My route to Feed the Hill passed through a park where there are several men living in tents - I had a quick chat with a couple of them about the food bank which allows self referrals.

I was still relatively early to Feed the Hill where there was already a long queue of parked shopping trolleys. The ‘shop’ for the lovely Ms L was quite straightforward,

Ms L and I had quite a long chat afterwards - it seemed to be the anniversary of the death of her younger sister which she wanted to talk about, so we did. She seemed very grateful for both elements of the visit.

I was off work at the start of a ten day break having already packed for my holiday i thought what more did i want to do than get out into that gorgeous green space in the sunshine.

Maria gave me the task of maintaining a clearing in a woodland space. I find it very relaxing - I noticed the sound of birds singing, bees buzzing, and saw beautiful butterflies.🐦‍⬛🐝🦋 Eventually this will be another space for events and education.

A brilliant way to start my time off - possibly more sun in Catford than my holiday destination!

It was the first group run since the clocks changed and we were looking forward to a group run in daylight. And I was mostly looking forward to not taking dark blurry photos!

It was time for one of our regular group runs to The Albany but first we had to take a detour to see the teenage herons. It has been hit and miss recently on the amount of litter in the garden and with the grass getting longer it provided a good hiding place for the litter.

Not to be deterred and without Vic's extending litter picker, we still managed to half fill some gigantic bin bags. If they'd have been normal sized bin bags then I think we would have filled them.

It was time to say our goodbyes and head to The Brookmill for our social.

Mountsfield Park was glorious in the sun and for once there wasn't too much litter to pick up and I had some help from a lovely group of dogwalkers moving twigs and branches in the woodland at the bottom of the course. In the end a friend and I doubled up finishing off set up and litter picking the top field together.

The usual Lewisham duo of Adi and Paul litter picked in different locations and different times in the borough. Adi was (presumably) in Mayow Park in Sydenham, Paul in Deptford's Brookmill Park whilst watching the young herons in trees above - they were joined by a distant cousin, an egret for a while. Foxes, coots, moorhen, mallards with lots of parakeets. Half a black bag's worth of rubbish was collected.

Another volunteer one get one free offer for the lovely Mr J - a trip to his GP’s surgery to get a form for him, followed by a trip up Deptford High Street to get the week’s shopping in, there was lots of the latter but it was all quite straightforward.