A smaller group of Lewisham GG-ers met at Glass Mill and started the journey to The Albany where I met them. Due to my slightly late arrival they were patiently waiting for me and we found there was going to be a change of task.

We're a flexible bunch and we switched straight to the new task of litter picking and spread out into even smaller groups to cover the entire garden.

We found a variety of items including some jazzy litter and a bike wheel! Otherwise it was slim pickings and it wasn't long before it was job done and we were heading to the social.

Next week we'll be heading back to The Albany to complete the original task of moving some rubble.

Probably the best organised skip filling ever! Since the project was completed a couple of years ago, RUSS have accumulated a lot of rubbish that they needed to get rid via a skip. They also needed people who skip and do heavy lifting, there was only one team who could help - GoodGym Lewisham!

First, in went a large quantity of unusable wood. Then, what seemed like, several thousand plastic plant pots were put into columns. Some people - Oli and Steve, excelled at this, some people have poor at spatial relationships and were less good - yes that’s you Paul. The flower pots were placed at the bottom and then the skip and a couple of dozen bags of builders’ rubble more or less filled it.

Meanwhile, Lindsay and Julian bagged up copious quantities of well rotted compost.

Tea and biscuits wrapped things up at the end of an excellent evening.

RUSS is a volunteer-led Community Land Trust dedicated to providing homes that remain affordable in perpetuity. There is more about them here. https://www.theruss.org