Paul and I snuck down to the Community Grocery in North Finchley again this week. An unspecified shipment of goods were expected once again from the Felix Project and we were there to intercept and unload the merchandise.

Wearing our trusty Goodgym disguises, we hung around inconspicuously with Gus at the entrance pretending to be a dog therapy unit. Then the delivery van arrived and we hotfooted it up and down the ramp with cages and trolleys, unloading the shipment.

A parking attended briefly stopped to ask how long the trick would be sat in the electric charging space, but we kept our cool, didn't break our cover, and got the job done in record time.

An excellent way to start the week!

Our first mission cleaning up the Glebelands Open Space in advance of a community gathering started at the corner of the Glebelands Indoor Bowls Club. Jacqui arrived first, beating me to it, soon followed by Fanny with a handy little helper in tow.

We scoured the bushes down the slip road and soon hit the jackpot along the fence along the David Lloyd car park. An unbelievable mess of litter, fast food, plastics, clothes, cans, bottles. Then - out of nowhere! - Paul arrived with Gus (who'd already litter picked a random tennis ball), bringing a second burst of energy. Jacqui and Fanny then had to leave, but - wow! - Richard arrived and boom! We smashed a few more sacks in the last 30min.

We carried the sacks, about a dozen canisters, some signs, a clothes frame and a baby car chair over the corner of the slip road, reported everything and trotted off into the sunshine with a good deed under our belts.

The area still has a lot more work to do, but we have to be careful, as we've been notified by ecologists that there may be important species living in the trash in some of the more overgrown areas. We'll be extra careful around the club house and take advice from an expert when we come back next week.

Richard and I rocked up in blistering heat for our garden tidy up mission. Our host has been poorly for a while and looking sadly at the weeds taking over the little patch of respite, as well as around the driveway in the front.

We set to with tools, digging weeds from the flowerbeds. We needed to put the hose on the soil, it was so hot, and within minutes we were cooked, so took regular breaks in the shade. I started on the mowing, while Richard dug the larger comfrey, thistles and dandelions from the lawn.

Then we moved to the front. Our host asked us to swap out one of the potted plants in the back for one in the beds at the front, so after weeding a bit and sweeping the paths, we finished up with the plant swap and carried the repotted plant to the back garden again and watered it.

Then we watered ourselves again because it was sooooo hot!