Monday saw Good Gym back at Seniors for one of our favourite decorating tasks, namely putting up the decorations for the Halloween party. We were met by the amazing Di who soon put us to work.

This wasn't a task for Arachnophones or Chiroptophobes (yes I had to look that one up) as many of the decorations featured spiders and bats. There was also plenty of ectoplasm to go round, some witches hats to put up in the entrance hall and there were monstrous and bloody sheets to finish the job. Before you knew it the place was looking like something from one of George A Romero's nightmares and Di was suitably amazed that only 5 people put up so many decorations so quickly.

And the real horror is that after all that work we have to go back next week and take everything down again. Only joking, this was a really fun task and our efforts were truly appreciated

Today we went to Tiny Forest in Peckham Rye to take part in their tree survey. We mainly recorded the tree heights and stem diameters, which is useful for the Tiny Forest project so that they can measure amount of carbon stored in the forests. We managed to measure 20 trees in 30 minutes.

And our motivation for the evening was multiple birthday celebrations at Blythe Hill Tavern post-group run but first we needed to tackle the tasks Senior's had in store for us!

It was our last group run in the garden for the year as we'll now be heading indoors on our regular sessions at Senior's.

The tasks for the evening were watering a very specific set of plants, i.e. those that would still bear fruit this year and then moving a big pile of woodchip a short distance to create new paths around the raised beds.

We were done in quite quick time and the woodchip pile was significantly smaller! Next week we're heading to The Albany and don't forget headtorches as it will be dark in the garden.