I was followed on today’s mission by a Herring Gull for about 50 metres along Deptford High Street, presumably hopeful that Mr J’s shop had included some fish from Iceland, it hadn’t. It was the normal fayre of heavy and bulky items, soft fruit plus choosing some red wine for him.

And yes it could have done with two GGers and a dog would have been nice too. Ms E’s lawn probably hadn’t been cut for over a year and was a bit like a meadow. Three cuts at decreasing heights and Lewisham garden waste bin full of grass later and it was nearer to a lawn. It will take a few more cuts to recover.

A common frog was rescued from being killed by the lawnmower - the picture while one of mine is illustrative rather than the one seen in Ms E’s garden.

We started off with the Third Man, a Graham Greene novel I had noticed on his bookshelf but chatted a lot about one of Mr R’s interests, Victorian photography before moving on to collecting, vinyl music and parakeets. We will meander some more next week.

Our group run this week was flyering for Coco Collective which is a community garden in Bellingham, they also have a site in Catford. We were promoting their volunteer sessions and also their wellbeing sessions which started in April.

Welcome to Mo - your first group run was a long run so hopefully you join us next week for a short one to St Mary's Church!

When we arrived at the community garden, the first task was locating the flyers which was super easy after the last time when we had to find them in the pitch black garden having never been there before!!

We then ran to meet Marta at the designated flyering start point, only about 8 minutes later than I'd said...

We split into 2 groups: one coming with me and one with Steve. Armed with highlighted maps of the area, we went our opposite ways with the aim to meet back at the start point at 8pm.

100's of flyers delivered, all fingers in tact and hopefully we have spread the word about this wonderful community project!

I will admit it was further than I expected but everyone made it - well done!!

Once we’d figured out how to follow a tricky Step 1 in the instruction booklet, Mark and I worked as speedily as possible to assemble Mr P’s spacious sideboard. As flat pack challenges go, this was pretty straightforward – although more than once, we had a ‘two heads are better than one’ moment as we concentrated on completing the many steps without making mistakes. Mr P chatted to us as we tackled the task and it was a pleasure to hear the excitement in his voice as his new piece of furniture took shape.

After an hour-and-a-half, we had the framework standing solidly on its legs and had mastered the drawer-construction technique. Another GoodGym visit will be needed to finish off the six drawers and add handles, then job done!

A small but mighty group of GoodGymers gathered to tackle the remaining woodchip at the Tiny Forest. Part of the group even gathered at a new start point and then met Linda at the Tiny Forest with all the tools.

The main task for the evening was to make the area around the benches look more inviting. We pulled up the weeds that we could and cut back the grass and any other weeds then covered them in a big layer of mulch to hopefully stop the weeds coming back through.

Hopefully the space will be more inviting for people walking through Ladywell Fields so they can sit and admire the growing saplings!

On Monday, we're heading to Catford to continue flyering for Coco Collective Community Garden.