There was a warm welcome for us at The Bricklayers Arms, where we had convened, this time not for the start of a DIY or leafletting task, but to take part in the quiz. Despite having 6 of us on the team, none of us were even able to answer the first question, "Do you have a team name?" And by the time the question master asked us a third time and we replied, "Not Yet." He took that as our official name.

So Not Yet were poised and ready to start. Fortunate that we weren't split up this time, we were hopeful that we could, if not win, at least not come bottom.

It was a great team effort, with everyone contributing in their field of expertise, or having a jolly good guess, and if Duncan hadn't talked himself out of one of the answers (at least it wasn't me this time), and if we hadn't generously allowed the neighbouring team a point for a question they had written too answers for (surely that's cheating?) we would have beaten them by a fine margin. We were never going to come first (there were some really hot teams in the other bar) but we did ourselves proud.

Fun night out, and looking forward to the next one.

Thanks to Duncan for organising.

An alternative start point for this evening at the Wardown House museum, to cut the distance to our task down slightly. We welcomed new joiner Adam who brought the group up to seven.

Once warmed up, we headed to the Bushmead Hub where Matt from the Wildlife Trust had left us a task to sand down a couple of picnic benches in their nature garden.

With seven pairs of hands it was a quick and effective sanding job, swiftly followed by a fresh lick of paint in a shade called Willow.

We used up the can of paint, cleaned up our brushes and the drips, admired a job well done, then headed back along Old Bedford Road to a cool down stretch in Wardown Park, accompanied by the sounds of owls in the dark trees.