A crew of 5 Goodgymmers lent a hand at Traid, and then picked up a few more stragglers as 5 became 8 to help at the Westbury Banks Nature Reserve.

Getting Twiggy With It

The evening started bright and early at 6pm for Nurjehan, Charlie, Neil, and Gramps - and not so bright and early for young Dharmesh who, never not on fleek, turned up fashionably late. With his winning smile, however, it's hard to hold it against him.

We're old hands at this task by now, so much so that tonight we just walked into the shop and started storing the clothes away without even waiting for the good folk at Traid to tell us what to do. They were very pleased to see us and since they moved into their new premises, the shop floor is a lot more streamlined which meant that we were done with the job within half an hour.

We said our goodbyes and had plenty of time to snap a few stylish selfies outside the store. We then held some very tense negotiations about how we were getting to our next task. In the end, a socially paced 2kish run was agreed upon and with that, we ran towards the Harringay Ladder for a bit of distance. Running the ladder is actually great fun and it just so happens to be the next run in the Headtorch Run Series - come!

Anyway, before anyone could complain about a 2k run getting closer 3k, we had arrived at the Westbury Banks Nature Reserve.

We started the task by putting batteries in the head torches Gramps had acquired for the group earlier that day. As a testament to how much he spent on them, only about half of them actually worked but that was enough light to have us prepared for Goodgym After Dark.

The Friends group had started work over the weekend to create a dead hedge on the road side of the Reserve and our task for the night was to build upon this hedge and extend it. Our five Goodgymmers, now joined by Alex, Louise, and Sarah, got on with the task with gusto. Twigs, sticks, old christmas trees - they were all collected from the compost area and reused on the hedge. Our Goodgymmers were making such good progress that a sub-group splintered off and dealt with some overgrown weeds that were cluttering the central steps of the Reserve.

Just before 8pm, it got so dark we could no longer tell our melons from our aubergines, so we decided it was time to pack and head off towards the local watering hole for some refreshments.

So, is there a point to all of this? Well, apparently you should be careful with sugar-free sweeties, it gets dark when you blink, and judging a man by the size of his emoji is plain nude, erm, rude, I mean. You really had to be there for some of that! :) And lucky for you, you can next week - join us for more fun and shenanigans!