We had a lot of fun constructing two outdoor benches/storage boxes at the Brookvale Village Hall.

These benches had been donated back in November last year after sitting in a shed for 4 years due to being quite difficult to construct.

We learned the truth of this as the first bench took us 1 hour and 15 minutes to construct, this time was spent using brute force, working out the instructions made it impossible to complete and some slight arguing over which was was forwards.

But following the lead of Tazmin and Evelyn with Charli & myself happily doing what we were told we were eventually able to complete the first one.

Then as if to make up for this we constructed the second in record time, clocking in at just over 12 minutes from start to finish.

We also couldn't have done all of this without the help of Marian from the Brookvale Village Hall who helped the construction and made us very welcome!

All in all it was a lot of fun, very rewarding and we can't wait to be back again.

We joined with the Ramblers for a walking session this week, the weather was exceptional and really clear.

It was great having Samantha & Tazmin join us at the Social Club and then Charli meet us along the way.

It was a really nice route through the War Memorial Park, around Black Dam and throug a bit of Crabtree Plantation where we saw some very cute rabbits!

When it gets a touch lighter we can extend this further into Crabtree