A nice short but physical morning task in Regents Park.

We had two big ton sacks of heavy wet top soil to bag up and loaded into the van where it went to Ingestre Estate to be used in the raised beds and pots for trees left over from our earlier tree planting this year.

A good work out shovelling and lifting!

(Thanks Camden Linda for the pun...)

At the end of last year last year we planted some trees in Ingestre woods. The local TRA and the nursery recently asked us to help further by making some plaques for the existing larger trees, to label the species.

John and Caitlin, despite neither being carpentry experts, managed to create some roughly rectangular bits of wood for this purpose, from large, thin pieces of wood which were quite resistant to keeping still while being sawed.

Meanwhile, Kate and Katie set to work repairing a compost bin, the sides of which were rotting. They chose some suitable pieces of wood from a pile of discarded planks, which seemed roughly the right size, measured them carefully and sawed them down to precisely the correct width.

Using an electronic drill, the rotten planks were removed from the composter, and when they were replaced with the newly -cut wood, the compost bin resembled one put together by an expert carpenter.

That's GoodGym - you discover skills you never knew you had!

This week we we’re in Kentish Town practicing our carpentry skills cutting large pieces of board into various sizes for labelling trees in Ingestre Wood.

The rain managed to hold of mostly, fingers crossed for the same next as there still lots more to do!