The lovely Ms Y struggled to describe what she wanted cake-wise today, she said that they were striped and then made horses hooves movements. I remarked that I don’t think that the Co-Op sells Riders of the Apocalypse cakes… after a lot of laughter we eventually worked out that it was Angel Cake that she wanted which fortunately the Co-Op did have in stock.

Tuesday saw Good Gym back at TRAID in Lewisham, a pre-loved clothes shop that helps to raise money for projects around the world.

3 keen volunteers turned up ready to sort the clothes ready for transfer to a different shop but, wait, were we late? On arrival the racks were already mostly empty, as the regular volunteers had started early. Undaunted, we adapted to the situation and were soon put to work cleaning the racks of dust that was probably there when Methuselah was a boy, The racks clean, we moved on to cleaning the floor and soon everything was looking spick and span.

It was a small, but mighty group that left Glass Mill taking the scenic route through Brookmill Park (there were once lots of mills along the Ravensbourne) to The Albany, meeting Joseph at the door. We were given a brief tour - seeing the stage where a former Area Activator had once performed.

Its Open House weekend fairly soon and we were given video instructions as to what was needed - moving one side of a pile of wood chip to paths in the garden area. It was the first task of the season that needed head torches to see help with the raking on the path.

A lovely session at St Mary’s Therapeutic Garden using the wood chip from the last couple of weeks on flower beds, having watered them first.

Shopping for the lovely Mr J follows a standard pattern. The first items are the green vegetables, followed by berries.
Today was unusual in that the only berries were the pyracantha on the way home. Usually, there are blueberries, strawberries and often raspberries.

The reason was that Mrs J is in hospital at the moment and I think she is the berry eater.

Other than the berries, it was a a fairly standard list, with the addition of frozen garlic bread.

There were four GG members litter picking in three boroughs today, Cecilia and Ivar in Greenwich, Adi in Lewisham and Paul in Southwark.

Cecilia and Ivar picked an area just outside Sutcliffe Park, where they had been at parkrun. They managed to collect a whole bag of recyclables and another bag of general waste - impressive work! They also spread the word about GG a passer by who congratulated them on their work!

Adi was out early in Sydenham's Mayow Park and found much less litter but left the park beautiful and clean!

Paul was out with his trusty bag for life and litter picker with friends from The Green Runners after Southwark parkrun. The bag was filled twice before heading back to home ground. '