Wahooo! Gardening night. 10 of us took to the streets this evening, including first timers to Islington Anna and Fiona who fit in instantly.

Following the fastest briefing ever, we split into two teams and jogged the 3.3k up to Caxton House Community Centre where we were greeted by Sue who showed us the garden.

There were beds to turn over, ivy to cut back, plants to re-pot, bits and bobs to chop down and soil to lay. With floodlights set up and head torches and faces beaming we got going for a good 30 minutes. While working up a sweat we debated this week's pressing question. What is the best flower?

• Enya: White Rose. She's always liked them
• Gina: Daffodils. They signal the end of winter
• Anna: Dahlia. Because of their symmetry. Oh yeah, they do look nice!
• Fiona: Weeds (what‽) because they are plentiful.
• Steve: Carnations. They're nice.
• Simon: Sunflowers. He grew some as a kid and was astounded by their height
• Sue: LEAST favourite flower is a lily. People have them at weddings, but they don't seem right. And they brush off and ruin the lovely dresses. They're also poisonous to kittehs
• Julia: a fan of daisies the friendliest flower because of the film "Email For You?"
• Paul: Bluebells, because it means spring and it's beautiful and there're bunnies everywhere
• Charlotte: Daffodils. Because they're Welsh and she can't remember her real favourite flower

So, daffodils had two votes, but the best answer came from Dave: self-raising. Ha ha ha!

Beds turned, things chopped, floor swept and bags full and left by the compost heap we stopped for a quick biscuit (Custard Creams and Fox's Jam 'n' Cream today) and group photo before thanking Sue for her time and heading outside (what? we were already outside. We headed away, I mean). We spent a minute or so working on a nice driving arm technique / elbowing each other before a quick sprint down the hill and splitting back up into two groups for the run back.

A gentle stretch while discussing Simon's cat and Simon's cat (it all got very confusing) and Dog Judo and we were all done.

See you on Saturday for our Starter Session and next Monday for some cupcaking stuff

Simon