Yesterday morning, 8 of us gathered at Mycenae Gardens to dig up weeds, lop the low hanging trees and gather a giant bag of pine cones which will be given to some local schools. Well, those that Arthur didn't manage to scurry away in his pockets.

The gardens have recently received a grant to plant up the areas we've been weeding and they are gradually looking more tended and we'll be doing some more planting in the Autumn.

After an hour, we enjoyed a lovely bit of cake and headed off to the pleasance for a coffee.

On Wednesday we're back at St Richards.

Until next time!

Rachel

The sun was out and so were Good Gym. An amazing 8 of us turned up to help the team at Hervey Road, where Annie and Richard are working hard to build a garden behind the sports field.

We were met first by Khai who had had the presence of mind and kindness of heart to bring water for everyone, which was really helpful as it was certainly hot. Annie soon arrived and were assigned to a multitude of tasks with some of the team watering some very thirsty trees, others cutting the grass and others weeding the various beds, all the time making sure we didn't cut down or kneel on or otherwise trash any of the beautiful wild flowers growing. And what was also nice to see was that we were joined by countless bumblebees and ladybirds, showing that South East London is a wonderful hot-bed for nature.

After an hour we were all pretty much exhausted and it was time for photos before heading off to enjoy the sunshine,

Finally, I can''t finish the report without a shout out for Sarah, who had completed her 400th parkrun that morning,. This is such a brilliant achievement so well done Sarah.