The crew were back at it on Tuesday evening, ready and raring to go with our monthly task down at Thorlands.

AA Yianny met with Dan and Tilly and then set off at a very leisurely pace towards Thorlands due to ageing knees!!

On arrival we were met by returning marathon hero Michael who smashed his Newport Marathon run (see pics) and on one day rest was back at it with us helping out his community (proof that not all heroes wear capes!)

We also had our resident cyclists Marie-Noelle and Paul already tooled up and rating to get on with the task of weeding, clearing and chipping the fenced off area for future use by residents.

Other than a few Blackberry thorns all went off without incident and we learned plenty from Simon about the invasive and other species we were dealing with as we went.

Another lovely task down and we move on hoping to enjoy the weather as the nights grow warmer and a summer picnic looms... Keep your eyes peeled for that one :0)

Thanks all and see you next time!

Let's talk about last night's session back with Simon at the Thorlands project. The group was neatly divided by those meeting at Papa's fir the Group Run, those running directly to the task and thise cycling so we had all bases covered fotness wise!

AA Yianny was delighted to hear stories from GGers or holidays just taken to exotic climbs (and not AT ALL jealous...) leading to fun conversations about covonut cocktails and low cost flights on the run down to the land of Thor.

On arrival the three groups we reunited and ready to kick things off in the frosty evening air. Spirits were nevertheless high probably due to setting off while it was still light out and our tasks were clear, dig over the next section of garden 1 and collect and barrow in the woodchip to lay down preparing the next phase of this project.

The great spirit led to GGers discussing the best way to attract more members to the Lambeth community with some 'innovative' suggestions on fancy dress shall we say being floated.... Perhaps one to file under let's revisit after the next GG social?

By the end of the session all the planned work was complete, Simon was happy (and won his battle against technology!) and everyone could head home knowing another great task was in the books.

Huge thanks to all as ever and see you next time :0)

It was a biting cold evening in Lambeth, still dark by the time we met at Papa's but that won't keep our GGers away from doing good around the community.

Just Tilly and AA Yianny met for the run from Brixton over to Thorlands Gardens, while Michael ran directly to the task and Marie-Noelle and Paul cycled there - a full house of fitness and cardio right there.

Simon and the residents were impressed that the group turned out in the conditions but we are a) Barmy and b) always committed here in Lambeth so we were ready to continue the work on the middle garden with tasks to turn over the soil in the muddy patch, clear the leaf mulch for the pathway and collect and lay the fresh woodchip for those areas.

And so while Paul whistled us a tune to work to we set about the tasks and the various Snow Whites and Dwarves (I know which dwarf I am!) got stuck in 40 or so minutes later all the tools were racked away and the pathway was looking very chipper.....!

Big thanks to everyone and I look forward to seeing you next time :0)

It was our first group run to Thorlands of the year and there was 7 of us for the run (with Paul and Rosemary meeting us there). We took the same route that we took for our visit back in November.

Simon was there to meet us with the tools ready. We split off into two groups with one group clearing the leaves off the path in the Kitchen Garden to create a new pile that we covered with cardboard and a pallet to help it mulch down faster. The other group ran wheelbarrows of woodchip from the Community Garden which we then spread on the cleared path.

Simon sends thanks for our work and we’ll see him again later in Feb.

It's Tuesday and so the Lambeth crew were back at it, this week we were heading to the Thor-lands to meet Simon and get cracking on the walled garden.

Fi, Dan and AA Yianny met at Papa's and headed off to meet Marie-Noelle, Paul and Michael directly at the task. Simon was super well prepared and had a plan fully fleshed out and printed hanging from a tree for us to refer to (we could just make it out in the dark!)

The two main jobs were weeding the planting area and mulching the tonnes of fallen leaves to create lots of compost.

After handing out the sweet treats AA had to head off but the group did a great job and Simon was very satisfied with the result and so another great session is in the bag and we move on to next week at Jubilee Primary School - get signed up now! Next Tuesday's Group Run

Last night we headed back down to Thorlands Gardens to meet Simon and carry on the mammoth task of taking the work forward there.

We had a smaller group with AA Yianny meeting Ben and Tilly at Papa's and Michael making his was directly to the task. After a very pleasant conversation espousing the wonderful decade that was the 80s we set off on the 2ish km run down to Thorlands.

Simon was running a bit late so we didn't have long but with the 20 minute window available we headed over to the community garden grabbing a wheelbarrow full of tools, a few large cardboard boxes and we were ready to shovel the clay and woodchip mix onto the cardboard beds.

We split up the boxes, laid them as Simon directed then covered them over so that the foxes couldn't see the edges and destroy them and tidied some of the rubbish that we found.

Big thanks to all for the work and the great conversation and see you all next time! :0)