Today's mission for the always friendly and chatty Mr J was the follow up to task 1 of couple of weeks ago, where I was determined to build the flat pack desk today, having run out of time (and space) last time round.

Fortunately there was sufficient floor space in front of Mr J's TV today, and the instructions were clear with no parts missing, so was just a question of following the pages and it would hopefully come together as expected - in the meantime Mr J and I discussed at great length a wide variety of topics - he from the comfort of his chair, me from various positions either under, beside or above the partially completed desk...

With the desk complete, and moved to where he wanted it, Mr J asked if I'd mind framing his final Wall of Fame guitarist picture, which I was more than happy to do - again the image required a quick trim before fitting into the frame, and once it was done, we left Mr Beck propped up ready for hanging on the wall in due course. Mr J has a few more pictures ready to be framed, so I sense another visit will be on the cards to get those done!

Tonight's task, our first visit to Wild Green E13, a volunteer led community garden in Plaistow, lived up to its name in so many ways. Our welcoming host Fleur was pleased to see us, and once she'd unlocked the container and distributed gloves and gardening tools, she pointed to a long edge of the garden, where some fruit bushes were lurking behind a lot of very green weeds and grass (and snails...), and asked us to get weeding...and so we did.

No prior skills required, and whenever we came up against some vegetation that we couldn't decide was friend or foe, Fleur got our her plant identification app to give us the go/no go signal (one was even identified as an opium poppy...which made us all wonder if there was some extra curricular horticulture going on in the garden...)

With four of us (Hilary, Graham, Bea, Nick), and Fleur on management oversight (and litter picking) duties, we had a great and very sociable evening in the fading light removing the unwanted green stuff, disturbing the habitat of far too many snails, but eventually leaving this area of garden looking much neater, and with easier access to the fruit bushes. Good work all around. We've agreed on a return visit on 16th June for more wild and green fun.