Congratulations to Darren for hitting 50 good deeds today!

I think I may have mentioned before (once or twice) that I love my running club and today was a good example of why. What other club would allow you to put out a speculative request for a few litter pickers and find that a couple of days later that you have 13 people signed up and ready to sacrifice a few hours of their Bank Holiday to help out even if they live nowhere near the site being cleared?

Things were made even better as we were rewarded with a bit of karmic weather that ensured that we completed the longish run up the cycle path and the entire pick without a drop of rain. Ok, so there was a bit of dampness on the way back, but at least we had the promise of brunch and a warm room to warm up our frozen hands by then!

Todays last minute task came about following a plea for help on our Facebook page by Saffron of Eastville Park friends group. Since we already had tasks scheduled for the next couple of weeks it looked at first like we wouldn't be able to help out but seeing that an event had been set up for Good Friday it was great to be able to respond and get involved in tidying up Royate Hill nature reserve - a lovely green space tucked away alongside Greenbank Cemetery. Saffron had recruited a good few others so we all worked together to tackle both the lower section alongside the cemetery and further up along the viaduct as well. This included the Moon Temple - a place I didn't realise existed until today but provided for some quality photographs by Caroline!

I lost count of how many bags of rubbish we removed but I think it was 15-20 so a very productive morning and a seriously lovely group of people to spend it with.