Bright Lights Big City

Holland Park Estate by Jenny.

Another great turn out at Papa's park this week, despite it getting ever colder and darker - good stuff! Before we got going we had a big round of applause for Katie who has hit 100 good deeds, and she and James were presented with their, erm, "prizes," which included some vital 1930s tips on how to be a good husband. Do share, James.

The group split in two for the runs and tasks, although it sounds like all the runners were doing something green-fingered. The faster group ran a total of 4 miles to St Bede's church, where they helped keep the flower beds looking lovely; those of us on the more sedate 2 mile run went to Holland Park Estate and also spent our evening in flowerbeds, pulling up weeds and getting the soil ready for a lot of fresh new plants.

Probably the most impressive feat of the night was Rebecca's bulk buy of a variety of torches for only £11- absolute bargain!

Having been told there would be cake on our return, I definitely ran quicker on the way back- and it didn't disappoint. Thanks Becca and Katie. I'm going to dream about chocolatey pastry goodness tonight. Another fab Tuesday night session- well done everyone!

St Bede's Church By James

Mulch ado about nothing

25 of us mulched our way up to St Bede's Church near Streatham Hill. They'd received a delivery of mulch and needed it spreading on their flowerbeds to release some bacteria-y goodness into the soil. We split into mulch collectors and mulch spreaders and got to task, enjoying the fresh aroma of newly ground mulch. Special mentions go to Elise for her gracious technique of throwing empty mulch buckets over a wall for them to be filled again, and to the various wheel barrowers transporting the mulch from the pile to the beds, many of them runnning while doing so. Once we'd coated the beds in double layers of mulch, we mulched on back down the hill to Papa's park.

MULCH LOVE