Report Title : Big Hedge-party(birthday time)

Five goodgymers warmed up at the Chiswick townhall to run roughly 1.3km and meet two Goodgym cyclists and Jo from Wild Chiswick at the corner of Spencer Road(Grove Park Area). Prickly community mission tonight to deliver leaflets at houses around Grove Park Area. Raising awareness about creating safe hedgehog habitats locally. Jo handed the leaflets to the team and they all started the prickly shuffle around the area with a mixture of running and walking. Once the team covered the area Jo suggested, they meet again with her and Jo was very thankful to have a team of Sonic Hedgehog’s running around to support their organization. The team ran and cycled back to Chiswick to stretch and go for food and a drink, not to forget a piece of cake as it was Leticia birthday recently. The cake was not Sonic the Hedgehog, but Colin the Caterpillar. It was unspiketably good!!! Great achievement for Emily as reached 300 good deeds today!!!

Twas a green, grassy and glorious Richmond Group Run, with runners, walkers and cyclists gracing our sponsored plots in Buccleuch Gardens, Richmond for a spot of evening weeding.

It was a task of two grassy halves. Starting at the Arcade everyone dropped to ground level and used cutlery knives to lever out plantains from the Arcade lawn. Hunter was definitely not the only one assuming a downwood dog position.

At the Three Pigeons Plot , the weeding was reversed with the main aim removing unwanted grass. Thankfully, this was somewhat easier and more dignified.

Welcome newcomers Georgie and Naomi who proved to be naturals at plantain pulling and grass busting . A shout out for Teresa who achieved a perfect 10 for her work clearing around the bollard at The Three pigeons. And we were all in awe and wish the very best of luck to our run leader and area activator Liz who revealed she has qualified for the Hyrox World Championships in Nice in June.

Gorgeous flowers spotted but not identified during the task included Veronica (spike speedwell), a compact perennial with a spike of pink flowers and purple Centaurea, a perennial cornflower with vivid, heliotrope purple, thistle-like petals.

Muchas Gracias to The Tap Tavern for allowing us to stow bags and for hosting our monthly social after the Group Run.