Little by little we pick all the litter you ever threw down...well tonight we did not get a monster haul of litter, but that is a good thing right?

A lovely bright breezy evening of chatter on a summer Goodgym day...great! Our route took us down North Hill, through the Dutch Quarter, into Castle Park and to the skate park and we focussed on the tiny shredded bits of litter mostly as well as cigarette butts. There was lots of fun news about new jobs, fascinating hobbies (like sign language choirs) and travel adventures which made the evening fly by.

We rounded it off with a little circuit in lower castle park, squatting, lunging and press-upping in short bursts.

As always...well done and see you at Junior Parkrun.

With the glimmer of warmer weather coming to the UK, 8 Goodgymers met up to clear the spring flowers from 10 large tubs ready for the summer blooms on Colchester’s iconic High Street. In fairness the warm weather hadn’t quite arrived so we all set to work on vigorous clearing to keep ourselves warm. Pam delivered recycling bags and garden tools to all of us and Frazer wielded a fork to loosen the existing roots. With 10 tubs to fork, clear, weed and litter pick we had our work cutout for us to complete the task in time. Pam, resplendent in a shiny new car, realised that she’d have to do multiple journeys to the compost pile so we could have a steady supply of empty sacks. As usual there was friendly banter with town goers intrigued to know what we were up to. Our answer was “take a look tomorrow, the tubs will be full of wonderful summer colour”, Colchester in Bloom once again. With all the clearing up done, except for the cheeky rook flinging the fresh soil back out of the tubs in search of juicy worms, we said our farewells and made our way home.