One goodgymer joined 5 Friends of Milton Common volunteers and the Countrside Officer to do a mega litterpick!

In just 3 hours we cleared a stretch of Milton Common and filled 15 bin bags with litter and fly tipping including a TV, 2 signs, a witches hat, a fire extinguisher, a bench, a trolley and 16 shoes!

We also had the time to identify 4 species of butterflies and 6 birds.

The birds were singing and the butterflies fluttering - Baffins is looking great. Glad to say there wasn't much litter this morning.

its amazing how much litter two goodgymers can find in just 30 minutes!

Two bin bags were filled, plus half a burnt traffic cone and a broken child's scooter picked up.

A gentle run to in the heat to water recently planted sapplings for the tree wardens of Portsmouth.

What a gorgeous evening and a beautiful location for tonight's task! The sun was shining whilst our tasks were in the shade of the trees at the People's Memorial.

Brenda had prepared two benches for us to paint, but within the hour we had managed to paint those, prep and paint two more, and weed the memorial garden too!

There were only a few whoopsies of people putting their hands or arms in wet paint, which considering Dave and Andy started painting the bench top before the struts was pretty impressive!

A gardening mission which didn't need a lot of actual gardening - just clearing bindweed, a few brambles and some tall grasses growing in the wrong places. We picked up stray litter, brushed up dry leaves and left it all looking neater than we found it. Job done in under an hour.