A small group of Mansur, Andrada, Benjamin and myself braved the cold 3km run to Thorlands for more wood chipping and path laying... We met Sam and Maria there and that is where the fun really started.

We were locked out of the woodchip area! We didn't have the correct padlock code to get the woodchip, so we started preparing the ground for the woodchip laying and Ben started litter picking...

But then we got a call from Simon, who was having a well deserved break in sunny Portugal, we were able to get in and get four wheelbarrows of woodchip to cover the path area. Thanks Simon!

We headed back through the cold South London streets before heading home.

On a cold winters night 8 GoodGymers met at Old Spike. After a quick warm up we headed on a 2.5k run through East Dulwich to the Tiny Forest in Peckham Park. Our task for the evening was weeding around the planted sapling trees so they are able to grow and not get out competed by plants and brambles. This wasn’t the easiest in the dark but we made do with head torches and lights. We are looking forward to revisiting in the Summer to see the trees flourishing!

It was our first group run to Thorlands of the year and there was 7 of us for the run (with Paul and Rosemary meeting us there). We took the same route that we took for our visit back in November.

Simon was there to meet us with the tools ready. We split off into two groups with one group clearing the leaves off the path in the Kitchen Garden to create a new pile that we covered with cardboard and a pallet to help it mulch down faster. The other group ran wheelbarrows of woodchip from the Community Garden which we then spread on the cleared path.

Simon sends thanks for our work and we’ll see him again later in Feb.