Animals all round today as our two tasks took us to Goats (with kids!) and Dogs.

Great Dog Walk Together

The Great Dog Walk Together was organized in conjunction with the Jo Cox Foundation as part of the Great Get Together weekend. The community dog walk around the Downs hoped to give its participants the opportunity to meet new people from a diverse set of backgrounds while aiming to concentrate more on what they had in common rather than any differences that might divide them. It also gave its canine members a fun chance to be in the company of lots of their furry friends.

Particular thanks to Laura and Zdeni who arrived early to help set up and then joined the walk to act as marshals and on one occasion help to locate a lost four-legged tourist from Miami. Thanks also to Charlie for taking on another marshal slot and a special mention to Julie and Fergus who joined in as participants!

The rest of us took on the rather hilly route up to Clifton (respect to new GG runner Gina for making this her first run with uis!) and were tasked with collecting surveys so the organisers could check on whether the event had been successful and identify any improvements they might make in future. Thankfully everyone seemed to have enjoyed themselves and were very willing to answer all the questions. Meanwhile the dogs (including marshal favourite Ruby) were given some free dog treats to chew on.

Street Goat

Patrick took on the lead role for our other task today up at Street Goat. We were needed to dig a water channel and it seems that even with a long run there and back, the group managed to complete this task and still have some time left over to play with the kids.

Many thanks to Patrick for stepping up and agreeing to take this on - and thanks to team Lewis-Priest for back marking

Happy Name Day to Zdeni!

Apparently in the Czech Republic everyone has a sort of second birthday with a day of the year set aside for each name and it just so happened that yesterday was Zdeni's. Hope you had a happy name day Zdeni - and thank you very much for the delicious brownies!!