We had a great bank holiday get together to celebrate all things GG Portsmouth in the past 5 years.

Thanks to all who attended and a huge thank you to everyone who organised and contributed to my gifts, it was very unexpected but much appreciated. GG Portsmouth are the best!

We made it in time (!) and got through to the back garden where we were faced with lots of huge dandelions, weeds covering the path and a willow that had gone beyond weeping and was starting to veer into triffid territory!

We were very pleased to see that Jen's work on the buddleia a few years ago was work done well and there were no signs of it returning!

Katie London did some excellent (and maybe health & safety breaking) compacting of the branches in the brown bin.

Angela made good use of Jo's folding branch saw and took down lots of the willow branches.

Rosie identified the plants vs weeds and Wilson worked so hard that she wore a hole in her glove.

An hour's work and we'd made a huge difference to the garden, it looks much more inviting and hopefully it'll be well used by the clients of PARCS.

Milestones: Tonight was Tony's 200th good deed and we also got to see Dave's new black t-shirt celebrating his 50th good deed last week. Tony's 200th t-shirt will be on display soon...

Community Engagement Part 2. We picked up where Jane and Wilson had left off a couple of weeks ago.

Luckily, the weather was kind and the local kids & parents came out to give their views for the community consultation (with Katie); to use the sports equipment (with Tony); and then to enjoy the free ice creams, food & drink (moi).

I had plenty of polite helpers and Tess was given lots of walks (and naughty treats), courtesy of the local children.

Supported S at Parkrun to get a personal best 👍👍

Teams, your mission is to go into local businesses and spread the word about "Along the Coast" - music, food and fun on 18th June.

Team 1 took Southsea and a run visiting Castle Road and the surrounding areas.

Team 2 took Fratton walking down to the station on one side of the road and back up on the other.

Almost all local businesses were happy to point us in the direction of the community board (who knew Wetherspoons had one?) or take some of the leaflets for the counter tops.

We reconvened back at the start location 1 minute before our agreed deadline. Great work by all.

Photos will be uploaded when the website allows...

Goodgymers came through for Sophie's Legacy running to the Community Centre to donate cereal bars, instant oats and toiletries. This will help provide parents in hospital with kids with snacks and provisions.

It wasn't a jigsaw puzzle task exactly tonight but it also kind of was!

We were tasked to put together donated shelving and a donated reception desk.

We split into 2 teams and got cracking.... Solving the mystery of how to put the shelves and desk together as we went along.

The shelving team were at a slight advantage with the all the pieces being present, the reception desk was a bit more of an enigma..... It's standing but possibly not safe!!

Great work by everyone tonight and only a couple of pinched fingers sustained too ... ✌️