After a thwarted attempt last week, six GoodGymers made their way through the mean streets of Portsmouth to take down flyers for Portsmouth City Council.

The Council have started using reusable cable ties for posters in the city, so to keep things GoodGym and Green, we used our session to remove them and return them to stop them being mistaken for single use plastic.

As the evening was very muggy, we enjoyed a stroll with a cheeky drink stop halfway. The barkeep who served us was fascinated by the GG shirts, so we gave her a pitch and hopefully we'll see her at a session soon!

We also enjoyed some exercise on GoodGym Portsmouth's very own Angela Chick's pavement mural in the city centre, and tried out the PLAYCE exercise space in Landport on our travels.

Judy's various attempts to say "cable ties" has certainly been one of my highlights this evening... "table pies" being my very favourite.

We have made a start on taking the Somersfest posters down around Central Portsmouth.

PCC provides reusable cable ties, so we have been collecting these back in to reduce plastic waste.

Dave and Jen headed back down to Somerstown to help with the big close-down.

After helping collapse the gazebo and load the car for Jen's work colleagues, we went back to where it all started - putting back all the chairs and tables we put out way back at 9am!

We then thought we were just about done... until we were asked to help with yet more chairs! There was an Outdoor Cinema that we somehow missed earlier, so we brought all of the orange chairs back home too!

By the time we got home we were so excited to see chairs we could actually sit on!! What a day!

After Jen finished topping up her run to a round number, we were put to work setting up the resident survey area at Somersfest. Attendees will be offered a free icecream, soft drink or tote bag for filling in surveys about the Somerstown Community Garden and the local Housing Offices, so they were expecting it to be busy!

We definitely got our GoodGym workout moving chairs from the Gibson Centre to the Community Garden - made much easier when we found two trolleys to push them through the streets of Somerstown! Jane was definitely our champion trolley dolly, with zero falls off kerbs or crashing in to anything. Dave didn't need a trolley and huffed the chairs himself - a self-declared "strong, independent woman".

We then helped Matt from the PCC garden team with putting up gazebos - a venture that resulted in Jen gaining a new pet slug. A mini rescue mission occurred to re-home the little fella out of the line of sight of local birds.

Before heading off, we helped some of the local charities to transport their stalls from where they could park to their pitch, and helped with yet more gazebos! One particularly challenging gazebo led to a slightly inappropriate photo of Jen and Dave - check out the pictures!

A very productive and sweaty morning, and Jen's work friends were extremely grateful for our help!

We had a lovely evening putting up posters for the upcoming Somersfest event, organised by PCC. Thank you Katie for sorting out collecting the posters!

We split in to three teams, depending on our energy levels and injuries to cover as many different areas as possible. Each group covered between 2 and 2.5 miles, which was an amazing effort!

There was also some excellent record keeping from Vicki, Jo and Dave to ensure we can find our posters for their removal after the event. We were also incredibly impressed with the reusable cable ties provided by the Council, which will definitely make Part 2 a simpler job!

What a beautiful day for gardening it was and today in Victoria Park, it was time to turn our attention to the rose beds. We spent time tidying up the edges with long handled shears, collecting up the excess grass for re-cycling and gullying the edges to give the beds a lovely clean surround. The roses were thriving having been given a good mushroom compost covering. There were lots of mushrooms growing, and also edible, but they were well past their sell by date, so not recommended for eating now. After a very warm session, we went to the Cafe in the Park for a welcome drink in the shade feeling very pleased with how much had been accomplished.