The original idea was to help set up the family party for our friends at the canal club, not least so Tower Hamlets had a Saturday morning task that week

As it happened, we were involved in another task https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/setting-up-a-stall-for-the-cemetery-park-summer-fair-c49d2f87-92f2-412b-8628-5a61e8b8a8dc that morning, and coincidently, Sally from the canal club phoned on Wednesday to suggest we instead served coffee in the afternoon. Synchonisity!

So five of us turned up in dribs and drabs, to find the task had changed yet again – we were now looking after the barbeque! And it turned out that special guest Sooz from Hackney was a dab hand at turning chicken, halal skewers and sweetcorn, until they were just nicely cooked through the inside

Other useful attendees were Sam, despite a late night at the Queen’s Head in St Pancras, Ilana, who’d just knocked nearly a minute off her previous ParkRun PB (despite a lack of photographic evidence), and Adam and Emma, who stayed well beyond the call of duty in order to tend the barbeque and keep everything safe and sound.

Another enjoyable social gardening club with St Margaret's House. In this visit it was time to harvest the lavender and sort the leaf mulch cages ahead of the mulberry tree leaves dropping.

There was a bumper amount of lavender and with the sun shining out the front, it made for a fine spot to volunteer. Sam had to dash off early to see Odyssey (again) and Emma stayed on, getting into a crafty swing of weaving the lavender into decorative baskets.

Next month's social gardening club is on Wednesday 23rd September between 4-7pm.