What an absolutely gorgeous evening for doing some good! ☀️

This evening we met at a buzzing Papa's Park. The music was blaring, the cafe was open and Valcie came to say hello!

We briefly discussed our favourite beverages for a day such as today (including several healthy and soft choices!) 🥵 and then we got going to Larkhall Park's petanque pitch/court/arena(???) which had definitely seen better days...

There we met Alex who gave us very clear instructions of our task:

• Uproot a load of weeds that had gone wild around the edge of the pitch
• Rake the gravel into piles
• Shovel the gravel into wheelbarrows
• Wheel the gravel to the big pile at the edge of the park so it can be reused

It was a proper workout but most of us switched up jobs so we didn't get too tired. Ed kept going on his weeding patch though, right up until the end. 👏

Some locals and one of the Friends of Larkhall Park who walked by said they were super grateful for what we were doing, pleased that the petanque pitch would finally see some use! (And definitely be easier on the eye...)

Petanque you very much

Nice work guys! Here's the link to next week's task and we'll head to the pub afterwards too! 🍹

Three of us met at the corner of Myatt's field to pick up the big bag and get started on the bind weed. As soon as we walked into the wild area of the park the bindweed was clear to see.

We managed to fill the bag in an hour and gave the hedge some much needed freedom to grow without being suffocated by bindweed.

Lots more to do so I'm sure we'll be back again soon.