It's always a great time at the Brookvale Village Hall and last night was no different. The mission for the day was to paint the rundown notice board and outdoor posts green and to blow up some flowers for the upcoming Brookvale in Bloom campaign!

It was amazing having Jane & Yeun join us for their first sessions and special shout out to Yuen who missed us at the Social Club so jogged to meet us at the Hall.

Samantha came properly prepared with a full painting outfit and Charli was very impressive with the amount of pain they managed get covered with!

Thanks to Tazmin for leading the walking group back and Yazid for coming with the jogging group.

We followed all of this up with some greta food at the Grrek Street which is a part of the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club.

Thank you once again to Brookvale Village Hall for the hospitality with tea and snacks!

We had a lot of fun constructing two outdoor benches/storage boxes at the Brookvale Village Hall.

These benches had been donated back in November last year after sitting in a shed for 4 years due to being quite difficult to construct.

We learned the truth of this as the first bench took us 1 hour and 15 minutes to construct, this time was spent using brute force, working out the instructions made it impossible to complete and some slight arguing over which was was forwards.

But following the lead of Tazmin and Evelyn with Charli & myself happily doing what we were told we were eventually able to complete the first one.

Then as if to make up for this we constructed the second in record time, clocking in at just over 12 minutes from start to finish.

We also couldn't have done all of this without the help of Marian from the Brookvale Village Hall who helped the construction and made us very welcome!

All in all it was a lot of fun, very rewarding and we can't wait to be back again.