Welcome to their first task Huw, and back to their second task Alex. Also a SHOUT OUT for bringing them along.

Croeso

Tonight we help out on the Great British Spring Clean 2024. Back for its ninth year, the Great British Spring Clean is the nation’s biggest mass-action environmental campaign.

Pledging to take part couldn’t be easier, simply pledge as an individual, a group or a school and let them know how many bags you pledge to pick up. 

Last year, the army of amazing #LitterHeroes pledged to pick more than 400,000 bags of litter.

Can they count on you to help clean up the places and spaces we love this spring, as Keep Britain Tidy celebrates its landmark 70th year of protecting the environment?

We had already taken part in a virtual litter pick on Sunday, where everyone that signs up joins in and does a quick litter pick of their local area.

Tonight we were in our usual group, a nice planned run each way of 2.5km and the break in the middle to litter pick one of our parks. A little wetter than usual but good light raining for running, we managed a good couple of full sized bin bags.

We love taking part in this each year.

Join us again for our next task, always Tuesdays. Go on.... Give us a try

At long last a dry looking Tuesday, Daylight during the run out - Spring is most definitely on the way.

Croeso

To our two new runners from tonights, Charlotte and Alex. It was great to have you along for the run and the task, hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Two different routes tonight to mix it up as we made our way out with T's emblazoned with the goodgym for all to see, a good temperature = crew on brand! Cwtch together is a great regular run for us now, and we always enjoy helping out there - it's been so wonderful to see it develop over the years. You can see what they are about here

Tonight was all about the prep for Spring, as the nicer weather looms ever nearer, the children and young people will want to run around the outside areas even more. So, to action........

• Remove the weeds at the bottom of all the fencing
• Reattach a board to the bottom of the front gate
• Clear up the leaves from the side of the building
• Lay two bags of white pebbles at the bottom of the fence (look for the gaps)
• Mow some of the lawn......

Mow the lawn at night?

Yes, you did read correctly. Thankfully we have the ever trusted Bat Lights....No to be confused with the Bat Signal.

With no time to spare, everyone got busy, let's see how much we can get done. Michael even joined in tonight tackling the mowing duties as much as possible. 30 minutes went by before we knew it, and we had managed most of the list, with some of the lawn still to do. We had saved time with the grass by mowing without a grass catcher on the back - and letting the clippings remain on the garden for those wonderful worms that we learnt about in a previous report.

https://www.goodgym.org/reports/u-leaf-t-me-up

Learning Time

• Grass clippings contain 4% nitrogen, 2% potassium, and 1% phosphorus along with small amounts of other plant nutrients.
• When decomposed, grass clippings also serve as a food source for microbial life in the soil - including our friendly worms.

Thanks All, see you again, same time next week.