We started today's session by saying our geeky interest in honour of Embrace your Geekness day! There were mentions of spreadsheets, cloud spotting and jigsaws to name a few.

We also congratulated the group of goodgymers who completed the 58 mile ultra in the lakes in the heatwave and the group who ran up and down Snowdon despite their race being cancelled.

Mitch then led off a small splinter group to Acomb Library.This is what they got up to-

We arrived at the library not to new raised bed, but old rotten beams of wood. We quickly got to work moving them from the garden and out to the drive. These will now be used for the path at fishponds woods.

After half an hour the garden was left crystal clear.

The remainder of the group headed to New Walk to drag many sacks of grass to the collection point. In goodgym style this was completed much quicker than expected so we headed off for a bit of fun fitness in the form of goodgym scrabble.

Despite stretching it out we still had a nice early finish so a few thirsty folk headed to the pub where in true geek style, Paul showed some strava tricks which got us debating each others' popularity!

Another glorious morning at the Tiny Forest. Alastair strimmed the edge path. Becca & Claire pulled blanket weed from the pond. Charlotte & Becca refreshed it with 58 pints of the finest Holgate tap water. The entire pile of woodchip was moved & the edge & entrance paths were completed. Plenty of damselflies and many varieties of butterfly (including painted ladies, small tortoiseshell & meadow brown) flying amongst the wildflowers kept us company. Thankyou all for a very beneficial but lovely relaxing morning. The Tiny Forest is not so little now and is looking very verdant.