I'd hardly sat down before Mr T pointed to his curtains and said that his kindly neighbour had put the old set through the washing machine and were ready to be rehung, so that was a task to be done once I'd ventured up and down Tottenham Court Road.

Not willing to let Mr T anywhere near a step ladder, I was up and down a few times to get the "stand ins" removed off the curtain cord, and the old new ones put back in their place - there might even have been a round of applause at the end...fortunately it didn't bring the house down.

12 GoodGymers caught sixty spring–sun–shining minutes in Camden!

Under bright blue skies — and as rush hour pushed into twilight — lovely people started arriving at the Cecil Sharp House garden yesterday evening.

Some were dressed in red and everyone looked locked and ready for some form of altruistic action!

First we said a big hello to our three new faces 👉 welcome to the group, Giulia, Maggie, and Sarah!!

Second we said hello to our regular faces 👉 great to see you Ariane, Helen, Jackie, John, Karen, Siobhan, Theo, and Thierry!

And third... we played Simon Says!

Which loosened our limbs and prepared us perfectly for the wonderful difference this group made:

💚 Every yard and metre (even every inch!) of pathway was swept free of litter and blossom

💚 Sackfuls of weeds from nooks and crannies were plucked ready for composting

💚 Bundles of leaves and debris disappeared leaving the greenhouse space spic and span

Thank you, everyone! See you soon!

P.S. Thank you to Ariane for the many photos!

P.P.S. Thank you for Theo for taking the group photo!

Miss V commented on the promptness of my arrival and said to me that only GoodGymmers actually arrive precisely on time - I took that as a badge of honour on behalf of all the volunteers who have helped her! She and I both know the routine - the packaging and bags of rubbish were already outside the door, and so it was just a case of getting them downstairs and into the respective bins.

3 GoodGymers enjoy a fabulous sunset while making a difference in Highgate!

Our lovely group — Jackie, Lydia, and I — made our way up and over to the Holly Lodge Estate last night to help spread the word about a very special community project.

Claudia from Growing Green is coordinating a Hedgehog Highway on the estate — small hedgehog-sized holes in fences that allow our prickly friends the freedom to roam — and we were spreading the word among the estate's residents :)

We posted leaflets in multiple doors and all while the light faded into beautiful oranges and reds :)

An evening very well spent! Thank you, both!

It was clearly becoming a Friday afternoon for bugs - in this case some flies that somehow had got inside Mrs M's bathroom light cover. All I needed to do was stand on a small stool and unscrew the cover so that we could remove said beasts (swiftly disposed of into the toilet), and all would be clear and light once again in her bathroom.

Mr T was keen to show me some unusual indentations on his carpet, thinking that perhaps little beasties (of some description, but we didn't think moths) were making a meal of it - and so at his request, before picking up the rest of his weekly shop, I diverted via Robert Dyas to get some suitable potion to apply which hopefully will rid him of this issue. I'm already looking forward to next week's debrief.