Today’s group run took us to the Skyline path to help lay some hedges.

Unfortunately, owing to some communication difficulties, we didn’t get to do any hedges today.

Undaunted, we turned those frowns upside-down (evidence: see animated slide show at the top of this page), and took lots of secondary benefits from today's activity anyway. We went for a nice walk instead, and picked up [a modest quantity of] litter along the way.

Old friends

On the way home I stopped for a coffee, and bumped into erstwhile Bath GoodGymer, Rob. As a result Rob has now signed up for Tuesday’s training run, on a if-he-can-find-time basis. Might see you there.. 😀

New friends

A warm welcome to first-timers Katherine and Isabelle. It was great to have you along, and fair play to volunteering to run up that massive hill as your first ever GoodGym interaction, Isabelle 👍

Tonight's social trail run braved sub-zero temperatures and frozen trails for another lovely trot around the Bath Skyline route.

This time saw epic clear skies, a rather stunning crescent moon, and best of all very little mud (it being frozen solid and all that!)

The ground was still frozen, as were most of the water butts, so once again this was more of a site maintenance visit at the Walled Garden.

But there are always things to do and Wayne came with a plan ... move a big pile of cardboard across site!

The cardboard is at the heart of the no-dig strategy for the garden and forms the bottom layer for all the beds. But there’s still a whole heap of the stuff left and it was currently sitting where a pile of wood chips will soon want to be delivered. So our main job today was to shift it, layer by (frozen together) layer over to one of the concreted foundations which has yet to find its future building. And generally tidy and square up the pile in the process.

After that we had time for a sit down and a long natter about the type of community work Grow For Life does at the site, before finishing up with a general tidy up and managing to find the one liquid water butt from which we could water the compost piles.

Another successful and lovely morning out at the garden!