first job was to see if I could continue from last week and remove a tree root, i could not, might need less spade and more lopers or an axe.

Moving on, 2 others plus myself got on the task of shifting bark to the path, which we continued to 12:30, where we called it a day.

When we got the call from Transition Ilford asking us to assist with moving some wood chip we didn't think we could help but the last minute cancellation of the GGR "Tour De Waltham Forest" training session meant that James was suddenly free and Linda didn't mind a "Tour De Gants Hill" so off we cycled to Valentines Park.

On arrival we were shown that we needed to pull the logs out from within the wood chip pile and use them to create edges to a new path, lay cardboard down as a base for the path and then move the wood chip to make the path. It was a lot of work, luckily there were a few members of the community there as well as the task owner Rakesh and we were soon working together as one team.

The path was looking good in the end but its barely made a dent in the chipping pile. A repeat mission may be required.

What a lovely day for a spot of shoveling woodchip in Valentine's Park!

This mission consisted of 3 tasks: * Break cardboard up and put in on the path * Move bark from one area to get it on to the path * Finally move logs to either go along the path or around the social area.

As there were 5 of us, we split into two teams, one filling up the wheelbarrow with bark while the other team distributed it along the path, whilst the team filling the wheel barrow with bark the other team broke up some cardboard and laid it across the path.

Once all the bark and cardboard was placed, the logs got pulled into position - this did result in some serious nettle stinging when we pulled out the logs from their 'hidden' park position, some got put into place with the wheelbarrow and the rest with our own strength grrrrr.