Today's rain cleared in time for our task last night, yay.

Learning fun facts on the way (like Mark's friend played Elton John's hands playing the piano in 'Rocketman'!) we jogged up through Crystal Palace Park, wondering of 'StonePenge' will survive the park's remodelling the next year or so.

Arriving at the museum gates we met two more Goodgymers (Megan and Anna) and David, who was showing us round.

We set about our recurring task here, first weeding with trowels and hoes, then clearing soil down as far as possible to the water tower floor.

The soil when sieved (through a now-decrepit shopping trolley) makes it to various local gardening projects. And we WILL eventually get to the floor of the water tower all the way round, ready for its makeover.

We whiled away the time a little too well, me forgetting to check my watch so we ran over a bit, so absorbed in our work and the chat about the size of spiders this year.

Thanks all for turning out and doing this fantastic job :)

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Tonight we headed up the hill for a task at the St Christopher's Hospice shop on Crystal Palace Triangle. It's a seriously well stocked shop, so much so that a few of us even ended up having a late night spree! Would recommend if you're ever in the area.

Anyway we came from all over to get to the task venue - some direct from home, some up from the Bridge House. We had a series of jobs which were executed with aplomb:

James took on the hoover for his 8th time?! Megan was pricing up some fancy crockery. Mariah was taping up some well stuffed bags so they don't split on the way to the Streatham store. Charlie and Kelsey were cleaning the shelves. Catherine and Cat were boxing up some older bric-a-brac. Jess was on steamer duty and I think that's everyone 👏👏👏

Oh yeah, the brogue. So basically there were a few single shoes, i.e. not in pairs. Me and Kelsey were like "wtf?!" but then we asked Teresa and it turns out it's all part of the plan. If there's some spenny shoes above a certain price, they keep one hidden away so they don't go walkies. Clever eh?!

Well done GG CP. I always have such a nice time hanging out with you. See you next time.

Some stellar clearing of a couple of beds in Crystal Palace Park tonight, right next to our regular Water Tower Base haunt, and a similar task in a way.

Invisible Palace look after a bunch of flower beds around the park and are taking on one that is particularly overgrown. Their volunteers had made a great start and we were continuing to clear out grass, weeds, brambles, bindweed and a huge buddleia.

We got a good workout in and made a really big difference to the space.

Nice one team 💥