Ran parkrun with S. Then took him for the obligatory post run Coke!

Logged it for the January numbers 🙂

"Eh-oh!" Goodgymers have lots of tubby lovers - that is, their friends and colleagues love a tub of chocolates at Xmas time!

We collected stacks of the colourful plastic tubs, for shredding and re-forming to be used "Again, again"!

"Big hug!" to Sinéad for her mountain of plastic tubs from friends and colleagues.

We switched our donations from Final Straw (who are not shredding this year) to Greene King's Tub to Pub. Some GoodGymers took a trip to the pub to drop off their tubs. The rest will be delivered on our Emsworth outing later this week.

As long as the single-use plastic gets a second-use, we're happy to say "Tubby bye-bye"!

The Hot Walls got the meticulous GG treatment: we did almost a fingertip search of the beach, from east to west, from shoreline to the Walls. Not a single piece of plastic, fishing line or bottle-top was safe from capture.

We scanned the beach until the light was too low to distinguish plastic from pebble.

So, then we went to the pub!

A lovely stroll along the new sea defences offered limited litter which was nice to see.

A very clear afternoon afforded some lovely views across the Solent. And Dave and Val climbed to the top of the round tower to have a look around.

Lost count of the amount of cigarette butt's we found after the first 100!

I wandered down to Bransbury park to meet up with the team from Pompey Pedals to see what was needed for a potential task.

Dave showed me the container and asked if we think the graffiti will be able to be cleaned. And to give the container a bit of a wipe down.

Plan is to run a test spot of removal to determine of the graffiti can go without the paint underneath being affected.

Keep your eyes peeled for some potential elbow grease tasks popping up!

Val and Judy walked a stretch of the small Ham brook, across little wooden bridges, crossing the railway tracks by looking left & right, and passing new housing developments.

We jumped into ditches and stretched to reach litter caught in brambles. After just 45 minutes, there was a full black sack, a full purple bucket and we'd collected bags for life & a bucket for use at future litter picks.

There is plenty more in tributary streams and ditches for future sessions.