An almost perfect a-litter-ation .... Both Adi and Paul were lucky with the weather whilst litterpicking in Lewisham parks - Adi enjoyed glorious early Saturday sun in Sydenham's Mayow Park making sure that the park was litter free; Paul had sun too on Friday morning in Deptford's Brookmill Park watching egrets, herons, coots and mallards as he litter picked alongside the River Ravensbourne.

For this week’s task we returned to one of our longstanding tasks, Alexandra Recreation Ground, and their current project to repaint the metal fence that extends around the children’s play area. Last year we helped scrape the paint off the Alexandra Road side of the fence before the park’s Friends group repainted it, and this year they’re doing the Maitland Road side.

The GoodGym group met at the Bridge House before we took the short run along the High Street, into Penge Lane and under the railway bridge, then up Parish Lane to meet Millie.

She doled out wire brushes and we got to work, scraping off old paint and lichen. 40 minutes of work got the fence looking less flakey - a great start to this round of work.

The usual Lewisham duo of Adi and Paul were making a difference in different bits of the borough. Adi was out early on Saturday in Sydenham's Mayow Park, whilst Paul picked up litter alongside the Ravensbourne in Deptford the day before.