It was wonderful to be back out on another weekly Goodgym task with the lovely Annaliza & Maurice. Tonight we headed down to Tiny Forest Crewe for a bit of weeding!! The Tiny Forest is a great (national) project which aims to bring communities together while looking after our environment.

Before getting stuck into our task though, we set off for a brisk walk. I'd anticipated it to be about a mile long or so, but we got lost!!! So, we ended up doing almost 2 miles and arriving to the task 15 minutes late – oops! We were surprised by how easy it was to get lost in an area that we thought we knew reasonably well!! Luckily though, Ian, our task owner from the Tiny Forest had forgotten all about us coming this evening (I’d called him to tell him we were running late) until getting my message, so we all rocked up at the same time!! I was glad he’d forgotten as it eased my guilt for being 15 minutes late!

Our main job this evening was tackling the thistles – and boy, were there plenty to go at!!! You could barely see the trees for all the weeds, so we knew we were going to have our work cut out!! Annaliza and I doubled up our gloves but the thistles were so vicious that the spikes still went straight through them and rendered them useless!!

With loppers, choppers and rakes in hand, we set to work on getting rid of as many weeds as we could…. However, we soon realised that it wasn’t going to be done in an hour, or two, or three, lol! But, we did what we could and we gathered 2 large refuse bags full and more besides. I felt sorry for Maurice as he’d arrived to the task in shorts – hopefully you didn’t get too prickled to death Maurice! And thank you as always for coming so prepared with tools etc and for your willingness to take all the garden waste to dispose of. It was a productive night and I know there will be plenty of opportunities for us to come back and carry on with this task in the coming weeks!

Well done folks! Another successful task complete!

Have a great week. Lots of love, Nicola xxx