Tonight's task was an unusual one - attaching lovely giant poppies to lampposts in Penge, for the upcoming Remembrance Day. The poppies will actually be up from today til mid November when we have a mirror task to take them down - so a full month to have those lovely colourful flowers up as a reminder of those who gave so much.

We split into two mini-teams and each took one side of the high street, attaching poppies as we walked, from the Bridge House up to Kent House Road. It seemed like there were a lot more lampposts on one side of the road, so James and I felt a bot like we were cheating when we moved ahead of our opposite team - and crossed back at the end to add a couple and meet them on the way back. All in all once we got the hang of the cable ties, a sweet task. And someone even approached us to ask if we had a collection tin with us. Aren't people nice!

Tonight we had a short run to the Blenheim-Arpley estate in Penge to meet Jami and the other volunteers from the Residents Association. We were tasked with helping the team shift a huge woodchip pile donated by Bromley council which they needed depositing around the estate. We made great progress (even with a brief interlude while Jami calmed down some anxious residents who spotted our red t-shirts and headlamps and thought we were the Russians coming to invade!) and you can see how much we shifted by the markings on the floor in the "after" photo. Great work tonight team!

Wire we here again?

Oh yeah, to finish dismantling a big old chicken run!

We had a nice run past Penge's latest street art down to Dorset Road Allotments where we were greeted with a wheelbarrow of tools and half a chicken run left after last month's dismantling sesh!

This time in the dark, we got snipping and chopping the chicken wire off and pulling apart the wooden frame, leaving only a few bits left to do for next time.

Nice one, gang!

Last night we were in a spooky Cator Park helping to tidy up some of the bushes and paths ahead of the friends group's dog show this weekend.

After a quick dog vs cats chat in the pub, we jogged down to meet Millie in the park.

We were equipped with hoes, secateurs, shears and a wheelbarrow and worked on a couple of the big hedge sections to neaten them up and clear weeds and pine needles from the path.

It didn't take long for it to look much more presentable, and mean the paths were wider.

Nice one, gang! ✂️

Some stellar clearing of a couple of beds in Crystal Palace Park tonight, right next to our regular Water Tower Base haunt, and a similar task in a way.

Invisible Palace look after a bunch of flower beds around the park and are taking on one that is particularly overgrown. Their volunteers had made a great start and we were continuing to clear out grass, weeds, brambles, bindweed and a huge buddleia.

We got a good workout in and made a really big difference to the space.

Nice one team 💥