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George Ttoouli
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Poet, gardener, environmental activist, teacher, editor, recovering academic. www.georgettoouli.co.uk

Barnet #GreenParty; Media Policy; London Green Party 2024 manifesto writer.

#Goodgym Barnet
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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
July 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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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.
July 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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.
July 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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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
July 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Yes, but what does the role actually *do*???
July 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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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!
May 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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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.
May 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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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.
May 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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BOOM! #fiftydeedsofGoodGym #GoodGym
May 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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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.
March 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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.
March 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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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/...
March 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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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/...
March 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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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.
March 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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#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.
March 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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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.
March 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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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...
February 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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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.
February 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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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.
January 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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What kind of day are you having?
Oh, you know, it's a nine-pigeon kind of day.
January 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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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."
January 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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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
January 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Reading CA Conrad on the bus, courtesy of @selfcoding.bsky.social #poetry
A photograph of a page of poetry from CA Conrad's Book of Frank, starting 'in the diner a / woman Frank / doesn't want / to know asks / his name'
December 20, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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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...
December 20, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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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
December 15, 2024 at 1:06 PM