Was it the potential to see trains, was it that everyone liked the sound of moving compost, was it the fact we haven't been to that task for ages? Whatever everyone's reasons, it was wonderful to have such a big group.

I left the group at Glass Mill to jump on the bus and we all reconvened at Crofton Park Railway Garden including those that were meeting us there. It was perfect timing!

We managed to fit lots of tasks for everyone to get stuck into including moving the shed which I think had been on their to do list for quite a while. Well done!

We also sorted the compost pile, swept the woodchippings back to where they belong, litter picked and watered the plants!! A lot of tasks done in 45min.

Great work team for getting stuck in and getting the tasks done.

You’ll find a lovely Parkrun with even lovelier volunteers!

Continuing my volunteering whilst my ankle heals, this week I was doing my new favourite task of timekeeping! Only 1 minor mistake made, had to get that out of the way at some point.

It was a great to bump into a familiar face of Conroy also.

In a change to normal proceedings at TRAID, this week we were hanging clothes rather than taking them down!

Jenny and Marta tackled the women's clothes, taking them out of the big cages and hanging them on the rails ready to be priced up and wheeled into the shop.

Julian and I had the same task with children's clothes but then we also got given the added responsibility of using an implement to tag the clothes of which our brains could not fathom the engineering behind it and then we got to stick the stickers on the tags!

It was a good excuse to catch up whilst doing a good deed. There's another session on Tuesday!

it was Kim's 50th parkrun volunteering which she celebrated in style by standing in the rain for an hour timing finishers with DIY rain protection for phone and injured ankle. Oli attempted to be Australian marshaling at 'Dana's Diversion' at the top of the hill. Paul flung cones and arranged arrows beforehand.