Two volunteers joined The Langley Park Ranger team to take part in a spot of conservation. Today we were pulling up the weed ragwort to protect the horses that use the park and then we moved on to pull up the bracken which was threatening native species of oak sapling. Another interesting morning with the friendly, knowledgeable rangers helping to conserve the park for the future.

... helped by one of the watering cans being leaky!! The team coined a phrase ''don't be a drip, get a grip!'' and managed to ferry watering cans in a wheelbarrow so many times that all 5 of the water butts on the allotment were completely full, and still manage to water a lot of the flowers and vegetables as well! The team work and banter was excellent - so there was even time to smell the buddleia - which we decided was our favourite as well the butterlies' favourite! In parallel we managed to completely clear brambles, nettles and grasses to enable access for a lady who has just had hip surgery to get to her raspberry canes and rosemary bush.

On Saturday I had a long run to get in but I still wanted to get my weekly parkrun fix! So I arrived at Upton Court park at around 06:45 to fit in 13 km before doing parkrun.

As I drove in I noticed that the car park was FULL of litter! And this did not look like a fox having a party! It was household rubbish of watermelon, egg cases, food waste and containers.

I knew if I started picking the rubbish up first I wouldn’t get my run in so I decided to run first then give the car park a go!

13km done and dusted so I got out my litter picker and filled a large black bag full of rubbish before doing 1 more km to the start of parkrun!

28 runners today and a full house of volunteers.

sara and adam on timekeeping manjit was marshall 1 and abdullaziz marshall 11 Sut was Co Rd

congrtulation to Abdulaziz for reaching 50 Good Deeds. Abdulaziz

Lovely day sorting out colours with May and the team. We sorted around 12 black bags and ended up with over 16 bags of colours.

Helen had the lucky dip today.

Thank you for your help!

Great turnout this morning we had plenty volunteers aswell. 49 runners with a plenty PB's

Harsha waa on Run Diector duties Abdul marshall 11 Pam on Bar Code Scanning Manjit in Time Keeping and Sara / Sut as Tail Walker.

We run the even every Sunday so please do sign up if you have a Sunday Free.