Today’s run was a very special one - Nick’s 50th Good Deed! He’s been smashing the community missions and group runs, leading sessions and will thoroughly deserve his slick new black t-shirt when it pops through his door!

Nick said his favourite tasks so far have been Christmas decorating 🎄 So it’s kind of fitting that today we were looking after some trees!

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The recent hot weather has been a nightmare for the local plant-life and The Friends of Cator and Alexandra parks have been working flat-out to get all the saplings and shrubs watered, so it was great to be able to help out.

We met Lou from the Friends group, who together with Ian pulled out water (and even a couple of fish!) from the (depleted…) stream and distributed it into buckets and watering cans for the rest of us to spread around the park. We had several areas to target:

🌱 The new saplings (which we helped to plant!)

🥀 The rose bed

🌳 The orchard

🪴 The shrubs in beds

🌾 The willow arch

We blitzed the whole lot in 30 minutes which was a solid arm workout!

On the way home we did a couple of wallsits under a train archway and had a little celebratory beverage for Nick’s 50th 🎉🍻

Nice work gang!

Bucket’s o’ fun! 💦