Cross by heart and hope to ... keep dry

Great to see lots of people arrive at Mud Dock to help clean up the Gorge today - especially when there was the prospect of a community mission with goats elsewhere!

Our host Mark had asked for some help on the Leigh Woods side today so after a brisk run around the harbourside we found our way to the little lighthouse under the Suspension Bridge and got to work.

Clearly the most important objective was to avoid becoming human flotsam in the process and its pleasing to report that we still have yet to send anyone on an unplanned swim in the Severn. With that achievement in the bag we could concentrate fully on our other objective of clearing as much litter as possible from the banks.

As usual, there was plenty of unusual stuff to be found - though possibly not quite as weird as the coffin that David found previously (a theatrical prop we hope!). However, we did find a few small toys this time - a heart, necklace, baby and mouse among them. All of which looked rather eerie after being washed up on the mud.

In 45 mins we pretty much cleared the whole space and in doing so managed to fill a couple of bags of rubbish each. In fact Mark assured me that our highly trained GoodGym hands can do in hour what 100 SAS volunteers manage in two - praise indeed!