It was GoodGym's monthly trip to Baffins for their litter pick today.

Sammy arrived frresh from parkeun with an iced coffee and some banana bread in her bag. We were then joined by Holly and Rebecca.

We decided to pick in the woods to keep in the shade as much as possible, and there was a reasonable amount of Friday night party rubbish. Best finds were a sealed pack of sweets, 2 different sized nerf arrows, tinsel and a 3d printed man who we named Robert. We even found 2 tokens from the Easter Egg hunt.

After an hour we'd collected a decent amount of rubbish and were starting to heat up so we called it a day. The team from BPA were very thankful for our help.

If you're taking part in the Lion Hunt, the Baffins one has moved and is now by the pond, visible from the BPA compound entrance.

Lovely litter pick around Baffins pond after Great Salterns Parkrun. A very cute baby coot and squirrels. Followed by playing in the play park.

The flowers are in bloom and the baby animals are out.

We had a lovely time at Baffins Pond today. Seeing the swans on their nest, proud duck parents with 7 ducklings, a moorhen with her baby, a cat keeping an eye on things and plenty of dogs looking for some fuss. My favourite were the 2 ducks sitting out by the dipping pond clearly having a moment of peace away from the kids!!

All this animal action made up for a very uplifting sight of very little litter strewn about the place. But I did continue yesterday's treasure finds with yet another hair band!

The annual Baffins Pond Easter Egg Hunt took place and was the busiest ever!

With the need of an extra 50 eggs from the shop, there was multiple re stocks of tokens needed. Samantha, Andy and Dave came from parkrun.

And we were quickly put to work. Tables needed assembling and cleaning after all the rain this year had flooded the container!

Then we were put to work weeding the area outside the hall. Bribed with hot drinks!!

Before the token hiding began as the queue had started to build.

The Easter Bunny graced us with their presence too!!

Team GG gave the woods and playpark a good litterpick this morning.

We took some time out to go and see the swans who have recently made their nest for this season. They were enjoying the morning sunshine as much as we were.

Samantha had a great find in some sunglasses to help with the glare. Sadly these ones had seen far better days!

We said our goodbyes and that we will see the pond again soon for the Easter egg hunt!

We covered plenty of ground this evening, accompanying Santa and his sleigh through the streets of Baffins.

We were also joined by Jack Skellington and Captain America, who were impressively in the Christmas spirit.