In my area, the bins get collected on a Wednesday morning.

This often means that seagulls dive into the rubbish bins and recycling bags in the search of a feast, and that my street can look pretty messy on a Wednesday afternoon.

So I left my house at lunchtime to see what efforts needed to be done on the street.

It was actually pretty tidy, and even a complete plod round my most local park meant it took most of the lunch hour time to fill just one bag.

I like that stat a lot!

Today I was back in action at Cardiff junior parkrun. I had the dual responsibilities of First Timers Welcome and Timekeeper.

There were tourists from Sweden, Australia and West Yorkshire, so I was faced with a large number of first timers to welcome. You may remember from last time that I confidently told all the first timers that the course is a 'keep right' course (spoiler - it's not). Luckily, on that occasion, I was quickly corrected by a not-quite-a-first-timer. And today, I made no mistakes! I'm going to say my first timers welcome today was a complete success because we had only one adult in the finish funnel (this is a huge decrease).

I was able to verify the almost complete lack of adults in the funnel because of my second role as timekeeper. The one adult who did run in the funnel was after their junior because they didn't have a barcode (the first rule of parkrun is DFYB 'Don't Forget Your Barcode'). But, I had 'clicked' their finish place on the parkrun virtual volunteer app. The other timekeeper did not. This meant my timekeeping results would be the ones used. If you are going to forget your barcode at parkrun, you do at least have to take a token if you go through the funnel.

It was a pretty miserable day weather-wise. It was damp and raining that pathetic, lethal drizzle which makes your phone and glasses unusable, and yet isn't bad enough to warrant wearing a rainproof jacket. So rather than show you photos of a soggy biscuit Flo, please enjoy these yarn bombs made by another Cardiff run group and all round good people 'She Runs Cardiff'.