With a longer run this week, the group gathered earlier than normal at Glass Mill ready to tackle the hilly route to Baring Road Allotments. This was a brand new task for us, the team are trying to being abandoned allotment sites back to life and create a community garden.

Our task for the eve was to cut back the brambles and cut down the bamboo which will be used for bamboo canes in the community garden.

Everyone got stuck into their task and it wasn't long before that space was looking clearer but another space was full of bamboo that needed trimming down.

It was all hands on deck to carry the bamboo to another part of the garden!

Happy Birthday to Louise who was continuing her streak of volunteering on her birthday which started at a GG task and also congrats to Kerry who completed her 100th good deed - amazing achievement!!

Thank you to Paul for leading the group to and from the task! And Oli for the punspiration!

We haven't been to Senior's for a couple of months and it was good to be back ticking off the tasks that they're unable to do themselves - we're always happy to do what we can to make things a little easier for them.

The group tackled all those hills with ease and we were at Senior's before we knew it! Alice and Val guided us through the tasks for the evening and we set off in our little groups.

Marta had the task of carefully digging up the mint for Jenny and Lindsay to plant in pots for an upcoming plant sale.

Louise and Joseph tackled building the arch which had a suitably helpful set of instructions which more resembled a puzzle.

Oli went back and forth with the wheelbarrow filled with watering cans and buckets of water and also a full wheelbarrow of water with the end goal of filling the water butts.

Julian had the task of removing the sticky willy (also known by its proper name of cleavers) from around the garden. Many buckets were filled of the pesky weed.

After we ticked everything off it was time to head back to Glass Mill.

First task of the evening involved everyone! We had to move three water tanks to the other side of the garden. World's strongest GoodGymer (Ivar) moved one on his own and then the other two needed everyone, not that they had a metal frame and water in or anything!

Next on the list was moving some wooden pallets and then moving part of the compost pile onto them. And then the final task was digging and an area where the 100 sunflowers are going to be planted. We can't wait to see how great that looks later in the year.

After a quick tidy up of tools and a group photo it was time to head back to Glass Mill.

In an exact repeat of last weeks tasks except for the change in GoodGymer's as we had Marta, Julian and Steve back in the team, we headed up the hill to Florence Green.

The task was again to remove the weeds from between the hedges (that we planted!!) and leave anything that looked like a wildflower. And then bag up the weeds that couldn't fit in the compost bins.

It was amazing to see the difference that we have made. We have given the hedges the best chance of survival, eventually they'll be big enough to fend of those weeds themselves.

Next week we are heading to Ladywell Fields to shift some woodchip.