Perfect autumnal weather for running and Goodgym tonight but for me just a short walk to tonight’s task at the end of my road!

Wavertree is a nursing home with a large garden which a couple of staff members have decided to tackle and tidy up. They’ve cut back a huge amount of vegetation and our main task tonight was to bag up this waste so it can be taken to the green waste section at the recycling centre.

We welcomed Olivia for her first Goodgym experience and Jo (sister of Katharine) who’s experienced the joys of Tower Hamlets Goodgym. And it was great to see Rosie ‘taking the black’ for the first time after recently completing her 50th good deed.

We filled bags of bags with garden waste, swept up loads of leaves from the paths and dug over a bed, leaving the garden looking much tiidier.

Tonight we said ‘hello’ to Irica, Emilie & Jason joining us for the first time and also “hello’ to Wavertree House as it was the first time we’ve paid them a visit. We love having new people to welcome and we love discovering new ways we can make our city a little bit better!

This RNIB (Royal National Institute for Blind people) residential care home caters for mainly elderly people with varying degrees of visual impairment. And they have a very large garden!

Staff members Christine, Emma & Julie have spotted the potential of this large but somewhat overgrown space and have spent loads of their free time trying to tame the jungle. Having already cut back lots of overgrown shrubs and trees our main task tonight was to bag up this waste so it can be transported to the green waste section of the dump.

Other tasks included picking up litter chucked over the wall from the street and tackling the ivy which was completely covering the back wall and strangling several trees.

We got loads done, reduced the pile of waste, revealed a lovely flint wall and released some trees from the grip of ivy, but loads more to do so hopefully we will back soon.

And thanks to Davidfor tonight’s great pun!