The mission to take the lovely Ms L's washing to the laundrette is a simple one - walk past the laundrette to her flat, have a chat about how life has been in the three weeks since we last saw each other, walk back to the laundrette with the washing (unleashing my inner Daniel Day Lewis), give it to the laundrette manager (who looks nothing like Omar from the film) , take a receipt which usually says 'service wash Paul' and go back home. There was an added element today, putting together a mop a friend had left for Ms L which she had been unable - after a lot of fiddling we managed it get the cloth bit attached to the handle.

Lots of litter picking around Lewisham over the last few days. Adi was busy in Sydenham’s Mayow Park, it was grey and dull (but had been stunning earlier in the week!)

Linda had been working hard nearby focusing on the area around her Lower Sydenham home. She recycled lots of cardboard and dealt with abandoned e bikes.

Louise saw lots of snails as she litter picked around a community garden at Valeswood Road on the Downham estate, sorting out a fallen sign whilst she was at it!

Paul was in Deptford’s Brookmill Park where along the River Ravensbourne there was lots of litter from flooding but had the benefit of watching lots of wildlife as he cleared the rubbish.

On course check today, despite it being the end of February there were still abandoned Christmas trees to move on the course. There were logs across one of the puddles which I sadly had to move too. Some litter picking done too.

Periodically the lovely Ms Y asks me to check whether Garibaldi is back at the Co-Op, I always get confused between the Italian Revolutionary, Guiseppe, and the eponymous ‘squashed fly’ biscuits which for a while were manufactured midway on the route between where we live at Chiltonian Biscuits (now an industrial estate.

Neither were to be seen, although I may not have looked hard enough. I did offer her Bourbon biscuits but she didn’t want those - I guess because Garibaldi defeated a Bourbon army in Sicily in 1860 and she didn’t want biscuits that were second best. I could be wrong of course.

As for the rest of the shop, it was a a selection of the standard items on her list.

The first part of today’s mission was to get some new transport for Mr J; I’d checked the “showroom” last week and given the lovely Mr J details of sizes, colours and prices. So a new black shopping trolley was bought from one of the houseware shops I regularly use for him.

As for filling it up, it was all quite straightforward apart from a lack of sardines in ASDA, but Tesco came up trumps. There was even time to adjust his solar panel powered lamp in the garden.

Ms D has so many nice things growing in her garden pots, we did some rearranging and clearing so she can access them better, enjoy her garden furniture and access the side gate more easily!