Hot weather continues today but it was lovely to have a cooler evening!

Today we got straight to the task where Polly the rev met us and explained her plans for revitalising an area that currently has a number of anti-social issues that are not helped by neglected and overgrown areas! Tonight's task was to clear the hedge area by pulling out previously cut branches and putting them all into one corner for the skip to take away in a few weeks.

This was a thorny business and Rebecca definitely got the worst of it from very sharp dry brambles - ouch!!!! It was a good thing to then move on to litter picking!

Raymond and his best buddy Rake did a great job pulling out the dried out piles from undergrowth so we could move them!

Once we finished, R&R walked back to Walthamstow, which actually is rather far!!! And I cycled home - a longer ride but super enjoyable in the cooling weather!

Next week we are going to the Baby Bank directly as there's an event at the Greenleaf and we are not able to assemble there!

Muggy evening but marvelous company!

Arriving We were meeting at the Greenleaf church and I was wondering where everyone was at 6.40pm... but it turns out ladies were waiting at the front of the church, whilst I was inside at the back:) We had a lovely suprise and welcomed Sinead for her first ever goodgym session! Sadly Sinead hasn't signed up and I haven't taken her details so Sinead - if you're reading this, please leave a comment below to identify yourself:).

Girls Justs Wanna Have RUN This week we are once again back with another 80s song reference. Let's just face it - it was the best era for cool tunes;)! We started tonight's session with a warm up and then nice and gently jogged to the Lloyds Park, around it and made our way onto the Forest Rd. Those who've been to the session before started throwing in sounds of terror because they knew what was coming... Yes, The Hurst Hill of Hell was upon us but like a group of amazons we sprinted up like it was nothing, OK we jogged up composed, OK we moaned and groaned and swore to make it to the top...!!!! Great heart rate buster this! But once at the top we pushed on to the end of the road and arrived nicely warmed up (an understatement) for a session at the St. Mary's churchyard.

Spreading the seed Tim the gardener had a lovely surprise of a task for us - we had a task of collecting wildflower seeds from the grounds of the church but also across the road where a nice wildflower meadow had plenty of seeds to collect. Tim kindly explained to us how different seed pods and seeds look, showed us a variety of wildflowers such as cornflower, california and other poppies, nigella and many more. It was a gentle and relaxing task and gave us a chance to get to know each other, especially Sinead! After a quick 40 or so minutes we gently jogged to Greenleaf, remembering to take a group selfie photo and stretched down on arrival.

A lovely session !

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A lovely cool evening for a long walk around the block to help deliver William Morris Big Local newsletter!

Three of us met at the Greenleaf Church and went to collect the newsletters. We managed to cover a good section of the area and almost delivered the whole heavy box of newsletters. As it was three of us we couldn't pair up so we had to improvise by mixing and matching the sides we were on so that we all could talk to each other and make progress equally. We actually got into a really nice rhythm and found ourselves being 'in the zone' and it really felt like a workout by the end of it walking so much. We managed to have some chats and got a few hellos from passers by as well!

Overall a great task and it was great to have a small but perfectly synchronised team tonight! We finished back at Greenleaf and then ran (Ros and Rebecca) and cycled (me) back home! A nice active evening out!

As we were so focused there were no photos!

A hectic start on the hot day!

Julia's inability to use public transport after 2 years of bike commuting resulted in a multiple change of start time/location BUT we finally all met at Walthamstow central with weather starting to cool down!

Our task for the night was to deliver leaflets for FoodCycle initiative that will host free meals on Thursday at the St. Mary's Church Welcome Centre. We divided to conquer with Rebecca and Julia taking the left side and road of the church road whilst Raymond and Charlotte took the right! This gentle exercise was welcome on this sticky evening and we were done in about 50ish minutes and decided to celebrate by grabbing a refreshing drink (and later pizza) at the Nag's head where we had a great time chatting - a great mid-week session!