So..... how good are people with imperial measurements?

The M in the subject stands for Mile... so we are talking distance. But can anyone tell me what the F stands for? And on another level of trickiness, the P?

Answers at the bottom.

The Terrific Trio (not sure why autocorrect kept making that Terrible...😇) set off on a little trip mixing exploring & timing with tidying up. I.E. a litter pick with a target. This time around we went down the other side of the high street, making mental notes on bigger troublespots to revisit another day.

The guerilla gardening spots at Snaresbrook Station were remarkably clean - looks like Marian's crew still manages to climb up there!

Heading back towards the Green Man roundabout we came across the High Stone that triggered the subject and start of this report... The stone itself is so worn out that the text is no longer readable, but luckily there is a plate nearby with a copy of the text. It did not contain an explanation of the measurements, but it did spurr on several team members to speculate and research what it could be...

M for Mile

F for Furlong, 1/8 of a mile

P for Perch, 1/40 of a Furlong

P.S.. hope you can make it down next time, Racha

turned up early and watered the plants, didn't do a full watering just the top of them, took about 30 minutes, both walked there

AJ assisted local community organisers to pick up food and drink items for distribution. Everything went very smoothly and the task was completed as scheduled.

This session started a little different than usual, with a briefing highlighting the issues caused by the Cyclospora outbreak and how it impacts on the foodbank.

Turned out there is a list of items to look out for and take out of circulation!

Beyond that, business as usual.

Things were a little fraught when we first started at Frenford Foodbank today. We were two people down on the task owner side, one was the boss and the other was the one who sorts the admin.Ed and Addie sorted out the set up with the efficiency which befits their experience. For the most part the stand-ins had done a good job with the admin but Linda still had a little extra sorting to do. The result was people turning up before the paper work was ready making Linda grumpy-er than usual, sorry people 🙈 Peter continued to wind Linda up and was rewarded with a playful shove - not sorry for that 🤪. Natalie quietly got on with the job taking everything in her stride as always. With the other three Friends of Frenford working with us we finished quickly, had our usual refreshing tea, bickies and natter before making our ways home.

ended up going at lunchtime. a quick water, sadly the last half-empty bag of compost was stolen! And it looks like two older planters completely dried out, wondering if something was poured onto them...:(

BUT apart from that things are looking good on other planters!