It was another lovely summer evening at Marlpit Community Gardens.

The main take was to do some weeding around the vegetable patches.

We were kindly treated to some red lettuces.

We definitely needed rain but not at 8am when Parkrun is setting up & when you’re timekeeper trying to keep your screen dry! Luckily we’re blessed with lovely Catton Parkrun umbrellas. Numbers were down on the usual, but still 214 people came out to walk/run/jog their way around. Well done everyone it was also my 700th Goodgym deed today, which we will celebrate at Tuesdays Group Run along with our Area Activator Steven H 40th birthday

it was our own Goodgymer Alinas 250 parkrun today co in-siding with a charity cake sale. Great combination. Roisin, Alina, & Bobby did a great job volunteering. Also our very own Goodgymer Kathryn Jervis ran today with her "hens" good luck on your wedding

We welcomed Grant to his first GoodGym deed and what a great one to pick as your first.

We met Will, the Mousehold Warden, who then took us well into the depths of Mousehold Heath (I'm glad he was there as I would have got everyone lost otherwise!).

There were 3x tasks for the team to get stuck into this evening.

1) Pop and Pull out self seeded birch trees (which will be replanted in more appropriate areas of the heath). 2) Remove some cut back gauze bushes (this is where the gauntlet gloves were very much needed). 3) Pull up some early growing bracken.

It was a very sociable evening with a great turn out of people.