Thanks to all who came to Brook Green to help with some tidying up on the communal greens.

We raked up many of the leaves covering the ground and ripped out the weeds that had colonised the flower beds. The strangest request I had ever faced came about where someone asked us for some of the leaves that we had been collecting to use in a jewellery advert the next day. Bringing the autumn bling it seems!

Unfortunately I picked up a wee niggle in my ankle so the group run did not go ahead, however hopefully we should be back to it this week!

An evening where the weather couldn't make up its mind, ominous clouds gathered overhead as we helped water many of the fruit trees and larger bushes around the gardens which were stressed from the previous week's heat waves.

Carrying these buckets back and forth was a good weight workout, which we complimented with the art of pond maintenance, fishing out duckweed and enjoying the amphibian inhabitants.

Excitingly we've had a lockbox installed at the gardens we can access at any point so super useful for any Saturday or Tuesday evenings we have spare!