It was Election Eve and all was well.

Camden was aflutter with the sounds of sharpening pencils, ballot-snipping scissors, and huge printers used just once every half-decade to print the 'POLLING STATION' font.

And amidst these sounds of democracy, a group in red was making its gentle way up through Camden and towards Tufnell Park.

Our wonderful regular group of Jackie, John, and Steve had welcomed the equally wonderful Emilie, and we were sharing stories of work, life, and politics as we cut our way through the evening hubbub.

Arriving at the special communal garden areas at Ingestre Community Centre, we were met by the brilliant Emily, Pete, and Sarah, and (under Pete's expert tutelage) we quickly split into Team Cutting-All-Weeds-Completely-Back, Team Water-Dry-Ground-Until-It-FINALLY-Accepts-The-Water, and Team Litter-Pick-Pick.

It was wonderful seeing how much work we can do in 40 minutes when we do it together, and our tasks simply slipped away to being completed.

Thank you, everyone, for a lovely evening, and I really appreciate your work!!

See you soon!

In Sir Kier Starmer's constituency, the day before the election, we laboured away to steer our hoes into the cracks between paving stones, to clear the path of weeds and make the community garden look a lot calmer.

Some things have great names.

Like Cadbury's Marvellous Creations Jelly Popping Chocolate Candy Bar... and Bruce Bogtrotter's Favourite Fudgey Chocolate Cake... and Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland, Bartholomew Cubbins, and... (breathe out)

...and, of course, Camden's very own Story Garden - the magical space of green and colour sat to the side of the British Library!!

Our merry group of sun seekers met in the cool of the Francis Crick Institute's shadows, and we welcomed newcomers Deniz and Sharon (welcome, both!) before warming up with a hotly contested game of 'count to 25'!

Our task this week reflected community in action - the Story Garden have been supporting a local social housing block to bring some sustainable nature into their midst - and they're in the process of planting 18 rooftop planters to establish a skyline forest for the residents to enjoy - it's a special project and we're so pleased to help.

Arriving at the Story Garden, we were met by the warmth and ebullience of Linda, our Story Garden Community Maker Extraordinaire, and the took us to a carefully prepared table of dips and fresh bites - thank you, Linda, for making us feel so welcome and appreciated!

We were shifting this week. Shifting a mini mountain of bags of soil and materials, ready for the planting to begin. So we loaded our trailer, filled our wheelbarrows, and started our caravan of garden moving through a sun speckled Camden. Arriving at the site, we navigated (commandeered...) the lift and dropped our load onto the terrace that will soon become a forest.

And... rinse and repeat for round 2 of our shifting!

Which led us to nearly 8pm and our evening ending - thank you, everyone, for your wonderful company and work - we will be back to help Linda and the team soon!!

Welcome Mohammad to his first ever GoodGym task! Unfortunately I didn't check the photo that Castlehaven Phil thought he'd taken of the three of us at the end - there was no trace of it on my camera!

Using the shady parts of the sunshine-drenched garden, we'd removed some unwanted green shoots, which were threatening to use nutrients needed by the thriving vegetables growing in Elm Haven, the community garden set up by Castlehaven Community Association.