Today at the Victoria Park gardening volunteering session, we had many volunteers to work on one of the pathways out of the Park. The rain had stopped and it was quite warm. Especially after starting to rake and sweep the leaves, and cutting back the brambles and other bushes. You could definitely see the difference before and after. After filling several buckets and bags, and using the leaf blower to clear what wasn't picked up, it was back to the Greenhouse Hub for a cuppa and biscuits feeling very pleased with ourselves and the outcome.

We had our first session out for our new collaboration with Home-Start this evening, getting ready to jazz up the Family Hub gardens across the city.

Our primary task this evening was prepping the external fences for a paint job, which involved not only sanding down the wood, but removing a delightful layer of moss as well! Jane, Dave and Katie made some new friends that they discovered in the wood grain - check out Bert and Ernie in the pictures!

Judy and Jen were Team Table, sanding down and sprucing up the kids' picnic benches with a pallet of blue paints.

We also used the forces of nature to aid out prep and clean up, with a found stick becoming a marvellous paint stirrer and some soggy leaves to mop up splodges of paint from the concrete!

This was a beautiful, thoughtful show with an evocative soundtrack.

I helped welcome visitors and give them a leaflet which listed future events. Then at the end, we set up the chairs in a semi circle for the school children who are coming tomorrow. The winner of the chair-moving competition was impressive, sliding 6 in one-go! 🏆

4 lively Goodgymers helped out at the foodbank. Staking crates, packing crates and being great.

A much calmer evening today, greeting people and making sure they were OK as they enjoyed the installation.

After a while, folks began arriving for the yoga session 🕉 due to take place. After guiding them to the sign in, I then directed them to the area where they could set up their mats.

Joining the breathing sessions and marvelling at people's flexibility! I bid farewell to the sea 🌊

We collected a good variety of stamps at home and at work - aswell as domestic ones, there were stamps from Australia, Canada, America and France.

These will be bagged up and sent to the Against Breast Cancer charity.