Is it too early for the C word?! We are just making sure the local community save the date for the MOST festive, fun, fayre of the year! We split into two teams to cover the left and right sides of Aldermoor Road and managed to come back with only 5 leaflets left after an hour of delivering. We think the right side won as we came back with no leaflets…but apparently the left did also deliver to some of our houses so it was a real team effort!

We decided to do a litter pick between Rose Road and Aldermoor Community Farm as we had to change our session on the day. We know there is always a lot of litter on this road and wanted to give it a good tidy up for visitors to two of our favourite places to help. We only needed to do half a mile to get plenty of litter and we got to use the robot bins to dispose of it! Until next time Aldermoor Road…

Last night we were back in the respite garden to do a tidy up after a busy summer of use. We set to work sweeping up, weeding, cleaning the equipment and pressure washing the patio. We were happy to have provided the evening entertainment for one of the young people staying. They kept a close watch to make sure we were doing a good job! It was great to welcome two new members Poppy Ollie this evening and we hope to see you back again soon.

It was time to get the Rose Road vehicles clean after a busy summer holidays of outings. We quickly divided ourselves into innies and outties and off we went! It wasn’t long before we had four vehicles hoovered, dusted, litter picked and washed. We managed to squeeze in a quick wash for the big bus too before home time!

Lucy helped out at the Rose road stall at Wickham festival. It was a very hot but fun day selling flower headbands and 'helping' people make Dreamcatchers. There were lots of lovely friendly people and plenty of chances to enjoy the festival too, the highlight was bouncing around to the Proclaimers!

Tonight we got to work tidying up the flower beds in the Rose Road car park. A lot of the plants were overgrown in the sensory garden, bindweed had taken over and rubbish had blown in off the street. We carefully pruned, pulled, picked and swept to leave the main flower bed looking much smarter and the parking spaces clear. I don't know about everyone else, but I worked so hard with the secateurs I got a blister!