushes (many new to me & Rachel). We took a segment each, focusing on pulling out green alkanet whilst trying to leave the bluebells in. Bags filled up, pavement and road swept, we managed to complete the task and Andrea was happy. Well done Farzeen on your 5th task and thanks to Rachel for visiting from Sheffield.