This week's task was the same as much of last week's - weeding the wild flower garden trying to rid it of grassy weeds, green alkanet, and brambles.

I spent quite a lot of time at the end with a neurodivergent lad I often chat with about football. I hadn't seen him for a while and it transpired that he's struggling a bit and needs to get out, I suggested Wild Cat Wilderness in Catford and his eyes lit up - he'd forgotten about it but had been before and loved it. He's planning to go to one of the sessions there this week.

I hadn't been to St Mary's for three weeks and the seasons had properly changed, today's main task was raking leaves off the grass and using them for mulch on the perennial flower beds and to rot down for compost. Once done it was onto weeding the wild flower beds so grass doesn't take over.

It felt like a therapeutic task in the Therapeutic Garden at St Mary's in Lewisham. It was weeding one of the wild flower beds that looked wonderful in the early summer. It had become overrun by grass, green alkanet and some brambles.

Big inroads were made but only a quarter of the bed was weeded, so I know what I'll be doing next time!

it seemed so easy, in theory at least - moving a bench about a metre to enable people using St Mary's Therapeutic Garden to pit their feet on tarmac rather than muddy ground.

There were paving slabs attached which needed to be slightly buried. Trying to get everything aligned was tricky to say the least, but with a little help from friends it was all sorted out.

While I am no David Hasselhoff, I starred in Baywatch today - watering and checking on the bay bushes GoodGym planted earlier in the year in St Mary’s churchyard. I also did lots of watering in the lovely Therapeutic Garden there too.

On Monday we headed to St Mary's Church to help with various tasks, we were due to be inside the church but the bell ringers and brass band were practicing which meant we were outside tackling the mountain of woodchip whilst being serenaded by the bell ringers.

As well as shifting the woodchip, part of the group also tackling the watering of the plants and filling up the pond with rain water.

The woodchip pile was looking a bit lower than when we started and the graves had a generous amount of woochip around them. It was good to see the plants that we planted on our last visit have survived the lack of rain and looked like they were thriving!

We were then spoilt by St Mary's who always provide us with cups of tea and cakes and then it was time for the brass band to serenade us!

Next week is another shorter run to RUSS!