Right on the Thames was a lonely goatherd
21 GoodGymers made their way 1.9km to help the Surrey Docks Farm in Southwark.
- Saturday, 19th of January 2019
- Led by Lucy J
Southwark News
We are as of today at the top of our league for the January challenge with 104 good deeds done so far this month and 832 collective kms run and it is constantly climbing. Blimey! That deserves a big pat on the back
Next week we're going to Southwark Tigers on Burgess Park to fill a skip. It's a 6km run overall sign up here.
We just turned 3 years old! In that time we have done some form of good 3580 times, including 1038 coach runs and 249 missions. That's a huge impact on the local community you should be proud to be a part of.
That's enough of the business
Saturday was a MASSIVE day (hence all the photos)! It started at 9am sharp with GoodGym tshirts dotted all over the place at Southwark parkrun. Dom marshalled and caught some snaps of some very happy runners. Nice one Dom!
We then gathered at the rather cosy Southwark Park cafe for a hot drink and in some cases a sausage sandwich. Gradually people began to arrive for the starter session and at 10.20am we started the briefing.
At GoodGym we get fit and do good in three special ways
Those ways are: Group runs, every Wednesday we meet at Old Spike Roastery on Peckham Rye at 18.45 to run to a local community project to do good. Missions: one off tasks done in an isolated person's home that improves their wellbeing eg. changing a lightbulb. Coach runs: pairing you up with an isolated older person in the community for weekly social visits.
After a warm up and intro we set off for the 1.6km to Surrey Docks Farm. On arrival we sought out Rachel who provided us with brushes and shovels and showed us into the goat enclosure. Our mission? Collect up all the poo! The scooped poop then went over to the steaming (literally, steaming) muck heap.
Scooper pooper GoodGym's gonna find ya
Having cleared the area and dumped it on the muck heap we had an opportunity to feed the goats. Some were more patient than others...!
Surrey Docks Farm is a working community farm in Rotherhithe, SE16 that aims to educate local people about where their food comes from and promotes getting active outdoors. From Old Spike Roastery it's quite a long run so we don't get to go too often which Saturday the perfect time!
'You've goat to be kidding!'
Could be heard when a goat chomped Lucy's feedbag in half right out of her hand. We also coo-ed over the gorgeous Oxford Sandy and Black pigs, the sheep and Hermione the donkey.
Time to stop mucking about, we needed a goat-o-shoot
Finished up with feeding, we went back into the enclosure for a team photo. The highlight of this being the moment that Emily leant down to stroke a curious goat and it began to wee - very narrowly missing her!
And now, a song:
Right on the Thames was a lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
'Help with this task!' could her loud cry be heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Folks from GoodGym came to help the goatheard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Scrapin' and sweepin' all that lovely goat turd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Report written by Lucy J
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Led by Lucy J
Ex-trainer for Southwark, defector to Sheffield. Marathon runner, ultra-experimenter, triathlete. www.runmindful.co.uk
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