James, James and I met Millie and Adi at the park, and set about brushing the flaky old paint off the last stretch of railings ready for the Friends to carry on painting this coming weekend.

With gloves and safety specs on, it's quite a satisfying task up close, watching the rusk and flakes fly off lit by torches! We did a whole long stretch of railings between the five of us, while catching up with Millie and her escapades all over the borough from bat talks to dog show announcing and planning permission for redesign and rebuild of the local clubhouse (which is shared by the bowls club, football club and park).

We started the task in daylight and finished in the dark, but were delighted to be reminded that soon it'll be time for planting sprint bulbs in both Alexandra Rec and Cator park (and doing this in the evening means less lost to squirrels :) So we'll be back soon!

Our merry band of community do-gooders, including two of the three area Jameses, met up for a bit of the change to the original plan. We always want to help with whatever's most important to the organisation we're helping.

So this time we dropped our weeding and painting tools and picked up our leaflet-delivery smiles and walking shoes.

Off we trotted around the Blenheim Arpley estate, saying hello to the residents of the blocks and letting them know their residents association can do good, help, give them a voice.

All very important with lots of development happening very close by, and very soon. And they need new members.

We delivered to almost every flat, and then dispersed into the dusk, to head home for dinner.

Thanks all and see you next time :)