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!

Camden is a special place under a summer evening sky.

Jackie, John, and I met in St Pancras, where we started our evening limbering our limbs and catching up on the week past.

We worked our way northwards past Camden Market and through Kentish Town, sharing election chatter, dodging passersby, and pausing to pass a peaceful protest just south of Tufnell Park.

Arriving at the special Ingestre Community Centre, our old friend (and former Camden AA!), Pete, welcomed us with fresh blooms donated from the Chelsea Flower Show. Our new friend, Faye, arrived soon after, and we collectively got to revitalising several weed-heavy flower beds bordering the estate's roads.

I cannot tell you the names of the donated blooms. But I can tell you they looked floral. And bright. Some were colourful, others were leafy.

Across 50 minutes, we pruned, dug, planted, and watered, and these beds looked very special under a fading summer evening sky.

You check out our Instagram post from the evening here!!

Nice one, and here's to next time!!

A nice short but physical morning task in Regents Park.

We had two big ton sacks of heavy wet top soil to bag up and loaded into the van where it went to Ingestre Estate to be used in the raised beds and pots for trees left over from our earlier tree planting this year.

A good work out shovelling and lifting!

(Thanks Camden Linda for the pun...)

At the end of last year last year we planted some trees in Ingestre woods. The local TRA and the nursery recently asked us to help further by making some plaques for the existing larger trees, to label the species.

John and Caitlin, despite neither being carpentry experts, managed to create some roughly rectangular bits of wood for this purpose, from large, thin pieces of wood which were quite resistant to keeping still while being sawed.

Meanwhile, Kate and Katie set to work repairing a compost bin, the sides of which were rotting. They chose some suitable pieces of wood from a pile of discarded planks, which seemed roughly the right size, measured them carefully and sawed them down to precisely the correct width.

Using an electronic drill, the rotten planks were removed from the composter, and when they were replaced with the newly -cut wood, the compost bin resembled one put together by an expert carpenter.

That's GoodGym - you discover skills you never knew you had!