Some tasks are complicated, some less so. When one Good Gymer arrived at the PNK garden they found a ton of topsoil waiting for them on top of a pallet. The task ahead was move all the bags of soil from the pallet to different locations in the garden. And so to work, a wheelbarrow was provided, and interspersed with conversations with the lovely volunteers, the bags were moved and the pile slowly shrunk. And after almost exactly an hour the pallet was empty and the soil bags were distributed and the Good Gymer was rewarded with a giant spring onion that had been grown by the teams gardeners.

Ms F loves her garden but is worried about falls and finds her patio a bit slippery after rain. I weeded, scraped off moss and scrubbed it for her so it sparkled in the sun! She was ever so pleased with the end result.

Mark had been to the task before so knew exactly what we needed to start on- we spent an hour putting together drawers and screwing in handles while chatting with Mr P about life, society and remaining positive in tough times.

A high volume, but relatively light weight shopping trip for Mr J this week - Rice Krispies replaced bottled water and sweeteners were in for soya milk.

I was a little worried that Mr R had forgotten the time as when I tapped on his window and waved at the top one (he is deaf) there was no response. I need not have worried he was just making the coffee to fuel our chat.

We chatted for a couple of hours about a wide range of subjects including Lewisham’s lost cinemas, the differences between subtitles on TV and with films, the lower reaches of the Thames and its dereliction. We had a lovely morning.

This week's group run was all about Julian and his 499 good deeds!! Whilst we're a little sad that the big 5-0-0 won't be happening in the blue borough, we're super proud of Julian being part of our team and how much good he does between here and Greenwich. He'll get stuck into every task we do and rain or shine - thank you Julian. I look forward to seeing you achieve your next milestone which is hopefully 500 this evening at Greenwich!!

This week we also had 2 newbies joined us who must have wondered what on earth I was doing when I had party hats and a tray of doughnuts. I can't promise the same every week but I can promise good deeds every week.

It was off to The Albany this week and time to tackle the litter. After ringing the ring doorbell a couple of time and no answer I thought maybe we were in for one of those weeks with no task. We did get in eventually and set to cutting back brambles and picking up the litter.

Again, there was a distinct lack of litter and my theory is that the longer grass means it's not being blown under the fence so much but also it could all be hidden within the grass and we just can't see it!

Half the group headed out to clear the surrounding streets of litter and by the end of the session we had quite a few bags of litter including a wig!

Next week, we are heading to Senior's to help in their garden with the bigger tasks such as turning the compost, digging the beds and weeding.