Bristol

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A Dior Bag? You’ll never de-leaf it!

7 GoodGymers made their way 2.1km to help the St Mary Redcliffe Nursery School in Bristol.

  • Caroline
  • Bristol runner
  • Melanie Young
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Jason Thorne
  • Bristol runner
  • Roddy Black
 
Tuesday, 15th of October 2024
 
Led by Melanie Young
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There was a break in the weather for the GoodGymmers who met up in the darkening warmth of Queen Square, armed with gloves, headtorches and issued with litter pickers and bags.

Off we set, the running group led by Vaguely Northern Darren in one direction and the walkers in another, with a plan to arrive at Redcliffe Nursery School and Children's Centre at the same time - which worked surprisingly well!

Three jobs to manage:

  1. Clear the litter from the car park that's used by local residents and was already full of cars, so some interesting stretches (possibly yoga at a push!) and a top find of an actual (probably actual fake) Dior bag (OK, little paper gift bag)

  2. Into the outdoor play area to shift sand into the sand pit - we couldn't find the sand that wasn't already in the sand pit, so claim full credit for this although it was already shifted.

  3. Sweep and bag the leaves from everywhere they'd collected - this was the main event and, of course, involved climbing ONTO the equipment to check for and sweep leaves, especially by Frances whilst Roddy and Jason targeted the High Leaf Fall area of the side slide. Richard, Darren and Caroline struck paleontology gold with dinosaurs in the sand/leaf mixture.

Discussions of the evening led to punny versions of childhood songs from our resident Choir Leader Frances, especially "Dior Ears Hang Low" which is a pun we're saving for the next time we find Dior (-ish) items.

A great evening and we almost beat the rain!

Report written by Melanie Young


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Melanie Young
Led by Melanie Young

Area Activator for Bristol Loves being outdoors and being active, helping make the world a happier place to be one day at a time. Eats cake.

GoodGymers helping out
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    • VaguelyNorthernDarren
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Roddy Black
    • Caroline

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