Mrs L's house was a stone's throw from this morning's Hanwell Hootie wrap up task, so Kash and Sevan made a return visit a week after their last mission for her. They thought they knew what to expect. Trimming, weeding, few tools and very helpful neighbours. That was mostly true today.

Mrs L did want the rest of the flower beds weeded and the trees in the garden to be trimmed. Last week, Kash and Sevan's mission was earlier in the day, so today the helpful neighbours were out. Crucially, Mrs L's loppers that the pair used a week ago were also missing in action. Neither Mrs L nor Kash could remember where they'd stored them 7 whole days ago. They weren't in the shed and they weren't in the house, so Kash made do trimming tree branches with secateurs, which wasn't ideal.

The tools Sevan used for weeding last week were borrowed from a neighbours, so today he used a tiny trowel discovered in a plant pot. Kash dug out some weeds with a large spade and most of the rest weren't too deep rooted, so the small trowel was good enough for Sevan to clear the remaining flower beds.

Near the end of the session, with Mrs L trying to track down another pair of loppers to borrow, Mrs L's pair were found in a potting cabinet. She remembered that she'd put them there because they were broken. Broken or not, they were still just usable, so Kash and Sevan paired to cut down the final branches and get 4 bags of garden waste moved to the front of the house.