After quite a rainy day, it turned out quite a warm evening, and the ground was made softer for our little digging session.

We jogged to the park, met two more Goodgymers and Millie there, and loaded up a barrow with spades and spring bulbs.

Working after dark can sometimes be hard on the wildlife (no worms were harmed, only disturbed and then placed back in the freshly dug holes) but it's a bonus that it being after squirrel bedtime means they're unlikely to immediately dig the bulbs back up for dinner.

With it being a mast year, too (super bumper acorn crop) likely due to the hot summer stressing many trees into panic mode - the squirrels are already delirious and overstocked for their winter.

We happily dug, chatted about slow worms, running events for next year, and dinner plans - and placed tulips and snowdrops in a couple of places in the park, in little clumps, where with this unpredictable weather they could come up in February.

Brenda, thanks for volunteering today at Crystal Palace junior parkrun. Your efforts are greatly appreciated by us and all the parkrunners

Two Goodgym’s met on a drizzly Saturday morning to help set up for the Maple Road Christmas Market!

Many many many water weights later, we had secured the gazebos which were absolutely necessary with the poor weather. I went along later in the day, and the gazebos were absolutely necessary and being used!

Today, I volunteered at MIND South East region mental elf festive 5km fundraiser helping with setting up for the raffle and tombola. It was a lovely event.

Brenda, thanks for volunteering today at Crystal Palace junior parkrun. Your efforts are greatly appreciated by us and all the parkrunners

How many GoodGymers does it take to put in a few hundred bulbs? Only 4 apparently.

After a short jog we arrived in a dark Cator Park where Millie and Linda had hundreds of bulbs ready to go underground.

Linda showed us the best technique and we got to work, losing holes in the darkness and having a nice chat.

Doing it at night means the squirrels can't see where to dig them up - perfect.

After emptying a couple of huge sacks of daffs and tulips and some other ones too, we called it a night.

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