The 3 of us met at Brunswick in the sunshine. We were met by Mike who showed us what to do, namely digging compost out of one of their very large compost containers and putting it around the bases of some fruit trees. Fortunately, we were digging out of the compost container next to the one we'd dug out before (which had lots of woodlice) and we didn't see woodlice today. We soon had a good system where 1 of us shovelled the compost and the other 2 were wheelbarrowing and distributing the compost around the fruit trees. After just over an hour we had covered the bases of 5 of the fruit trees, about 50 barrow loads in total. Mike was very grateful for our help as the compost needs to be cleared out for a large delivery of manure (don't fancy shovelling that!).

Five of us helped Brunswick to clear one of their compost heaps this morning. Laura and Ste had to start on top of the heap to take off the plants, fruit and sticks that hadn't composted. They quickly discovered that they were standing in heap full of thousands of woodlice. Leanne, Barbara and Lindsay fetched barrows to transport the ripe compost. We then took it in turns to dig and barrow the compost onto the beds. The birds were thrilled about the woodlice and came quite close to us when we were emptying the barrows. The task went much quicker when we had shovels and spades instead of forks (Lindsay helpfully explained the difference between a shovel and a spade.)

It was a very, very hot and muggy morning to be doing heavy work. Some of the nursery car park had been resurfaced and the staff wanted to reuse the old bits of car park surface as foundation for hardstanding for a marquee. Myself and Leanne shovelled a decent sized pile of rubble and lumps of old Tarmac into what I can only describe as a cross between a wheelbarrow and a mini JCB. Luckily we weren't expected to try and 'drive' it as it looked very difficult and you could easily run yourself over with it, so we left that to Dougie who was showing us what needed doing. We also filled two wheelbarrows in between whilst Dougie took his 'bionic barrow' down to where the hardcore was needed. At least Leanne and I were working in the shade, although you wouldn't know it from the amount of sweat we produced - you know it's hot when the sweat is dripping into your eyes! After about an hour we called it a day (before we completely melted) but we had made our way through about 3/4 of the pile, so we rewarded ourselves with some ice cream before biking home.

Four of us GG Yorkies returned to Brunswick Organic Nursery for another round of log stacking. We waited for the rain to subside but it didn't so we went out and got started anyway (being the hardy souls that we are).

First we had to remove some of the last logs from the store into net bags before we could start to stack the new logs. Working in pairs, we started to pass across the new logs to our partner (Egg and Lucy, me and John) before realising that the cage had wheels and we could move it closer! As we got down the pile in the cage, it became harder to reach in to retrieve the logs so Lucy bravely offered to get into the cage so she could pass them, double quick, into our waiting hands. After about half an hour we had all the logs neatly stacked (well we though so anyway) and we were rewarded with a hot drink indoors in the warm and out of the rain.