Last night, 9 of us headed out for what turned out to be quite the ponding experience.

Our mission was to give the pond some much-needed TLC. There was plenty of hard work involved, including clearing out the weeds and digging out the stubborn ones, trimming back the ivy, and giving the area around the tomato plants a good weed.

Mark had been endeavored to take it easy on those shoulders, but of course, he couldn't help getting stuck in and digging deep to get to the root of the issue. As he reported today: "digging up those plants definitely took its Pond of Flesh from me.”

There was plenty of newt-ural territory covered in the comments, with everyone getting involved and coming up with increasingly terrible (and therefore brilliant) pond puns. 🐸🤓

The only downside was that it got dark within a few minutes, making it rather difficult to see what we were doing, but we managed to keep the pondemonium under control and no one fell in so that's a success in my book!

A really great difference made last night - thank you everyone - let's not let all these puns water down the achievement… 😉

On Saturday as well as the Parkruns, we've got Clearing up at the Pet Cemetery and weeding at Hervey Road

On sunday we've got Clean up Charlton.

Until next time!

Rachel

Tuesday saw Good Gym back at TRAID in Lewisham, a pre-loved clothes shop that helps to raise money for projects around the world.

3 keen volunteers turned up ready to sort the clothes ready for transfer to a different shop but, wait, were we late? On arrival the racks were already mostly empty, as the regular volunteers had started early. Undaunted, we adapted to the situation and were soon put to work cleaning the racks of dust that was probably there when Methuselah was a boy, The racks clean, we moved on to cleaning the floor and soon everything was looking spick and span.

There were four GG members litter picking in three boroughs today, Cecilia and Ivar in Greenwich, Adi in Lewisham and Paul in Southwark.

Cecilia and Ivar picked an area just outside Sutcliffe Park, where they had been at parkrun. They managed to collect a whole bag of recyclables and another bag of general waste - impressive work! They also spread the word about GG a passer by who congratulated them on their work!

Adi was out early in Sydenham's Mayow Park and found much less litter but left the park beautiful and clean!

Paul was out with his trusty bag for life and litter picker with friends from The Green Runners after Southwark parkrun. The bag was filled twice before heading back to home ground. '