An early start this morning, I woke up to a beautiful blue sky and lots of sunshine!

I went to the station to meet a friend, and we got the train to Bedhampton for our good deed of today. We were volunteering through a company programme to plant trees in some allotments.

I'd never really planted any trees before, nor had many of the others, so we started with a quick training session and a lesson on what to do. After all the rain, the ground was very soggy and muddy, which might have helped if it hadn't been for all the bricks and concrete hiding in it...

Still, between us we managed to plant a lot of trees and a hedge in about two hours. I really enjoyed the morning! We were so lucky with the weather! The people were nice and I learned something new that I would probably never have learned ever... And it makes up for some of the printing we do in the office...

Some of the digging and removing bricks was hard work too, and I walked for miles today, so it counts as a workout too. I've earned my Advent chocolate today... Yummy!