Working with Mike (Urban Green), Damu and myself cut back overgrown plants around the playground and along the paths. Very satisfying.....though, what had to be the highlight of the morning, was watching Mike "fish out" a Wheelie Bin from a pond. As always with Mike, (the fount of all knowledge ), we now know that a new wheelie bin costs £27, there were 56 set alight last year (what is that about??) and that their axles don't melt! Finally, kudos to Damu who has done 2 GG tasks in 2 days this weekend and currently wears the "best pun" crown but failed to give one for me today - as you can tell :)

It was urbangreen's 100th task and we all showed up to Hodgkin park pretty excited and prepared with some surprises. Mike was there on a purely volunteer role but he shared lovely stories about the park as usual. Today's job was to take down the Ivy that had covered a massive section of the wall. It looked pretty satisfying at first. Taking down entire sections of Ivy. But we had to drag it uphill, so it was out of the way and we were all sweaty and out of breath in no time! Our tea/coffee break was extra special as Mike had brought in a chocolate cake and Lucy's mum baked us some lovely cupcakes to celebrate the occasion. We managed to clear off quite a lot of Ivy. All in all a very exciting task and I thoroughly enjoyed it!