Today was the first time GoodGym had been to help out at Millennium Green, but they have a good number of volunteers from the community who are down there on the regular. They were extremely well-equipped and organised with all the things needed to give the place the spit and polish it deserves.

Some people were pruning shrubs, and some weeding the paving, but Rupesh and I went straight for the grabbers and got busy litter-picking. Whilst the patrons who used the park mostly seemed to be putting their tinnies and beer bottles in the bins, there were countless bottle tops and dog ends to get up by all the seating areas, plus party balloons and plastic confetti all about - evidently a popular place for a celebration. People also seem to used the park to relax, as there were Diazepam blister packs about, and plenty of the tiny ziplocs that herbal ‘medicine’ is sold in.

The task owners are there often, so hopefully next time they’ll have a hand from GoodGym again. Apparently there are WWII bunkers on the site that are accessible, so an opportunity to have a nose about down there perhaps…