The first ultra soggy session at St Mary's Therapeutic Garden in Lewisham for ages - but we eventually moved the pile of wood chippings from the nearby Ladywell Fields to the far side of the churchyard to put a new topping on a couple of the paths. Despite, or perhaps because of the weather, we had a lovely session. They are looking forward to GoodGym going to the project on a group run in a couple of weeks.

There was a very large pile of wood chippings for Paul and the other volunteers to barrow from Ladywell Fields over the river into St Mary's churchyard. About half of it was shifted, so it will be more of the same next week.

St Mary's Therapeutic Garden is a lovely place and on Tuesdays they welcome people with a wide range of support needs. A lot of today's session was supporting and chatting to others and filling their watering cans. I also started filling one of the large water butts ahead of a hose pipe ban on Thursday along with watering the hydrangeas which were again a bit droopy.

I also had something rather sad to do - remove some chalk markings for hopscotch as the task owners don't feel it is appropriate in a place of calm. Obviously, I tried it out before washing them away.

After another hot, dry week the priority in St Mary's Therapeutic Garden was watering using the heavy, temperamental hoses. Drooping hydrangeas were most in need but achillea and echinops were watered too.

A hot afternoon at St Mary's mainly spent watering in the churchyard and sorting out the temperamental to allow the small pound to be filled with rainwater from the church roof. The shrubs watered included the bay bushes that GG planted a couple if weeks ago.

A lovely afternoon in the therapeutic garden in St Mary's churchyard making some more progress on the raised bed. Today I was excavating last year's leaf compost and layering the new bed - like a mattress for new plants.