On a very wintery Saturday morning. four us met Senia, head of a local residents' association in Battersea, to trim a rogue palm tree and sort out two very overgrown raised beds. After some quick weeding, pruning and bindweek-removing, we discussed tactics to stay warm in freezing pub gardens and Christmas plans before heading off to enjoy the weekend.

We finally went back to the bees!! I'd heard lots about Bee Urban, loads of people's favourite task, basically a collection of hives and flowers to keep the bees going and make some tasty honey. 😋

We had a beeeeautiful team, ready to get BUZZY. 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Barnaby gave us a couple of jobs:

🌸🌺🌼Planting bulbs - finding little spots around the park to plant some bulbs with some concise instructions 👌

🍂Sifting compost - shovelling a load of compost onto a big sieve to get rid of all the leaves (and twigs and sunglasses?!) and then wheelbarrowing that into a big sack - we filled 3!

After an hour we were done and hit the road (back in time for the Bake Off 🧁)

Nice to have some visitors from nearby - shout out to Miranda and Holly off of Hammersmith & Fulham and Emma from Southwark!

Also nice one Will - he SMASHED the London Marathon just two days ago 👏👏👏 And is booked in for another one in just a month!