A Weeding Frenzy

18 Goodgymers helped their local community in Ipswich
Sally Solomon
Nicola Stevenson
Robin Harper
Steve Ager
Lesley Rawlinson
Cleola Van Eijl
Hayley Steward
Susan Conquer
Heidi Taylor
Kerry Buckley
Sally Jacobs
Tom Selby
Lizzie Hicks
Keith Borrett
Adeline
Ashok Patnaik
Imogen Taylor
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Ipswich

Monday 11th June 2018

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What a beautiful evening for a run - and tonight's 5 mile run took us through 2 of Ipswich's parks looking glorious in the sunshine.

Before we left we welcomed Imogen on her first Group Run and it was congratulations all round on performances over a busy weekend including the Friday Five Series and parkrun PBs.

The last leg of our outward 3.5 mile run took us across Chantry Park (home to Ipswich parkrun) to the amazing Activ Lives Walled Garden nestled in the bottom corner of the park. Danny met us and explained the chores for the evening - watering, weeding and some hard core digging!

The Walled Garden grows thousands of plants for Ipswich Borough Council but also hosts visitors from the nearby Sue Ryder care home. the digging part of tonight's task was to prepare an area to make wheel chair access easier. However the area to be cleared was very hard, compacted stones and earth, making it very difficult to break into. Ashok, Heidi, Keith and Kerry battered away for the duration of our visit. Progress was slow and unfortunately we weren't able to complete the job - however Danny was grateful for the impact made.

The more gentle side of the task was watering and weeding around the huge array of plants within the garden - much more visible progress was made here - with barrow loads of weeds being transported to compost.

Our return run route took us through Gippeswyk Park and back along the river path onto the Waterfront with the sun still shining - What a beautiful evening for a run!


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