It was great to see another good turnout from Waltham Forest's finest tonight and before I get into the run report, I want to say an extra special hello to our pair of first time GoodGymers, Leoni and Sophie. Great to see you both.

I was very excited about tonight's task, I always like the idea of doing something that has a degree of permanence about it and tonight was one of those tasks. Up at our familiar stomping ground of Walthamstow Village, near St Mary's we commenced work building some large planters to improve the public space in this historic conservations area.

In short, this task involved shifting some large planks of wood about, measuring and marking-up, sawing, drilling, screwing, fixing etc. Basically, this was a good old-fashioned DIY job. Local resident and Parkrun Legend, Penny, met us at the task. Thankfully, Penny had our task all planned out, and we got cracking straight away. We were joined by a collection of other helpful residents as things got going.

With a good turnout and a limited amount of tools, we split the group so that some were on the task while a bunch of us went to do some drills. We then swapped over halfway through, thus maintaining raised heart rates and body warmth as the temperature plummeted.

Everyone involved did great tonight, it was a technical task and we got one full planter made and another well on the road to completion. These bad boys are going to be in situ for many years to come so you never know maybe one day you will bring your grandchildren here and tell them that you built them 👷‍🏗️

We are back here in two weeks to finish off so don't miss out and sign-up today

Also, next week we are back to finish off our bulb planting and a spot of gardening at George Mason Lodge, you can sign-up here

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