It was our first trip up to St Catherine’s at the top of Telegraph Hill. The task was moving some large pieces of Kentish Ragstone from a crumbling wall at the front of the church. We were greeted by Father Stanley who had large array of wheelbarrows to help us shift the stones round to the back of the church. It was one of the most physically demanding group runs that we have done for a while, but made short shrift of the rock pile. We had a break for a Kit Kat, other snacks were available, before heading back to Glass Mill. I’m sure we’ll be back to St Catherine’s soon.

We gathered outside Glass Mill this evening not wanting to get to used to the warmth inside, well that was my reasoning when I arrived first. Before we set off to RUSS, we had a moment to celebrate our achievements in the January Challenge!!

Alicia and I, set off first and nearly beat the rest of the group to the task. Steve very kindly putting the group through their paces with a warm up and run to the task.

We arrived at the task and soon found Ollie who was in charge of giving us our instructions for the evening. It a good old fashioned GG task of digging and moving the soil. The area we started before Christmas is nearly complete so it was time for us to move onto a new area of the garden. Post-task we were treated to tea and biscuits before we set off back to Glass Mill.

It was great to have Alicia along for her first group run and following on from a very muddy community mission in Blythe Hill Fields. We hope to see you again soon!

Next week, we are heading over to Senior's! Don't forget to sign up, it's an indoor task.

After a quick warm up of practicing picking up the trees and then throwing them onto the giant piles, it was time to set off to find some abandoned Christmas trees.

My group branched out a little too far and ended up separated after the first road. After searching high and low for abandoned trees it was soon time to head to out meeting point to be reunited.

Only 5 days later than last year and oh so many less trees!! We still relocated 12 Christmas trees to recycling piles at Hilly Fields. These Christmas trees will be used to make woodchip for our local parks.

It was also an evening on celebrations, it's 9 years that we've been doing good in the borough!! Happy 9th Birthday!