It rained and it poured today, despite the forecast of "light rain" from 11am. But a bit of water ain't gonna stop this crew from doing good on a saturday morning! Some of us fresher than others from our mornings of park running, time keeping, feeding a friend's cat and stopping Arthur from breaking the TV, we got to the pile of mulch awaiting us. The task is simple but hard work and we know this from having done it several times before:

Get rid of the pile of mulch.

-Stuff it in your pockets

-Chuck it in the pram

-Sell bags of it for £10 a pop

-Throw it at innocent passers by

Sadly not - it involves shoveling it into our wheelbarrows for the painstaking walk up to the top of the garden to the Forest School, tackling slippery steps, Arthur standing right in your path, and Edna insisting you stop for a cup of tea because it's too wet. If you're lucky enough to get to the top of the garden, whoever is raking the mulch out politely directs you to the perfect spot to unload your barrow and boom your load is lightened for the treacherous path back down...to do it all again, lots of times.

Well for everyone else. I had a cold, wet and unhappy two year old to get me out of the majority of it and judging from the pictures all the mulch was spread out in the Forest School by the end of the session, in time for everyone to enjoy the lovely spread Edna puts on for us all.

It's certainly a good work out and a very satisfying task, with a lot of gratitude from Tim and Edna.

Great work team. We'll be back first Saturday of each month!