An intrepid trio of litter pickers made short shrift of litter in their areas.

Adi was in Sydenham's Mayow Parkwhich was glorious in the mist. Paul was in Deptfor's Brookmill Park where there was a surprisingly large amount of beer cans and bottles despite the inclement weather.

Ivar returned to last week's location by the A2 in Kidbrooke. It is clearly a litter hot spot, with dog poo bags 'decorating' trees and copious amounts of litter.

It was course check for Paul at Catford parkrun this week, he forgot to sign up for the pacing ... there's always next month. He was confronted by a disturbing sight on entering a baby on the path, missing an arm - a doll that it looked as though fox cubs had played with.

For an autumnal course check, there was a lot of litter around the course but fortunately no large branches or Lime Bikes to shift!

As usual I stopped off at the Sainsbury’s by the station to get bread for the lovely Ms L, in addition to the bread, she asked me to get her some cheese slices as the Co-Op didn’t have any last week.

I was somewhat surprised then for them to still be on the list for the Co-Op; ‘I want to see whether there is any difference!’

Once back there was time to watch the tail end of Countdown together.

I’ve been helping Ms D with trying to sort out her belongings which are overwhelming her and quite literally tripping her up. She has ME and a number of other conditions and some caring responsibilities for her Dad.

Since my last visit, she has tried to do some clearing out, bagging stuff up for friends. However this had led to the kitchen, hallway and stairs being full of bags and almost impassable.

Today was about trying to make things safer for her and giving her a little space in the kitchen. She was very grateful for the support.

The photo is from my run this morning.

Talk about stepping up for the community! I took on a litter-picking mission along Woolwich Common, Academy Road and Herbert Road, putting my best foot forward to give these local streets a well-deserved tidy-up.

From one street to the next, I was picking up rubbish and making every step count. Every piece of litter collected was a little win for the neighbourhood and another reason to feel good about doing good.

One bag fuller, the streets a little cleaner, and my good-deed meter officially off the scale! Who knew picking up rubbish could be such a litter-ally rewarding experience, Innit? Till the next one. 😊

In what could be the shortest task in GG Lewisham history, we all gathered at Seniors to take down the Halloween decorations.

There were surprisingly more decorations than we had put up the week prior, either they didn't like our decorating style or they found more decorations.

I can confirm that they found more decorations as we'll be off to Senior's again next week to put the Christmas decorations up.