In the years that we've been visiting Lewisham Unity it has been the coldest group run, the wettest group run and now the hottest group run!! A smaller group gathered at Glass Mill, only the bravest heading out to do good in that heat. We had a plan to run / walk and get to the task without feeling too hot and bothered.

The tasks for the evening were: - clear the grass of leaves, both front and back garden - mow the lawn - pick up litter - move the gravel to cover the bare spots

We got all the tasks ticked off and admired our giant bags of leaves we've collected over the years in the hope they'll turn into some excellent mulch.

Thanks team for heading back to Glass Mill without me whilst I went to check Molly hadn't melted in the heat!

On a hot Monday evening and with multiple reminders to bring water, 12 wonderful GoodGymers spent the evening clearing self seeding weeds at RUSS Community Land Trust.

Lucky for us, it was a short run to the task this evening and after a little warm up and discussion of what our favourite Olympic sport is, we were quickly on our way to RUSS.

It was a brand new group run task for us this evening and it's definitely a project that we'll be involved in over the coming months.

Our task for this evening was to clear the self seeding weeds to make some space for planting in the borders. Sue has some fabulous ideas of what is going to be planted and there's going to be 2 ponds. Time flies when you're pulling weeds up and shifting the woodchip.

There was time for a tour which revealed even more flower bed that we'll need to help clear. And then also time for a cup of tea and biscuit - thank you for treating us!

Next week it's a trip up the hill the Luxmore Gardens to continue the weeding.

Unlucky for some but not us, 13 GoodGymers gathered outside Glass Mill ready to tackle the hills to help the garden team at Seniors.

We skipped the warm up this week in favour for a steady run as a group to Seniors as it's a bit of a longer run and I'd spent too long chatting as usual!

At Senior's, Alice had a big list for us to get through which included: - watering the plants - admiring the plants in the poly tunnel after we did some hot bedding - clearing the weeds that were growing through the cracks in the building - planting tomato plants - covering the stems of the tomato plants with vaseline to protect from slugs - moving the fly tipped woodchip from the front of the building to near the poly tunnel

Anyone who wasn't there and happens to think "who would fly tip woodchip". It's the same question we thought and the same question the gardening team at Senior's though. Next time, a little request that they fly tip in a more convenient location for the gardening team. Luckily for us, it was a good workout moving it in wheelbarrows.

Most of us frequented the local drinking establishment whilst the rest of the group tackled the hills back to Glass Mill.

Big cheers for Khai who completed his longest run yet!! Amazing effort especially on those hills. We'll make sure next weeks group run is a short and flat route...it actually is!

We have a brand new group run next week to The Ladywell Unit to help in their garden. It's around 1km there so 2km in total.