… choosing to water a community garden on Friday night! 😁

A quick session to water plants after a scorcher of a day. It was a lovely evening with a bit of a cool breeze!

Job done and plants can survive until the next watering ✅

Great Sunday morning effort to water all 15 (or so) planters at the Hainault station community garden!

Four of us met up at our GG base at Wanstead House where they’d asked us if we could help out with tidying the grounds. We had a little welcome chat with our newest member Daniel who was already well read on the GG ethos and eager to get going. Peter had got together some handy tools so, with a leaf blower, garden vacuum, shovels, bins and brooms we set to work. James and Linda took to the power tools Daniel and Peter had to rough it with the manual ones and pretty soon between us we had got the carpark and paths cleared of debris. Our newbie worked with energy and enthusiasm, nice one Daniel a very welcome addition to the group, hope to see you again soon. Popping in the office, to drop off some lost property we’d found, the task owner expressed profuse thanks for the work we’d done. Too hot and bothered for a run we took a short cool down walk round Wanstead before setting off for home.

Spent an hour watering the planters at the station, they were quite dry already and we are having some HOT days and lots of sun, so it needed to be done!

It was shady, with a nice breeze and not too many people so quite a pleasant hour, though my shoulders and arms were feeling it by the end lifting the watering cans. Managed to fill 5 reservoirs as well, need to come back tomorrow again.

Husband and Wife team Eddie and Linda were the only two official GGrs signed up for Frenford FoodBank today but our Kathryn sent her Mum along in her stead and she was a great help. The three of us together with other Friends of Frenford soon sorted out over 50 food parcels for local people.

attempt #3 - something seems against me writing this!

Last week when out & about with the Wanstead Comunity Gardeners we noticed that the plots between the George & the station could do with some attention - so much litter.

So we set off from base and made our way to the George, clearing the different plots of (most of) the rubbish, finishing off checking out the planters around the station as well.

3 bags dropped at the bin for the Council to collect, it was time to drop off the kit and make our way to Leytonstone for the little social gathering there.

P.S.... yes, there was a birthday to celebrate, even a little cake, but being modest (and camera shy?) etc we didn't end up singing & pictures etc.

next time - Wanstead Community House can do with a little tidy up