HEN is a residents' association covering Hartham, Elsden and Newlyn Roads in Tottenham. This was a new task for us, and we were warmly welcomed by Matt, who had a few tasks for us to help prepare for their upcoming street party.

First up there was hair: Matt produced a hedge trimmer and before you could say "short back and sides" Mark had got to work on an overgrown hedge across the road, where until recently the association's longest-standing and much-loved resident had lived. Around the corner, resident Sophie had a barnet of Marge Simpson proportions for Mark to tackle. Finally, James had a go at executing a mullet for a resident who is currently injured and unable to cut his own hedge.

Of course, the streets will not be ready for the party without a bit of makeup. Matt showed us a couple of areas that have been tagged by people with a demonstrable lack of talent. James and Helen got stuck in with paintbrushes and a tin of grey paint, with Sarah providing moral support (eg "you missed a bit"). These are now blank canvasses, and Matt has plans to stencil them in the future.

Matt has promised to invite us to the upcoming HEN do, while both he and Sophie said they may join us on a run one day soon.

There were more reasons for celebration tonight too - Sarah and James' recent birthdays, and James' tenth good deed. Great work team.

Another warm and sunny day with plenty to do in the garden. Everything is growing at a rapid pace now. It was Olga's first good deed with Goodgym - she joined recently - welcome Olga! After 2 hours in which much was accomplished, the team enjoyed the traditional lunch under the Mulberry Tree. The mulberry tree, along with others, was subjected to quite severe pruning a few months ago but is starting to show early signs of mulberries, although likely the cheery tree and plum trees will have fruit ready earlier. Some rain would be great - but hey, hard not to appreciate the sunshine!

5 runners ran to the Haringey Learning Partnership to prepare the ground for a new shed.

The base for a new shed had been set-out, but needed reinforcing. The ground between the beams needed lowing to allow for further reinforcement to be added. So that called for us to get out the mattocks and swing away and the rocks and roots!

It's amazing to see the changes taking place. The pond we helped dig filling up with frogspawn. The new chicken coop.

Soon we'd dug out a basement level, and had a few minutes to spare, and squeezed in a quick tidy up of old green waste bags, and got a good arm workout moving the pallets ready for construction!

Our first session at the Harringay Night Shelter and it was a good one. Moya welcomed us, explained what needed doing, and Latoya, Julie and Mark got cracking, with Asan joining shortly afterwards. It's a winter night shelter, somewhat eerily located in out of use church premises, which went in to recess for the summer a few weeks ago. Linen needed to be put in storage, beds folded and put away, the sleeping area vacuumed, bathrooms cleaned, etc .... Latoya demonstrated her interior design skills by re-purposing the sleeping area in to a comfortable lounge space. Congratulations to Asan- this was his 10th good deed, achieved in short time and with great enthusiasm and a 100+% effort at everything he does! There's plenty more cleaning, sorting and tidying to be done (including the kitchen !) so expect to see another task listing soon!

Another great session in the Mulberry Tree Community Garden. It was wonderful to have goodgymer Ky join Asan and Mark along with other regular volunteers. There were a large number of tasks of which many got done, followed by lunch under the mulberry tree.

Fortunately Ms B had found a friendly workman to fix her loose door handle, so her only request when I arrived this afternoon was to turn her mattress - this one had handles (unlike one we'd removed from her flat a while back...), so after a deep breath, it was just a case of lift, twist, rotate and land all in (nearly) one movement.