We had our first session out for our new collaboration with Home-Start this evening, getting ready to jazz up the Family Hub gardens across the city.

Our primary task this evening was prepping the external fences for a paint job, which involved not only sanding down the wood, but removing a delightful layer of moss as well! Jane, Dave and Katie made some new friends that they discovered in the wood grain - check out Bert and Ernie in the pictures!

Judy and Jen were Team Table, sanding down and sprucing up the kids' picnic benches with a pallet of blue paints.

We also used the forces of nature to aid out prep and clean up, with a found stick becoming a marvellous paint stirrer and some soggy leaves to mop up splodges of paint from the concrete!

Today we litter-picked in two shifts:

Shift 1 was Katie CR, Louisa & Judy - successfully clearing litter from Car Park 2 at Farlington Marshes.

Shift 2 was Yvonne, Judy and new GG member Lisa . Lisa has previously joined us for a beach clean, but this was her first official task, already wearing the GG t shirt (give her a cheer!) We cleared Car Park 1.

Result: some thank-yous from Sunday walkers, and 2 bags & a purple bucket of recycling, as well as several huge bags of rubbish.

Well done, shift workers!