It was back to Walter Halls School for Leah, Khiltee, Natalie and Peter to help out in their wonderful garden.

It's always a good one when we're here and Adele always manages to find us a wide range of interesting and varied tasks. This week, Perspex sheets needed shifting, weeds needed lifting, the banks of the pond needed raising and a pick axe was (again) wielded!

So, it was gloves on and (already short) sleeves rolled up as sand bags were filled and tucked neatly under the pond liner. Big rocks were then placed on top This should allow a higher water level so the school can get the wildlife the pupils keeps asking for in there.

Congratulations to Peter on achieving 50 good deeds and black t-shirt status!

We were back at Windmill Community Gardens again this week for another session.

The already expansive Gardens have grown again with the adoption of a new, wildly overgrown plot, and our host Lucy gave us a tour to start things off.

There were a few jobs to do in anticipation of their Art in the Garden event this weekend (pop along if you can!) so we quickly split up into a few groups to get as much as we could done in the time we had.

Peter started off clearing some rubbish left over from the shed removal, including a particularly foul-smelling bucket (kudos for your strong stomach, my friend!). Once that was up in the skip, he joined Leah, Nigel and brand-new GoodGymers Khiltee and Dina (Welcome!) in clearing weeds and overgrown foliage from the new children's area. Hazards included ants and other bugs and some particularly prickly bushes with very deep roots.

Rosemarie and Dayna had arguably the toughest task of lugging woodchip from the pile at the entrance right the way down to the bottom of the gardens to cover the pathways that had rotted down or become overgrown. Nigel and Khiltee also grabbed some buckets to cover the floor of the teepee and the old shed foundations.

We ended the session munching on some delicious, freshly-picked fruit!