Dave and I counted people coming into the Bridge Centre and gave out programmes whilst enjoying the City Band playing Christmasy-sounding pop songs.

It was a lovely atmosphere - the RSPCA's big dog danced past us and Dandelion Daniel strode by and we had time to play beach ball plus a couple of retro arcade games. 🕹

Jane and I swept up the outside area to make it look welcoming to visitors.

We placed prgrammes around the site and got a green cloth for the background of the selfie sofa that Dave then modelled for!

We also ran around the area placing markers for the dandelion trail. A couple of venues were outside of the Bridge Centre so shower dodging became a new sport!

After a fun day of activities in the heart of Fratton we had to pack everything away.

The red sofa needed to go home, which involved a couple of maneuvers through doorways! The chairs had to be stacked, in a new home! And the Pantry and Brigde Centre needed restoring to their former states.

The lanterns for the Fratton Together lantern parade in November (Look put for that task signup soon!!) were left out in an arrangement to showcase them for the upcoming workshops.

A little less dystopian future than the 1953 novel (yes, I have been down a Wikipedia rabbit hole), our task this evening took us to a very peaceful garden for a spot of weeding.

The triffids had taken over the paving, so we removed these and some other weeds between the slabs. We even had time to clear some of the stoned area, including moving a very stubborn fuschia from amongst the rocks to a much more comfortable pot.

A lovely rainbow made a brief appearance at the end of our session which felt like a little bit of a reward for a very damp task.

.... to my litter-picker!

It was a very high tide at Tipner this morning, but that's a bonus on a beach clean - less beach! It meant Lisa, Andy and I could make a visible difference and remove the obvious pieces of coloured plastic and the nylon fishing line.

Lisa dragged the dumped gaming chair to the nearest bin, so that hopefully it'll get collected.

45 minutes later, two sacks of litter collected, and then on with our Sunday plans.

We had good fun this morning, joining the Community Spotlight team for the second of their monthly litter picks at Hilsea Station.

We had to use our contortion skills to manipulate litter between the railings through to our rubbish bags. Jen enjoyed a small climbing escapade to retrieve a giant plastic screen. With the assistance of Dave, a rake was also retrieved. This was then donated to one of the other volunteers who had just the other day been thinking he needed a new rake!

We were also able to advice a young man which train he needed to get - our South Western Railways hi-vis had led to him thinking we were station staff.