Despite the relentless rain, our team brought festive cheer to the Solent Mind Elf Run, supporting a fantastic cause for mental health. Helen and Wilson kept runners on track as route marshals, while Steph greeted and assisted participants at the start. We jingled bells, wore elf hats, and cheered runners around the course— soaked but smiling. The Grinch led the way and we managed to get a photo with him before he set off. Wilson helped pack down at the end. A wet and wonderful morning for a great charity!

We were very excited today to be invited to help the big man himself spreading cheer and giving out gifts to children and young people visiting the Rose Road Christmas Fair. We welcomed Barbara for their first task. Great to meet you Barbara - we can't promise we'll have such great outfits next time we see you! Derek was our lead money maker manning the grotto entrance while the rest of us were on greeting and present passing duties. It was lovely to see everyone having such a great time. Lucy was also tasked with keeping Santa jolly with cake and coffee. Next year we know we've got to get him the cake quicker! We all managed to have a wander round the stalls too and got quite lucky on the bottle tombola, but no luck on the raffle!

We set off on a very windy and slightly damp evening in search of Christmas light displays to warm our souls. Unfortunately we might have been a little bit too early for our annual Christmas light walk as not many of the houses seemed to have their displays up yet. We completed our litter pick on the way back and didn’t even find too much litter either. We were joined by special guest, Blue, who made sure we did a thorough job searching out as much litter as we could!

Such a lovely morning with FoSOC, of which I am now a member lol Great bunch of people, Great bunch of people...my arms are killing me but we moved out a lot of brambles!

I had a great time helping out at the local infant school Christmas Fete - I got to run the cake stall! But really i wanted to join in as so many great games and prizes to be won. I wanted to guess the name and win the mahoosive CapyBara. I helped to pack away after too - shifting boxes and packing away.

Barcode scanning at a rather wet Southampton parkrun today.