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

I met Mrs D mother at the door and she introduced me to Mrs D’s husband as they required some support to prepare the spare bedroom for Mrs D to return from hospital. It was a big task so we all set to work sorting through items that needed to be moved to different rooms or for the rubbish pile. The time flew by so after making sure the hall was clear so all rooms could be accessed it was time for me to leave. The family kindly donated some surplus bags for life for our litter picking sessions as they had more than they needed.

Back to our friends at Southampton city farm tonight where they had an inside task for us. We were tasked with filling bags of hay to feed the goats ready for their open day this weekend and folding and stapling leaflets. We got to welcome Hannah back on a Monday night after her maternity leave, great to have you back!

Everyone dug into filling bags with hay and Chris and Helen were on crate cleaning duty to store the bags. We soon worked out that hay gets quite dusty and Wilson won the crown for most sneezes of the evening. Special mention to Ellie for most sneezes in a row. Some of us then moved onto leaflets while the rest continued with hay bagging.

After an hour of hay bagging, leaflet folding and stapling and crate cleaning and packing we were all grateful for a break for some maths where Hannah worked out we had packed 240 bags! A massive accomplishment.

Abby and I arrived early for our run but both decided we were more in the mood for a sedate litter pick around the road by Rose Road. Two bags full collected within 100 metres of the car park. We left the area looking much nicer for families arriving at the centre.