Spent a productive morning with the Friends of John Innes Park, tackling the encroaching alkanet and clearing the beds off other weeds.

Claire and I joined a team to help in the community garden. We pruned, weeded, watered and moved a raspberry bush! It was wonderful to see things start to bloom and grow.

A quick collection of surplus food from The Open Table created some storage space and it was a short distance to drop at the Community Fridge which will make good use of it at the next distribution.

We rounded off 8 weeks of support with one final push, vacuuming the hall and arranging chairs to leave the space spotless. It’s been great to be involved in such an important cause and we are proud to have seen it through to the very last seat.

We were once again delighted to help our good friends at the Open Table set up the community cafe and get ready for 30 plus diners. And for the third week in a row we were offered a bit of brekky. It was a tough job, but we got through it.

Little Ark came to our rescue, and we were able to come to theirs as they needed our help to make bags for carrying liquids. So it was that the GoodGymers found themselves cleaning waterproof banners, and using templates to cut lengths of waterproof fabric from an erstwhile banner, all ready for stitching. Knowing our limitations, that step was left for the professionals.