Just a very quick drop-off today, not much of a chat, but Mrs H is well.

Makespace is a gorgeous community building on the banks of the river, a stones throw from Port Meadow. It houses artists, a very thriving book and plant swap cupboard, and the famed Library of Things.

We pop there annually to give their outside space a spruce and tidy and tonight was no different.

Fourteen Goodgymers made light work of weeding the paving slabs, cutting back brambles to reveal roses, honeysuckle and budlia, and de-mossing the entrance. Ben even got to use a strimmer to attack the ling grass but declared it "a young mans game"..........

A little trio of us then had a delightful jog across Port Meadow - spotting The Medley and reminiscing about the evening we spent there eating pizza in torrential rain!!

Thank you everyone and special well done to Megan on her 50th good deed!!

Unfortunately Mrs H had already read both of the books I brought last time! Fingers crossed that doesn't happen again! She is feeling well and glad the weather is cooler today.

Just a quick drop-off today as Mrs H was on her way out. I hope she enjoys the books!

Third time's the charm at the Bayard's Hill Primary School new vegetable garden.

On previous visits we've weeded the 7 raised beds installed last year, as well as the pile of top soil which will fill those spaces. This time everything just needed a light weeding then we could get the going with topping up the soil in the raised beds. Forming a production line of soil shovellers, bucket carriers and raised bed levellers, we got every raised bed filled with soil and ready for seeds.

A great effort from everyone, particularly on such a warm day.

Thanks to Anna for the wing-themed refreshments ;-)

Mrs H was in good spirits and enjoying the warmer weather. We chatted about how the pool at Harcourt Hill campus is closing. She enjoyed the books and requested more Sheila O'Flanagan. I'm not sure how soon libraries get new releases, but I will see if I can get hold of Sheila O'Flanagan's new book (just out this month) as soon as it's available in the library.

Today Mrs H solved a mystery! Not long after I had dropped off the last lot of books, she had been in touch to say that a couple of library books had been left on her doorstep, and had I left them there? She said they were ones that she had read very recently, and told me the titles. I was confused, and checked in her library account to see whether they were still taken out, which they weren't. Curiouser and curiouser. Neither of us could work out what had happened, as every time I had visited I had dropped off 2 books and picked up 2 books, so how had these mystery books appeared?? I said I would visit today as usual and pick them up to take them back to the library, even as the mystery remained unsolved.

At the door Mrs H told me that on Thursday she had been to the senior citizens' lunch in Botley and a lady there asked her "Did you get the books I dropped off?" It turns out she thought Mrs H might enjoy them and had dropped them round on a whim. It was pure coincidence that they were the same books I had also delivered a couple of months ago!

I'm glad the mystery is solved, and also nice confirmation that I am choosing the type of books Mrs H enjoys :)