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📍Marston Forest Garden OX3 0PW
Enhancing the natural flora of the Marston Forest Garden
Wed 23rd Oct at 6:00pm
Oxford Report written by Anwen Greenaway
This Wednesday we had a spooktacular plogging poster distribution challenge.
Here at GoodGym Oxford we like a bit of healthy competition, and nothing quite gets that spirit fired up like a scavenger hunt with a purpose. With Halloween just around the corner we had a ghost-themed hunt this week. We divided into 2 teams: Runners and Walkers. Each team was given a list of haunted locations, 5 GoodGym posters, a litter bag and 2 litterpickers. Points were awarded for every poster pinned up, every haunted location visited, and for spotting a variety of Halloweenesque decorations (ghosts, broomsticks, pumpkins, cats and witches hats). There was also a requirement to clear up litter as you buzzed around the City.
It was neck-and-neck between the teams on posters displayed and locations collected, but the walkers truly spectacular 50 pumpkins had them whipping the win out from under the runners feet.
Our brains got a good workout from the strategising, our legs got moving, litter was picked, we learnt about the history and mythology of Oxford, and GoodGym was publicised...a win on many levels!
Sat 12th Oct at 1:24pm
Oxford Report written by Julia
Mrs H hadn't finished reading one of the books but is excited to see what happens at the end!
Wed 18th Sep at 6:00pm
Oxford Report written by Anwen Greenaway
Love it or loath it (the bridge, not the location!), no-one can deny that every session at the community allotment at Hogacre Common gives us a good stair workout! Hogacre is tucked in between railway line and flood plain. The access is across a pedestrian bridge with many steps, making deliveries to the garden challenging.
Items we have been asked to carry across the bridge in the past include sofas and horse manure, so tonight's task of shovelling woodchip into boxes to carry across was pretty easy by comparison. We used the first loads to spread woodchip around the boggy entrance to the site, then refilled the boxes and delivered them to the garden gate for use around the beds and pathways.
Meanwhile, Django the spaniel kept a watchful eye on the GoodGymers weeding and mulching the garden beds; everyone's favourite supervisor!
Welcome back Axelle!
Sun 27th Oct at 10:00am
Wed 18th Sep at 6:00pm
Wed 28th Aug at 4:00pm
Oxford Report written by Julia
I did a mid-week delivery for Mrs H as I was imminently about to go on holiday to Jersey. I had a lovely chat about it with her, as Jersey was where Mrs H went on her honeymoon, so she has many fond memories of it! I look forward to telling her all about the holiday on my next visit, not least because now I know how to pronounce the names of half the places!
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