Inevitably there would be potatoes and tomatoes on Mr M's list today, it was the quantity of each that I couldn't be sure of until I knocked on his door - this week 2 and 2, plus the usual supply of veg soup, and the added extra of a cucumber. Out, shopped and back with change in hand in no time!

We had a good time weeding and sweeping at Rose Bowl. Dawn was really appreciative of our work and we loved hanging out with her cute dog Teddy.

We rounded off with collapsing some cardboard boxes. A bonus bit of skateboard action at the end. Already lined up to return in a month. The floodlights were much appreciated.

Ms F's daughter loves her garden trampoline which, it being Autumn, was covered in leaves. Under the trampoline were leaves, earth, some bags, and a half-eaten shoe that had clearly been a fox's plaything. My task was to clean it all up. I was handed an eco-friendly 'African broom' and made a start.

It turns out that sweeping leaves whilst standing on a trampoline is good for the core and leg muscles.....

Once I had worked out how to unknot the skirt and get under the trampoline, it didn't take too long to clean it all up, along with the surrounding paving slabs, and leave Ms F very pleased with the result.

Chilly Thursday evening but this didnt stop VI Runners and guides to turn up in mass as Paddington Rec Track for a great session. Goodgym Brent was present in force tonight with Dennis and Ryan. Steph Ducat doing his usual thing of running and taking pictures 📸. Viv who is one of the VI Runners did a PB tonight on her 5km with Ryan : well done !!

The mission did actually have a Monty Pythonesque start - looking for Flat 10, we were surprised to find Flat 9 on the floor below Flat 7, which was itself on the floor below Flat 8......

So 'Lift' did have a number of meanings here - firstly, 'No Lift', which was why Ms M on her crutches was unable to carry a number of rubbish bags down the stairs to the bins. So we 'lifted' them down for her. And then, after dismantling a light wardrobe, we warmed down by 'weightlifting' with her son's dumbbells. Ms M is moving soon, to a block of flats with a 'lift', thank goodness.

Somehow Ms Y has spent the past however many weeks sleeping on a mattress on the slats of what used to be metal bed frame on the floor - unsurprisingly it's not been a pleasant experience, so she was very grateful when I rang her doorbell this evening ready to do some bed making.

First task was to remove the old frame, which just required the slats to be removed by forcibly ejecting the plastic brackets, and then unscrewing the frame such that the pieces were more manageable to take down the stairs.

With that done, it was open the cardboard box time and get building - previous experience definitely helped as occasionally the instructions weren't crystal clear, but fortunately nearly all the pieces were marked, and the correct number of bolts were in the packaging, along with the right sized Allen key, and step by step it came together.

Once the frame was all complete, I pulled the mattress on top and tidied up the bedding and then went downstairs to let Ms Y know that she had a new bed - the look on her face was similar to that of a small child on Christmas morning, and when she sat down on the bed for the first time (and realised she was now a good 2+ feet off the floor) she was absolutely overjoyed and couldn't thank me enough for my efforts.