The forest is silence

6 Goodgymers helped their local community in Barnet
Scarlett
Subham Basu
George Ttoouli
Kubilay Kara
Theodore Smith
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Barnet

Tuesday 18th March

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George Ttoouli
George Ttoouli

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Kubilay Kara
Kubilay Kara

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Theodore Smith
Theodore Smith

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With clear skies above and sturdy legs below, four Goodgymmers stormed into the darkening evening from the Phoenix Cinema. We ran a solid, mostly car-free 3km to the tinyforest, with Kubilay and Theodore. Subham kept the pace up while night scarfed up the tender eye of pitiful day. Starlight hardly pierced the twilight engulfing Lyttleton fields, so we turned on head torches.

On Falloden Way we met Gabonnet and Scarlett, who joined us in the meadow. Dark tracks from the diggers led to the newly turned earthy, where we'll be planting three new tinyforests later this month. Then, in the far corner of the forgotten fields we found the existing tinyforest.

We assembled our three birdfeeders, two with fat balls and one with seeds, entered the forest and hung the feeders on branches. Though stones have been known to move and trees to speak, we heard nary a nightingale nor late blackbird singing for supper, but we'll see what they have taken when we come back next week.

We talked about the impact of the tinyforest, the various citizen science data we could record (in daylight) and the new tinymeadow that should start blooming soon. Then, wishing a fair journey home to Scarlett, Subham and Gabrielle, three of us mustered our mettle for the 3km trek back to the Phoenix.


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Paul Salman

Wed 19th Mar at 2:50pm

Beautifully written report, I was almost there .. great work hope you enjoyed the novelty!

Scarlett
Scarlett (She/her)

Wed 19th Mar at 9:49pm

Thanks, George, for leading the session.

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