The calm after the storm

A big welcome to Jane who joined us for the first time tonight. We welcome Jane's gardening skills and the energy and smiles she brings to our group and look forward to seeing lots more of you in the coming weeks and months. ( she asked to be added to the whats app groups!! )

This evening was our penultimate visit to this pretty and interesting church garden this year, which we have adopted as a bit of a project within our group. Rik and Val are Friends of St Botolph's and always give an appreciative, warm welcome to us. Big shout out to Sue from the friends of Heene Cemetery who always brings tools and stays on to help too. What a wonderful team !

*10K hero's and run Kudos *

Many congratulations toJohn, Sue and Anne who did the Littlehampton 10k yesterday and Rickywho did a 15 k off road run in preparation for his forthcoming half marathon.

Don't touch my tree!

With Paul away on his holidays I had been given strict instructions that no one was to touch 'his tree' in his absence... and no one did! Luckily it wasn't on Val's agenda for this evening - It would been a brave person to have touched it had we been asked to!

Digging in

The team quickly got stuck into the task. John and Sarah were in charge of moving the fencing away from the area that we had been asked to dig over. Sue W, Belinda, Sue A and Barbara cleared an area of brambles for the proposed storage of the fencing just before I whipped Sue A and Sarah away for a run. We even managed to persuade Peter ( from Heene cemetery)to come too!

Ricky, Jane, Val and Rick together with Sue ( from Heene Cemetery ) did some great digging over and weeding meaning the greens bin quickly got filled and the compost got well topped up too.

Rik messaged to thank me the following

Thanks for the great work of GoodGym tonight , Julia. See you in October.

I will see you all next week at Lindfield House at 6pm.

Have a great week.

Julia xx