It was Blue Monday but we were all in high spirits for Ellie’s birthday celebrations and our THREE new joiners. A big welcome to Shannon, Jess and Lauren!

Dani had a short list of outside tasks which we were grateful for with the rain!

We started off moving some flooring which was much heavier than it looked and then we moved onto moving the compost heap (mostly poo) to the back of the pen! Everyone took a turn forking and Ellie was self appointed compost queen on the top of the pile. We took a break after our hard work with some time feeding the goats and sheep and meetings all the inside animals. Then a quick birthday cake celebration after the task with the most delicious vegan Victoria sponge!

A great morning marshalling at Southampton with over 1300 people... then had the joy of sorting the tokens out at the pub after.

Before 9am I'd already run 5 miles, done nursery drop off and done a litter pouch. Even better because it was bin collection day -general waste in one area and recycling in another so I didn't even have to take any of it home. Taking the rest of the day off to polish my halo....

The session went really well! Southampton Action has been buried under donations needing sorting but with the help of the volunteers we managed to sort through more than 20 boxes of donations.

The volunteers there are really friendly and committed to helping the community. Will definitely go again!

On a very cold and frosty morning of storm warnings and parkrun cancellations we were very lucky that Laura got to join for her first mission, first time at Southampton parkrun as a tailwalker and be my bring a friend for the January Challenge. It was also my first time doing the new route. It was a bit of a slippery route with ice on the ground so we were glad to be taking it steady. The main icy patches had been hammered by the course checker! We crossed the line with over 1300 other runners and volunteers ahead of us. A morning well spent!

We headed off on a very cold and icy night for a litter pick on our most can-filled alleyway. We had hoped there might be a bit less rubbish as an old building had been demolished and cleared, but clearly no one made a new year resolution not to drop litter! We didn’t quite make our previous record of 100 cans, but we think we were pretty close. Hopefully the next time we visit there might not be so many!