What a wonderful couple of weeks for achievements in the Blue Borough, we've had:

1. Steve's 500th good deed, in fact it was his 502nd last night!!

2. Linda's 100th good deed, actually her 101st last night

3. Iitmari's 100th good deed, which came as a surprise but I've seen it nearing the past couple of group runs!

Congrats - you've all done an amazing amount of good in our borough and I can't wait to celebrate your next 100 good deeds with you.

Onto the task for this week, we were heading to the Tiny Forest in Ladywell Fields to help build their extension as they're planting another 200 saplings at the site. It was a good strength workout as the ground was pretty hard from all the hot weather we've had recently!

The group split into smaller groups with a group digging the next trench, we had to dig 50cm down and put that soil on the first trench and then loosen the soil below.

There was another group raking the dried grass which will be the organic matter in the soil sandwich above.

Another group tackling the pile of woodchip which had become overrun with pesky bindweed and brambles. That will be used around the extension once the saplings are planted.

Next up was a group tackling the weeding in the Tiny Forest. This was a delicate task of taking bindweed off the tiny saplings to make sure they grow big and strong.

The main task of the evening was making sure the Tiny Forest dog was kept entertained and that was a group effort!

Well done for getting stuck in with the various tasks, we'll be back mid-October, with lights to continue the hard work.

*it's most definitely head torch time towards the end of tasks so dig those head torches out!

With last minute change of plans which changed from Luxmore Gardens to Litter Picking to St Mary's Church - I'm surprised any of us knew where we were off to!

The team gathered outside Glass Mill, making the most of the sunshine, and ready to good in the borough. After a quick warm up we headed off on the 1km run to St Mary's Church.

There's always a variety of tasks at St Mary's Church including clearing alkinet (a GG staple), planting plants in the shady border, watering plants, sweeping paths, sanding benches and sowing seeds. All guided by the lovely people of St Marys Church and expert gardener Sue.

There was just enough time for water and a couple of biscuits before we headed off back to Glass Mill.

Next week we are heading to Marsha Phoenix Trust to help in the garden and we have a post-group run social. Don't forget its a bank holiday so Glass Mill won't be open!

A smaller group this week with some of our regulars being at Love Trails Festival so it wasn't long before we were all gathered at Glass Mill and ready to get going.

I left everyone to the new warm up that Oli had planned for the evening and set off on a walk up the hill to Luxmore Gardens. It wasn't that long before the group came running past me, luckily it was a shorter run and we only ended up arriving a couple of minutes apart.

Another week, another flower bed to de-weed at Luxmore Gardens. We are gradually moving down the flower beds and this time we were situated near the water fountain where bindweed was taking over!

In a change of tradition we took the group photo first as I wasn't sure I'd make it to then end. Spoiler alert: I didn't make it to the end.

Anything could have happened after I headed off to get the bus but for purposes of this run report, everyone continued weeding and the beds looked beautiful!!