Today's Forecast Is Cloudy With A Chance Of Litter

2 Goodgymers helped an isolated person in Hackney
Sevan
Kash
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Hackney

Sunday 14th September

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"Temperatures will be in the mid-teens."

There was a lot of speculation between Kash and Sevan about what they would need litter pickers for in Miss S' front garden and how the things to be picked got there. Would there be a lot of household waste? Maybe rubbish from a nearby festival had blown in? Or something entirely different? For 2 GoodGymers to attend, there must be a mountain of junk to deal with.

Peering over Miss S' front fence ahead of the mission, it looked like someone had beaten Kash and Sevan to the clean up. Still, they knocked on the door and Miss S explained that the litter rained from above, over her upstairs neighbour's balcony and she couldn't collect it due to her bad back.

There actually were a few items of litter to be collected including soft drink bottles and crisp packets. A 5 minute job perhaps. So while Sevan litter picked, Kash did a renegade garden tidy, pulling dead plants and weeds from the flower beds and between the paving.

Thirty minutes later, the garden looked like it had had a mini refresh, which Miss S was very happy with. Ideally, her neighbours would stop dropping their litter into Miss S' garden. If they don't, there'll be more work for GoodGymers to speed clean and give Miss S some pride back in her garden.



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