Breda, Augustin and Maxime were back at Baron's Pond joined by Beatriz from Brent for the day! 2 parkrun, 3 coffees and 4 goodgymers on the way were all that was needed to get the task going. Today's goal: planting bluebells in the place the team cleared a few weeks ago! when doing the digging we had massive discovery: a traffic cone deep underground. Once removed we planted the 100+ bulbs and used dirty pond water to prepare the ground. As some time was left the team also cleared trees and other overgrown vegetation. Mission accomplished, next stage in spring for the flowers!

three tasks in one to keep cricklewood clean

Samina and Pete met at Beer n Burger in Willesden Green and jogged down to Kilburn to meet Beatriz Kamil and Ajay. Ajay showed us where to work and we cut back a huge bush in a planter and cleared all the cuttings. We then completely weeded another planter. Well done everyone 👏 the planters looked so much better afterwards 👏

A new location for Goodgym but one that may become a regular: The Brentford beeline!

A fee Goodgymers came to give a hand the group.of fierce volunteers aiming to transport this old abandoned railway into an accessible public space first for school kids but for all to enjoy in the long run.

To that end, many got to the tedious task of clearing out the path of thorns, weeds and other accident-prone features of the path while others were stopping ivyes from taking over all the trees. The least delicate of them all were sent to go digging old rails from stacks of rubbles. Thos rails may be as old 1850 (Brunel time!), judging by their gauge (tall from modern standards.

After 1h30 of hard work, it was time for a group pic and call it a day. Until next time!