Legitimate t-shirt weather yesterday, possibly for the first Wednesday this year. Jack, Brad, Louise and I jogged in a north easterly direction towards the mural. On route we discussed our favourite crisps: Brannigans, Mccoys - Cheese and Onion, Kettle Chips - Salsa and Mesquite. Other points of conversation were Jack's 100mile walk, The Hammer's and the Europa Conference League, what defines a crisp, Honiton and Jarvis Cocker at the BRIT awards.

Joined by Rosa, Paul, Shaz and Kev at the wall, we lingered for a bit, then tried to open the anti graffiti tub, which we were tasked with applying to the wall. After finally managing to pry it open, when Jack precisely whacked down a roller a millimeter from my lovely hands onto a worriedly held screw driver...we found out the liquid had solidified. A very unfortunate user error, hopefully they can get more and we can find a Wednesday in the coming weeks.

The contingency plan was rather well organised, we shipped over to The Up Garden and completed a reshuffle of the yard corner. Moving half a tonne bag of sand, propping up some fences, relocating some crates and wooden planks then finally bagging a lot of rubble. Our octet made light work of it, but I suspect without us that would have taken a rather long time.

Next week, our old haunt - Cody Dock, need our help setting up for an event. Sign up here to lend a hand to this canal-side community gem.

Till then,

B

Buffeted by brisk winds a quartet ran northwards to The Up Garden, discussing our least favourite invention. I had potentially too much time to consider, starting off with the plough, the instigator of the developed world? But quickly reverted to a back-up, the gun. Hils went for cars, Ruth doesn't want 4g on her phone and Jack prefers to not be notified that his headphone volume is too high. We're all basically luddites, good stuff.

The Princes and Sarah had obviously beaten us there, they had already banked some miles and were beavering away on the mural. We joined in, weeding below the mural wall and painting the bottom bricks. The final few touches before it's finished. We discussed Coronation stuff...and Night of The 10k's, this is the mad running festival on hampstead heath, organised by my bro, it's now one of the fastest races on the planet, it's free and it's very much worth coming along to (volunteering or not). See here or sign up here for volunteering.

Next week we dash over Get Out, fresh from our last potato planting session, Kieran is super keen for our help. sign up here

Till then,

B

Big thank you to Hilary for leading Jack and Becky on her first run with GoodGym along the rainy pavements of Newham from Jom and Tonic to the Up Garden.

James also joined us for his first GoodGym task but like Paul,Kevin and I made his way directly to The Up Garden dodging the puddles.

Gabion bench filling was the task for tonight 6 benches and 6 seats need stones placing in the baskets to ensure they will not move.

We split into 2 groups wheelbarrow fillers which due to the amount of rain washed the stones ready for the others to fill the baskets.

We were all very grateful for the pergola to shelter under for a few minutes during a very heavy downpour but as it eased we pushed on to get the last baskets filled.

Baskets filled and seats in place we said our goodbyes before heading off into the night to get home for a hot bath and a large mug of tea.

We will be heading back to E7 next week to prep a wall ready for a mural https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/wall-mural-prep