the Frond

Appears in 12 episodes, first in episode 442.

Every appearance

• Episode 456 - The hype team

  Largest gatherings of adventurers. International: Stanborough (UK) on 1 August including Danny Norman, Lorraine and Colin Hare, Maria Wicks and Branca Moss; Bedok Reservoir (Singapore) on 8 August with a frond of 18. Australian: fronds of nine at two events each week, with Albert Melbourne picked for 1 August and Parama parkrun for 8 August. Also a special Singapore National Day (9 August) tally of 40 adventurers across East Coast Park and West Coast Park.

• Episode 455 - Tantrums, Tears and Tribulations

  Largest fronds for the fortnight. International: a frond of seven at Green Park, UK (18 July) and a frond of four at Kingsway Park, Urmston (25 July, including Callum Burrell and Ruth Perkins). Australian: a frond of 11 at McIvor Creek Trail, Heathcote (18 July) and a frond of 10 at Nathan Road Sports Ground (25 July, with Lyndell volunteering) — that event's last before closing. Also three pilgrimages on 25 July.

• Episode 454 - Old and New

  Frond round-up inside the club report: international fronds of six at Peter Pan parkrun (4 July) and eleven at The Lost Gardens of Heligan (11 July, where Andy Airy ran his 500th parkrun); the pilgrimage slot (Nadine Rutter at Bushy Park on 11 July); and the largest Aussie fronds — eleven at the Werribee Park Mansion relaunch and eight at Albury Wodonga.

• Episode 453 - Half Way There

  Largest gatherings of adventurers, read by Simon from [00:57:49]. International: a frond of 11 at Erddig parkrun (UK) two weeks ago, and a frond of five at Victoria Park Newbury last weekend. Australian: a frond of 10 at The Ponds two weeks ago, and a frond of eight at Reddell Reserve last weekend, with all names read out.

• episode 452 - The Away Game

  Largest fronds within the Consolidated Club Report. International: a frond of nine at Queensway (UK) on 6 June — Debbie and Andy Airy, James Newt, Wanda Day, Ellie Soper, Christopher Miles, Colin Hare, Cass Castleton and Matthew Hay; on 13 June a frond of five at a Welsh event TOC concedes he butchered. Pilgrimages: nobody at Bushy on 6 June, Leanne Blaney and Terry Logan on 13 June. Australian: a frond of nine at Shellharbour on 6 June (including Oliver Spake) and eleven at Darwin on 13 June, where office lady Sam Schroder became the 29th Australian to complete the Ollie Volley Club.

• Episode 451 - Let those pies fly high

  Largest fronds worldwide and in Australia. 23 May: five at Wantij Park in the Netherlands (Christopher Miles, Debbie and Andy Airy, Ellie Soper, Colin Hare). 30 May: a frond of nine at Morden UK for Darren's 1,000th (Stuart Henderson, Dave Thornton, Debbie Airy, Alexander Kington, Denise Evans, Louise and John Garrett, Danny Norman, Tina Drury) — with the joke that Darren himself isn't an adventurer yet. Australian fronds of seven at Penrith Lakes and Shellharbour (23 May) and at Rhodes (the Octogenarians meetup) and The Ponds (30 May). Bushy pilgrimages also read out: Dan O'Connell and Donna Markwick on 23 May, Wendy Smith on 30 May.

• Episode 450 - Celebrations and pronunciations

  Fronds reported within the club report block. Largest international frond 9 May: a frond of 14 at Yodogawa Kasen Koen Hirakata Chiku in Japan; 16 May: a frond of 8 at Yuka Family Road (YFR) in Japan. Pilgrimage (Bushy Park): nobody on 9 May, Adrian Luscombe, Ben Thompson and Janice Whittle on 16 May. Largest Australian frond 9 May: 14 at Yackandandah Rail Trail, Victoria — the annual World Tourists group meetup founded by Cass Castleton; 16 May: fronds of nine at both Greenheart Robina Parklands and Queanbeyan.

• Episode 449 - Is it your first time?

  Largest gatherings of parkrun Adventurers at a single event. International: a frond of 15 at Presint 18, Putrajaya, Malaysia, and a frond of 13 at Urayasu Sogo Koen, Japan. Australian: the largest Anzac Day frond at Shellharbour, and a frond of 10 at Inverloch the following weekend - prompting the joke that everyone turned up at Inverloch while TOC was away, and Lyndell's "maybe the stump's more popular than TOC".

• Episode 448 - Surrounded by clowns

  Largest gatherings of Adventurers Club members at a single event. Largest international fronds: a frond of 4 at Highcliffe Beach (UK) on 11 April, and a frond of 4 at Jamaica Pond (USA) on 18 April, boosted by the Boston Marathon. Largest Australian fronds: a frond of 8 at Toowoomba on 11 April and a frond of 17 at Waggie Bridge on 18 April, including Obi winner Roberta Winters.

• Episode 447 - You raise me up

  Largest international frond on 4 April was four adventurers at East Holmes Field - Shane Corcoran, Calum Burrell, Ali Sheppard and Andy Wilkinson. Pilgrimages: two adventurers at Bushy on 28 March (Matt Miller and Nicholas Stott), none on 4 April. Largest Aussie frond was 10 at Coonawarra - Daryl, John and Thomas Smith, Jutta Howe, Donna Anderson, Archer Oliver, Caitlin, Joe Richards and Joss Fingo. Closes with the reminder that the Adventurers Club can be one of your five parkrun affiliations.

• Episode 443 - Gelato in Milano

  Largest fronds within the CCR. Internationally: a frond of four at White Promenade (UK) on 31 Jan (James Newt, Gail Bengert, Cass Castleton and VKP), and a frond of seven at Wimbledon Common on 7 Feb (Debbie and Andy Airey, Denise Evans, Martin Waller, Rhiannon Taylor, Tina Durie and James Nottingham) — James biggest two weeks running. Largest Aussie fronds picked at random: De Soza, Victoria on 31 Jan (frond of seven — Dermot Johnson, Vicki Hallam, Greg Moore, Marg Prowse, Joanna McCarthy, Christy Gange and Dave Westaway) and Victory Road Reserve on 7 Feb (frond of 11), with Woden Town also on 11.

• Episode 442 - A Lil Bit of Hope

  Largest gatherings of Adventurers: internationally 12 people at Ushaw Historic House (UK) on 17 January and seven in Poland on 24 January; in Australia 18 at Redall Reserve on 17 January and six at Bibra Lake WA on 24 January. Read out inside the Consolidated Club Report block, with named member lists.