As always there was a mix of things to do for the lovely Ms L, whose Motor Neuron Disease has removed much of her manual dexterity. They are things that carers aren’t able to do for her.

There were a few issues to sort out on her phone - she’d accidentally switched it on to night mode. It became clear whilst sorting that she wasn’t using the capability to do voice searches on her phone, so we practiced a couple of those.

After watering the plants on the balcony, we went through some boxes - a broken CD player and some other electrical stuff was thrown away. We admired some of the ceramics that she’d made before her MND diagnosis. As always we chatted a lot and had a cuppa, it is probably the most important part of the visit - two friends catching up.

A double dose of volunteering at Catford parkrun - course check before (only litter picking today) and tail walking during. I was wearing the rarely seen 2021 GoodGym away kit as it goes better with the tail walker tabard.

After being mistaken for a traffic warden whilst doing some citizen science, checking young trees for Street Trees for Living yesterday, today I was accused of working for Lewisham Council whilst doing the samw thing. Everything was fine after I explained what I was doing. A real mixture of findings - one hawthorn appeared to be dead, but another 100 metres away was flourishing. Generally most seemed to be surviving despite the drought.

A lovely morning at Wildcat, it was a session of two parts - the first picking up fallen apples ans sorting those for composting and those that could be used for cooking. When doing this I struggled with one tree as it had be taken over by brambles. So I tried to get rid of the brambles using what sounded like a death metal band, but was one of the most lethal looking garden tools I've ever used - a Root Slayer. Along with some secateurs it was extremely effective, it sounded terrible though.