This small but mighty team tonight met as usual at the Bridge House then took a lovely jog up the hill through Crystal Palace park, admiring the sunshine and the doggies, but less enamoured with the scratchy pollen in the wind. John from the Crystal Palace Museum was kind enough to bring us water, and we started our digging, scraping, weeding and sifting soil (through a shopping trolley, of course). We got loads done, and can see even more of the floor of the Water Tower now. John as usual told us we're nearly there, and added he's had a lot of interest in looking around from the Trust - which is hopeful for supporting the end of the project, finishing it off for it to be opened to the public. We packed 4 bags of soil for use in local community garden projects, cleared the weeds from the recent sunny weather, then headed off home, back down the hill. See you next time, John :)

GoodGym Bromley (soon to be GG Crystal Palace 👀) were on top form tonight for some fence brushing, helping out the magnificent Friends of Cator and Alexandra Parks before freshening up the kids' play area fences.

We met at the Bridge House as per. Cat's Q of the day; Cook or be cooked for, and what is your meal of choice? Be cooked for obvs?

It was just a short jog down the hill to the park where we nailed the timing as Millie swerved round the kerb to meet us.

Brushes at the ready we flicked off lichen, flaky paint, slugs. You name it, we brushed it.

We completed a serious chunk in our 45 mins or so and stopped off for a quick snap with some pigeons before heading back for stretches.

Nice to see everyone. Shout-out to Cat for leading. Next week, it's decided, it's going to be the first GoodGym Crystal Palace group run.

Great little sesh this morning:

🍁 Helen is the master of raking leaves from the canal (and not falling in). This means the canal doesn't get full of gunk and need an expensive de-silt.

🪥 Kelly and Rebecca cracked on with some diligent brushing of the railings to remove flaky paint before new paint can be added.

🍂 And I was getting all the dried leaves onto the compost heap.

Nice one all 👍👌