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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 03/02/2026

A little egret has made its home in Friary Park's new wetland area.

George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 02/02/2026

Planting more trees with @theorchardproject.bsky.social and @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social yesterday in Stoneyfields Park, Edgware. It was Imbolc, Celtic spring, Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish New Year for Trees, and St Brigid's Day, the patron saint of poetry - so a poem by the wonderful Janet Sutherland

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 26/01/2026

I made it to 4 wassails this month in North London: Friary Park, Castlehaven, Hollickwood Park and Broomfield Park. Great community bonding, bonkers, joyous celebrations, and a giant pigeon called Big Pidge! Loved seeing the New Esperance Morris dancers

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 03/12/2025

Welp, I did it! Got my 100th good deed before the end of the year: www.goodgym.org/v3/reports/g... Thanks to #Goodgym for keeping me fit and making my life so much more rewarding! Anyone looking for a good reason to start exercising regularly in excellent company, this is it: www.goodgym.org 😍🏅

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 30/07/2025

Lovely new Lebanese falafel joint opened a month ago on North Finchley high street, in the alley to Lodge Lane car park. Arif is a great guy! Car park due to be flattened for 0% affordable luxury flats. Concerned about the impact of the developments? Join the conversation: @ournorthfinchley.org

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 17/07/2025

A fun session recently with #Goodgym Barnet at Northway Gardens. Great weather for a 5km round trip from the Phoenix, lopping self-seeding trees along the banks of the Mutton Brook

Six Goodgym runners in a line wearing Goodgym branded sports wear smiling at the camera. Two hold up garden loppers

Four Goodgymmers on the banks of the Mutton Brook, two holding loppers, two holding branches from elder tree saplings for them to cut back. On the left in a dashing sun hat, Brian Ingram, the indomitable volunteer manager for Northway Gardens, directs the Goodgymmers, his arm pointing at where to cut.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 14/07/2025

I mean, maybe it was an undercover ambulance.

A blue SUV parked in front of a No Parking sign. The road is painted with yellow cross hatching and reads "Emergency Vehicles Only" in white and "Taxis on event days only" in bold letters.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 03/07/2025

Nature is weird, but also exciting. Seen near Darlands Nature Reserve on the underside of an oak leaf hanging at head height over the path

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 03/07/2025

Yes, but what does the role actually *do*???

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 15/05/2025

In March, ~100 volunteers + several from #Goodgym planted 1800 trees in 3 new tinyforests by the Mutton Brook: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Yesterday, ~12 people planted 433 *more* trees that were held back for warmer weather: www.goodgym.org/v3/reports/a... Thanks @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social!

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 11/05/2025

Also spotted a nuthatch last week, working up a trunk on the green at the bottom of my road

Let's be honest, this is a pretty poor photo of a nuthatch on the side of a dead tree possibly oak. The bird is small but you can make out the distinct nuthatch shape and the orange-rust belly and dark back. But mostly you can see trunk, leaves and sky.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 11/05/2025

This year's brood includes Kerveros and Orfeis

A garden lawn, a blurry, moving fox pup by a water tub in the foreground, and between bushes at the back, what looks like a three-headed fox, the mother standing with two other pups.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 30/03/2025

EPIC litter clear with #goodgym and the Pymmes Brookers yesterday. Took eight of us to get this beast up the bank. Best workout I've had in a while!

A man in shades, waders, thick red gloves, baseball cap and sunglasses, stands on rocks in the shallows of Pymmes Brook, surrounded by wood debris. Opposite him, embedded in the green bank and vegetation behind it, is a moped style motorbike, rusting, but intact. Two other volunteers are wrestling with more trash (a shopping trolley, not in view) behind some branches hanging over the stream.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 27/03/2025

Epic day yesterday with #Goodgym Barnet. We helped plant a whopping 3 new #tinyforests. All in, volunteers, school children and local residents plugged 1800 trees into the ground! And we made the BBC! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... (21min35sec)

A wide shot of the meadow above Mutton Brook, with loads of volunteers in the distance with shovels, a mobile cafe and generator, a film crew and a handful of red Goodgym t-shirts. Behind them is a thin line of trees, still bare of leaves from winter, and a row of traffic on the North Circular at Henley's Corner, then some blocks of flats.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 19/03/2025

Spotted and reported a badly parked Lime bike on way to last night's #Goodgym session. Then a long 6km round trip to the Mutton Brook tinyforest to hang fat balls and seed feeders for the birds. Big session next week to plant 3 more tiny forests! Can you help? www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/...

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 15/03/2025

A lovely morning mission with #Goodgym at Finchley Memorial Hospital's community garden, weeding and spreading compost on the raised beds. Hoping this will become a regular session. We've a starter session on Sunday - please share! www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/...

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 12/03/2025

Last night's #Goodgym run, view from the entrance to Glebelands Nature Reserve of the current skyline. Barnet Council and Regal JP have submitted plans to build 1502 flats in 25 storey tower blocks here. Today is the last day for comments: publicaccess.barnet.gov.uk/online-appli...

A pink orange sunset with light clouds in the sky, and the dark outline of low buildings and trees. In the foreground, a large grassy playing field, and a path stretches off along the left on the edge of a dense tree line.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 11/03/2025

#Goodgym #Barnet will be frolicking in ancient woodland this Saturday: www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/... Great opportunity to come along and see what we do, if you've never done a session before!

Four sporty people in Goodgym branded t-shirts standing in Highgate woods, with tall trees behind them and lots of greenery. Fallen logs are lined up to mark the edge of paths. In the middle a fifth person - the forest ranger - stands with his thumbs up, smiling and wearing outdoorsy clothes. A dog sits on the left with his back to the camera. This is Gus. He is a labradoodle.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 07/03/2025

One of our brilliant #Barnet #Goodgym runners, Penny Salman has been recognised by Barnet Council for inspiring people to upcycle clothing instead of binning it at www.instagram.com/threadsforap... www.goodgym.org/v3/reports/g...

A photograph of Penny Salman wearing clothing she has designed herself: black striped shirt with vertical grey stripes, black and white checkered trousers, a red cravat-type neckerchief, tied in a bow. She has ginfer hair and earring hoops and is standing in front of a cycle hoops and a red brick building.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 26/02/2025

Last night's #Goodgym Barnet run from the Phoenix to Shepherds Hill. Amazing views of Highgate and a clear sky for the planets. I did the full loop from home so hit 12km. Also, what is this amazing horse statue outside the Engine Rooms? Even the Londonist doesn't know: londonist.com/london/great...

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 16/02/2025

Last week's night #Goodgym session was a mulch special for a forest garden at a school in East Finchley. Really enjoying not sitting at home vegetating of an evening!

A varied group of people in sporty or outdoors clothes at night (a few in Goodgym t-shirts) holding shovels and standing in front of a pile of woodchip, at night.

Three people digging at a pile of mulch at night with shovels. Two are in motion and very blurry because they're trying to fill a wheelie bin.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 24/01/2025

Answer: the failure of political leaders to keep greenhouse gas emissions within safe limits.

A picture from Sky News of a lighthouse being struck by a wave bigger than it, surrounded by oceans and mist, with "Where has Storm Eowyn come from?" as the caption.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 22/01/2025

What kind of day are you having? Oh, you know, it's a nine-pigeon kind of day.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 16/01/2025

This weird little robin I met when #goodgym were out helping Cherry Tree Wood with their annual bramble bash looks pasted into reality, like from a David Lynch film. RIP David Lynch, it is singing. "RIP David Lynch."

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 14/01/2025

Like a care package for the soul, this from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social arrived last week. Thank you Brian, for the beautiful book and pamphlet and the handwritten note. Excited to read what @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social has been up to - one of my favourite walking, climbing n meditating poets

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 20/12/2024

I just found the Wikipedia page listing politicians who have changed affiliation. The last column listing reasons for the changes is relatively dry until you get to the House of Lords... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 15/12/2024

Really sad to see another business on North Finchley high street targeted by criminals. I really like CeX because they help keep electronics in use instead of in the bin. A shame the police and council aren't doing anything about the criminals regularly targeting local businesses #barnetgreenparty

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 07/12/2024

The word 'charitisation' popped into my head yesterday, thinking about how charities have taken up responsibility for welfare in so many areas. An internet search threw this letter up from 1997, just before that timely election: www.independent.co.uk/voices/lette...

A screenshot of the opening lines from the letter linked in the post, with the following text highlighted: "Whatever the result of the election the next government will look more to charities for the delivery of welfare."

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 04/12/2024

Last night I met the legend that is Roger Chapman, Chair of both Barnet Green Spaces Network and Friends of Cherry Tree Wood - the patch of ancient woodland Barnet #Goodgym visited last night, and where we cleared a half moon of grass in preparation for the new forest garden they're laying.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 03/12/2024

Sadly Hoyle joins a couple of Labour politicians with links to the gambling industry, like Michael Dugher, who chairs the Betting and Gambling Council, which lobbies for deregulation. Yet another self-regulating, damaging industry closely tied to UK politics thedarkarts.substack.com/p/dark-arts-...

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 02/12/2024

From Colin Simms' Goshawk Poems (Shearsman 2017) #poetry

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 27/11/2024

A 4km #Goodgym Barnet run last night with Paul and Gus (unofficial mascot) to Northway Community Gardens, where Brian had us clearing old pots of scrub and topsoil, then replenishing with peat-free compost for the spring bulbs.

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George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk · 26/11/2024

Now is a good a time as any to officially announce: My next collection of poetry, Parchment Scalpel Rock will be published in May 2026 by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social It'll be a kind of 'best of' drawing on a series I've been working on for nearly 20 years.

The underside of a snail climbing invisible glass against a blurry sky and landscape, it's feelers stretched up and wide like arms raised in joy. Imagine it's saying yay! really loudly.

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