I'm just a teenage DIRTBAG Baby, like you!

Migrating back East from her home in the west, coach Ellie's wings spread far and wide to rejoin the awesome family that is Hackney GG.

Meeting as usual in the E5 bakehouse, the crew trickled in under cover from the last of the rain. One by one, the Girl Power posse packed the rafters. Ellie, Antonia, Annetto, Sophie, Jo, April and Kate were only accompanied by one fair gent this week - Christian, who held it down proud for the boys!!

After a brief housekeeping the team were ready to hit the Hackney pavements hard achieve whatever the task was that lay ahead.

This week it was: Emptying the Decorative Soil Boxes on Narrow Street, to make way for the resurfacing, modernisation and general beautifying of the area.

This amazing community project has happened as a result of several partnership organisations coming together to improve the community for the people of Hackney. That partnership is made up of - Hackney Council, Wilton Estate Community Gardens, Cordwainers Community Garden, St Mary's Secret Garden and The Stroke Project on Well Street!!!

So, with raincoats zipped, we hit the road, journeying through London fields for a quick equipment grab from Wilton Estate, before hot footing it, with wheelbarrows and spades, towards Narrow Street and the task.

It has to be said - Nothing is funnier than watching the madness of GG red tees hurtling through Hackney centre brandishing all array of gardening tools to the horror of the locals! Hillarious.

Before long we'd arrived at point 2, where the fab Anne from Hackney Council was there to greet and explain the task ahead. Getting stuck in straight away the team rolled up their sleeves and began the work.

We began with Vigor - Shovelling soil, filling giant white bags and identifying good from bad (our technique was.... Crunchy? not Crunchy?)

After 40mins of graft the team were out of puff, but with still more work to be done, we shall see them again next week. A swift run back to the equipment drop and an even swifter tail back through the Fields and we were back for a stretch to close the night.

Great task, amazing team and a GoodGym Hackney done for the night!!