Sheila and myself cycled to Ms L's place this afternoon to help her with some small jobs around the house, mainly involving a screwdriver, as we were told in the task description. We were both a bit concerned on how much we could help, as neither one of us is excelling in DIY-ing aroundour homes!... However we embraced the 'how hard can it be' attitude and showed up anyway! Ms L told us about her recent unfortunate experience when she tried to get work done in the house and ended up conned, a very sad experience that left her unsure what to do and who to trust now... We ended up doing the measuring for new curtains in the lounge, fix one of the curtains rail that needed a screw fixed and also cleaned up the floor in the garage under the leaking old freezer, so that Ms L can now order a replacement freezer and place it on the clean floor. Ms L was delighted with our help, and now she can move on and order the curtains and the new freezer.

Anne Laure and Jen were tasked with clearing all the 'woody bits' from the dry hedge zone, adding them to the dry hedge and finishing off by adding the teasles for decoration.

Meanwhile Nivi supervised the work going on in the nursery area by the DofE volunteers and captured everyone's efforts for social media.

Welfare visit for Mrs D

Georgeta, Ed and Sheila gathered at the community allotment on a very sunny evening. The plants in the greenhouse were completely dehydrated, so Georgeta took on the task of doing all the watering, and she continued watering all the outside beds too. Ed and Sheila added horse manure to a raised bed and erected a wigwam from canes. Then it was time to plant the climbing beans, tie them in and give them a good water.The last job of the day was to add some manure to an empty bed, and Ed then did a great job in delivering the heavy bags of topsoil to spread on the top. A lucky Robin was spotted feasting on the beautiful worms from the manure, who we named Mrs Fluffy as she(?) has some distinctive fluffy feathers on her back. Thanks to Georgeta for the beautiful photo of Mrs Fluffy

Sheila, Carol and Karen helped at the Baby Bank this morning, following the usual routine of clothes checking and sorting. Punctuated every now and again with a cry for help from downstairs to help carry donations upstairs. We were pleased to be able to leave the sorting tables empty by the end of the session, ready for business to resume after the bank holiday weekend

Karen, Sue, Maggie and Sheila met on a beautiful sunny morning at Spital Cemetery to help tidy up some graves. The first grave we attacked, had been overrun with brambles. Once we had cleared the area, it was revealed to be in memory of 3 sisters, daughters of John George Care. A quick Google revealed that they had 15 siblings and another 11 half siblings! Mr Carey, an architect and surveyor of Gloucester Place, had been a busy man!These were the 3 unmarried daughters. We moved on to trim a Pyracantha bush, whose thorny branches were overhanging the path. Lastly we cleared some branches of a wild rose masking another grave belonging to Richard Mentz-Tolley, who we discovered to be an Ironmaker of Osborne Road, Windsor. Karen and Sue worked hard to uncover the beautiful stone cross which had fallen onto the grave, but since covered over with soil and creeping weeds A really interesting morning!