Philip and Stephanie joined Friends of Portswood Rec on a perfect sunny Saturday morning to help give the garden some pampering. We were tasked with clearing an area in a shady spot and filled a large bag full. Now the spot is ready for the local Scout group to plant some native English Bluebells which will delight everyone next year when they flower. There is always a refreshments break organised by Denise and her welcoming team of volunteers.

Lovely morning for barcode scanning at Ston parkrun. Bumped into fellow GGer Wilson, and Lauren's Mum! A busy one with 1280 runners/walkers.

We hit the bushes of Bevois Valley last night for a community litter pick. There were plenty of cans, bottles and plastic cups for us to pick. Sarah noticed lots of little glass bottles of Magnum Tonic Wine, this is a Jamaican alcoholic drink that claims to boost energy and, well… let’s just say vitality. Might explain why we found some other less savory items on our pick 😬

We filled 5 bin bags and got the thumbs up from a local taxi driver - it was a satisfying tidy up!

It’s that time of year again already!! We started Rose Road getting ready for their Christmas fair and were very busy elves packing gift bags from Santa. We got them packed very quickly and then had to do some rearranging to make sure there were the right mix of goodies in the final bags. We then had enough time to sort through the Christmas decorations and remove any broken ones and untangle the Christmas lights! And finally we sorted through items to be sold at Winchester Christmas markets by the fundraising team. As always we had lots of fun and are excited for the festivities next month when we will be back to support at the Christmas fair.

Seeing as it was a Monday Sarah had the great idea of doing a litter pick along the port shore at Getxo.... we had so much fun we decided to do another when we visited La Coruna - the amount of plastic at La Coruna was shocking. It felt good to be clearing some of it up!

We acted as super subs at Ganger Farm parkrun. Starting out with a bit of car park directing and turning the too tall vans around, and then following it up with some cheer practice distracting everyone on the back straight with our marshalling