First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Tracey, who decided to spend her special day volunteering. What a legend! Thank you for bringing cake, and apologies if your ear drums never recover from that rendition of Happy Birthday.

Barbara's list of indoor tasks mostly involved hoovering. The lads channeled their inner-Freddie Mercury's and covered a huge amount of carpet in the time we were there. Unfortunately, just on the last corner, Jim's Dyson initiated a dirty protest and spewed it's dust-container contents back out. Katie came to to the rescue with her trusty dustpan and brush, which had already had a workout on the window ledges. Little Henry Hoover also seemed to have a lot of rage - he screamed his way around the synagogue with a banshee-level of ear-piercingness.

Meanwhile, Tracey tagged me in and finished up the mopping, just in time to head home. Well done team on a good evening's work.

With the dark coming in earlier every day now, our trip to the synagogue garden was limited to the paths around the outside of the main building.

After channeling our inner witches by riding the brooms, the team managed to sweep and clear the paths in no time at all. Dave even got his regular dip in the garden waste bin!

Meanwhile, I hoovered inside the building, and was later joined by Katie who followed me round with the mop.

There were only a small number of us for the task this evening, and Barbara had set one of our biggest challenges yet - clear a path from the gardens to the tap!

It looked pretty daunting to start with, but after we got the strimmers up and running, and David got to grips with a new scraping tool, we were on a roll! The eclipse let us down a bit in its spectacular-ness, but we were able to see to power through to the end. Swings and roundabouts, I guess!