Running with Manor Paddock’s horses

10 Goodgymers helped their local community in Brighton
Rosie Kelly
Josh Madden
Rosemary Reynolds
Amaryllis
Jemima Hildick-Smith
Olivia Powell
Jane Dallaway
Pippa A
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Juliet O'Brien
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Brighton

Tuesday 4th June

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Apart from a few sunny days recently, at GoodGym Brighton it feels like it has not stopped raining for sessions and sessions. But did you know that going for a walk on a rainy day can be Good for you? Rosemary found the BBC article on How rain can make you happier and healthier and so, even this week, 9 happy GoodGym-ers went out running to help Manor Paddock social housing, where the resident Luc was waiting for us with a number of well organised tasks.

Manor Paddock House is an unusual-for-Brighton red brick and red tile dwelling nestling in a dell of the once Manor farming land, close by today to the Royal Sussex County Hospital and at the bottom of Sheepcote Valley. The House was built in 1932 but was converted to eight seniors' social housing flats in 1979. The communal garden area is flanked on two sides by stone wall, once stable walls: leftover from the previous era of Manor Paddock being a grazing field for military and racing horses (now a space for dog walkers and astro-turfed, floodlit sports pitches).

The House residents - especially the gardeners amongst them - are really grateful to Good Gym for helping, twice a year, to keep the weeds in check in this sycamore and birch-shaded, partly-wild garden; for planting bulbs and plants; for mulching fruit bushes, plus a pear and an apple tree, in Spring, and then pruning buddleia in Autumn.

We are all so lucky to enjoy this historic green space, and run to the Paddock where the horses once did!

Welcome Josh and Rosie. Hope you enjoyed this session, and were not so discouraged by the rain :-)


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