It was a lovely sunny evening so we escaped from the noisy hall in Papa's to the outdoor space, which is still quite noise as there are many cars going by but Oh how lovely to ensure a different form of ear noise.

Tonight was Michael's 50th run - oh how we celebrated! Massive well done Michael. The other BIG NEWS was the Freyja had finally made a square egg with her Square Egg Maker - her Shit Prize of the Month award. Why one would want to make such an abomination it is unclear but John Hunter for one was certainly not on board.

It's an abomination! Said John Hunter.

We split the group into a shorter run to lovely Ruskin Park and a longer run to the Portico Gallery in West Norwood. Here's Tom B's report of what went down at Ruskin community gardens:

A crack team of 18 of us ran down to the south London hidden gem of Ruskin Park for an evening of gardening joy. We met Paula who introduced us to our patch. The garden itself is a cracking community space, which grows all manner of fruit and veg. Our mission - which we gladly accepted - was to weed two patches, cut a fine trench along one of them and tidy up a lovely round bed of plants that had become overrun. We set to task with vigor and pose and after 30 mins of good digging and forking by Joe we had ourselves some good-looking plots. Paula was delighted so all that was left was to take an extended shuffle around the park to get some banging views of our capital and then head back to papas. And if by magic we arrived when team portico were coming back too. A lovely evening and cracking task. Nice one team Ruskin's!

The rest of us headed up the mighty hill to West Norwood, which on a warm evening feels a lot longer and a lot harder than usual. John had some seriously organised chaos going on in the yard as all of the gazebos, sides and tarps were out after this month's West Norwood Feast. We had to move things from here to there and some things went over there, until the yard was looking more organised than chaotic. We all had to be very aware of the dangers of the old cement mixer somewhat inexplicably left slap bang in the middle of proceedings but everyone did very well.

And with that we all ran home and did some stretches and headed off into the night. Great work Lambeth!

Let me tell you this run was flipping sweaty! Not content with being all rainy, the weather decided to turn the world into a humid sweatbox just in time for our Tuesday evening run.

Some of our regulars are still recovering from their awesome efforts at the Paris marathon, so a smaller but indeed perfectly formed group of 21 covered two tasks with aplomb. James B led a group 1.5km to the Remakery. This brilliant space has a workshop and teaches people how to recycle unloved materials and turn them into things of wonder and beauty again. Nice!

They had some moving of objects to do as part of a Spring clean, including a flipping PIANO! Top work team.

The rest of us headed on the 4km uphill journey to West Norwood and the Portico Gallery. The courtyard area outside needed tidying up. In particular, a massive pile of ash and bricks had to be pulled apart after 'too many hippies had started fires there'.

It's the hippies! Said John.

After putting all the bricks to one side so they can be saved for something else, all of the ash was scraped up and put in sacks ready to be taken away. We also moved some large metal structures from here to there and put some big bags full of stones onto a trolley (these act as weights for the gazebos used in the West Norwood Feast!).

The downhill run home was a bit easier but it was still very sticky and we were all glad to go and have a nice shower at the end. Not together though.

Everyone clearly had increased energy from the mass chocolate consumption over Easter as loads of people brought their documents to be checked so they can do our work with older people. Woohoo!

We started the evening by celebrating George who hit 100 big ones. Nice one George!

A small group went off with John to dig some soil out of planters at a GP Surgery in Stockwell. We'll be moving the planters to another surgery and re-filling them with soil quite soon.

The rest were back to Clapham Common to continue our work making a wildflower meadow. This week, we got to turn the soil from the two strips already made and we planted some flowers! It's a true honour that GoodGym got to lay the first plants in this lovely new space. You can see a nice tweet with photos of our handiwork here.

We did some stretches back at base and look forward to next week being even lighter than this one!