Yesterday afternoon saw us return to Boundary Brook Nature Park for more bramble digging and log moving. After our last session one of the Nature Park's neighbours queried if the badgers were venturing over towards the surrounding houses. But no, that's not signs of badgers digging, it's evidence that GoodGymers are encroaching closer and closer to residential areas these days. Boundary Brook Nature Park is excellent GoodGym habitat. (Easy to mistake us for badgers with our ever-increasing sprinkling of black and white 50 Good Deed Tshirts.)

We spent a couple of hours digging brambles out of the wildflower meadow and mound, chattering about podcasts, dates, inter-college cat feuds and everything inbetween. In a twist on the "leaf or litter" game we had "stone or potato" (PSA - it's always a stone). With blue sky above and a robin flitting around it was wholesome as it comes.

Thomas took the tree-care job, disappearing off into the woods with saw in hand. Despite the fact that for most of the session we could find no sign of him except for a couple of tools abandoned beside the path, the tree team were not whisked away by evil spirits or lost Hansel & - style. Under Pete's direction they moved branches and logs over to where the bird hide is being built and learnt how to safely fell a small tree.

Further information on Boundary Brook Nature Park can be found here.