Sheila, Mick and Jen met the Friends of Haymill and BBOWT volunteers for their regular working party.

The plan for today was to clear the reed bed, and to redig and divert the channels we dug previously to direct the water to a specific corner of the reedbed to encourage regrowth.

When we reached the reedbed we were met with a blanket of nettles so the first job was to scythe and slash them down so they could be uprooted. Whilst most of the team did this Sheila and I went off to do a quick litter pick as there werent enough slashers/scythes available. My section of litterpicking was predominantly retrieving discarded tin cans and drinks bottles although I did retrieve part of a car too.

When we returned to the reedbeds enough of the nettles had been slashed that the channel digging had started. Mick made such good progress we named his area Mick's Trench in his honour.

The difference in how the area looked by the end of the session was remarkable.

3 volunteers cane to help at our weekly event.

Sara & Nisha were Marshalls. Sut was RD today,

21 finishers was a small number today but our Event Director was making up the miles, Manjit will be rubbing New York Marathon.

Have a lovely Sunday

This morning 3 Goodgym members helped Salthill juniors with their parkrun event.

Six volunteers met at Upton Court park to do a litter pick, while some of us continued to walk to Eton and back, a 5k round trip. Good to catch up with volunteers new and old.

A very warm welcome to Bejay on his first ever Goodgym task. We hope you enjoyed the session.

Our task as usual was to help May sort through the donated clothes into season trends and colours.

In the short space of 1 hour we managed to get through 20 plus bags!

Wonderful morning for us volunteers to get out, whether was crisp but not too cold. Thank you to our regular volunteers making this event possible.

Sara & Nisha were Marshals 9/10 Pam was Time Keeping Sut was RD'ing.

Have a lovely weekend