It was lovely to be back in the Wishing Well garden after some time away. The winter does challenge us when it comes to getting out in the garden, so the lighter nights are a godsend.

Maurice and Nicola Set to work with the lawnmowers to get the garden looking lovely for the community VE day celebrations.

The grass was a little meadow like, but with two mowers on the go, we soon had it looking lovely again. It was wonderful to spend an evening in the fresh air, and enjoying lovely company.

We hope the VE Day celebrations were a success, and we look forward to being back at Wishing Well again soon!

Amazing job as always!

Lots of love Nicola xxx

Lots of roles carried out by the GoodGym team at parkrun this week! 389 prople took part, with over 50 walking as part of parkrun's "Let's Walk" campaign.

Nicola was the ever warm and welcoming Volunteer Coordinator; Karen was run director and did course check, set up and close down, results processor and communications; Nigel did course set up and close down as well was timekeeping; and Emily and Kat did the really satisfying job of sorting the tokens ready for next week - although sorting them into reverse order blew Kat's mind!

Great job everyone!

It was a lovely evening spent with the loveliest people on a task that was really rewarding.

Before we started the task, Karen, Rachel, Nigel, Maurice & Nicola set off for a walk which took us through some lovely woodland where we met some very friendly dogs, saw the odd squirrel and chatted all things Easter (mainly chocolate eggs!) . We walked 2.5 miles in total and that was before we set to work with our very physical task!

Tonight, the aim was to clear 2 overgrown footpaths near to the bus stop in Haslington It has been left to get overgrown for some years - to the point of not even realising there was even a pavement there!

We all set about the task with shovels, hoes, cutters and brushes and soon had the path cleared. It was definitely one of our more physical tasks but also one of our more rewarding ones too. The transformation was quite remarkable!

Well done everyone. A super successful task! You're all amazing Hope the backs aren't aching too much today!

Lots of love Nicola xxx

We were joined by a very special guest as part of the GoodGym / parkrun team this week - Stanley the very cute daschund! Stanley had just returned from his holiday in Norfolk where he'd been enjoying walks on the beach, seeing the seals, long walks, coffees and ice cream - but it was just as lovely for him to be in our favourite park!

Stanley joined Nicola (run director, event set up, course check, and results processor), Karen (timekeeper, volunteer coordinator and communications person), Mark (parkwalker), and Nigel (tailwalker and event close down) . 359 people walked and ran at parkrun this week, made possible by the amazing team of volunteers.

3 GoodGymmers turned out on a sunny but still slightly chilly morning to support Crewe parkrun. This week was a relaunch of "parkwalk" to highlight to people that parkrun is for all paces, and encouraging walking as a way being healthy. It also involved a fight with parkwalk bunting - that wont see the light of day again!

Karen, Nicola and Nigel carried out a wide range of roles today including course check, course set up, volunteer coordinator, run director, tailwalker, course close down, results processor and communications. A brilliant and much valued effort, all before 10am on a Saturday morning!