Three of us enjoyed the late summer sunshine and stretched our legs while working at home! Vanessa made friends with lots of spiders while searching for litter in the bushes! One big bag of litter collected!

Five GoodGymers joined a total of 34 volunteers who joined forces to help out the wonderful Share Portsmouth to move the contents of the library of things / repair cafe. This was all within the Cascades and involved moving over 600 items from one unit to another. Items included DIY gear, kitchen items, suitcases, cider-making equipment and more, all helped by wheelbarrows, trolleys and people power!

With so many people, set in three well organised groups, we moved all the items in around 45 mins. We will be back again next week for the group task to help them with the last bits in the old unit!

The weather was incredibly kind to us this lunch time, and we were able to make real headway with the task at hand. We started off with some good old fashioned sanding to prep the surfaces, then spent the rest of our time getting the lovely blue gloss on as many surfaces as possible. Some of the previous emulsion had made its way on to glass of the windows, so we cracked out the white spirit to get things neatened up. We'll be heading back in a few weeks to finish the job, so keep your eyes peeled for the next listing!

It felt very sad to be heading home from tonight's task in the dark - winter evenings are coming! We made the most of the fading light with a stupendous effort clearing the pathways at the back of the Synagogue - check out Laura's before and after photos!

There were lots of cries of "OW!" as brambles fought back, and "OH NO"s as unwitting snails met unfortunate ends whilst we were working hard.

We were very lucky - the sun shone and the showers held off for our lunchtime litterpick!

In half an hour we made a big difference to this little empty space and filled up 2 big bags.