Tuesday 24th March
Report written by Yianny (he / him)
๐ฟ๐ Our mission, should we choose to accept it (we did, obviously โ weโre GoodGym): help the wonderful Annick at the Brixton Waterworks allotments tackle a carpet situation.
*Shoutout to Adam for weaving his magic and nailing this week's pun title!
Yes. Carpet. In the soil. Apparently the weed barrier of choice for a certain era of allotment gardening was โjust bury some carpet and hope for the best.โ ๐ Well, that carpetโs time was UP.
The team got stuck in โ pulling, heaving, rolling, folding, and wheelbarrowing that ancient carpet to its temporary resting place like the absolute legends we are. โค๏ธ It was gritty, it was grimy, it was extremely satisfying. The carpets may be old and worn, but our team? Totally on the right thread. ๐งต๐
We split into two crack squads: the running crew โ AA, Katie (an ICONIC comeback after injury, we literally cannot ๐), and Michael (โjust a casual 16km at the weekend, no biggieโ ๐ค๐ฅ) โ and the walkers/cyclists Tilly, Ben, Nehal, Marie-Noelle and Adam, who were honestly bringing the vibes on wheels and heels. ๐ดโโ๏ธ๐ถโโ๏ธ
Annick was thrilled, the allotment is one step closer to full bloom, and we went home absolutely filthy and absolutely proud. ๐ฑ๐คฉ
See you next week at The Landor โ first round of brags about your weekend mileage is on you, Michael. ๐ ๐ป
Run, do good, repeat. ๐โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
The Friends of Windmill Gardens (FoWG) were formed in 2003 with three aims: * to get the Grade II listed Brixton Windmill restored and opened for public visits โ in 2002 it had been put on English Heritage's buildings at risk register; * to make Windmill Gardens park a more welcoming space for local people; * to have a new education centre at the windmill. Windmill Gardens gained a Green Flag Community Award in 2015 and we have just been judged again so our fingers are crossed that we will retain the award for the next two years.
See moreTue 24th Mar at 10:11pm
I will be running 21km this Sunday ๐๐โโ๏ธ
Wed 25th Mar at 7:25am
Wahoo thanks for the shout it! Itโs good to be back!!
Lambeth
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