What a gorgeous evening and a beautiful location for tonight's task! The sun was shining whilst our tasks were in the shade of the trees at the People's Memorial.

Brenda had prepared two benches for us to paint, but within the hour we had managed to paint those, prep and paint two more, and weed the memorial garden too!

There were only a few whoopsies of people putting their hands or arms in wet paint, which considering Dave and Andy started painting the bench top before the struts was pretty impressive!

A lovely hot & sunny morning working with the Friends of Nore Barn Woods (FONBW), clearing bramble and overhanging branches from the path along the foreshore and in the woods. The FONBW volunteers are always so welcoming, and there were a lot of interesting conversations as well as great conservation! I wax a lone GGer today and chatted to people walking along the paths about the tasks we were doing and about how essential volunteering is to many organisations, even for just 1 hour a month! Come and join next month if you can!

First of all, CONGRATULATIONS TO JUDY, who completed her 800th Good Deed this evening! What an outstanding achievement!

After some celebratory Jelly Babies (and ice-creams for those lacking in willpower), the runners completed the 2km Run Walk Local route before joining in with the litter pick.

Paddleboard UK had provided us with some new folding litter pickers and some super-strong rubbish sacks, so we got stuck in with cleaning the water ways of Hilsea Moat.

Only Jen was brave enough to de-shoe and paddle out to retrieve some litter, whilst others channeled their inner gymnast to balance, bend and extend to reach the discarded plastic bottles and cans. Thanks to Val and Andy for providing a Generation Game-esque relay handover from the banks to the Moat!

We pulled out a pair of socks, a rugby ball and a bike saddle, complete with post, as some of our more intriguing finds.

The ducks and swans seemed very satisfied when they returned to their freshly cleaned homes - great job everyone!