There were GoodGymers and milestones galore this evening for our visit to North End Baptist Church.

Congratulations to Abby on her 200th Good Deed (and cape-wearing efforts!) and to Katie on her 400th!

There was no divide-and-conquer this evening, with everyone taking on firstly the front garden and then back. Weeds were pulled, litter was picked and the area generally spruced up.

Plenty of caterpillar friends were made along the way, and the poo-enthusiasts of the group had fun differentiating between cat and fox dollops.

Deacon Catherine was very impressed with the team's efforts. Well done, everyone!

Well, the title isn't quite true - we had plenty of purple sacks, and we helped the Havant Community Litter Pickers to fill 20 of them with rubbish collected from the field, the woods and the skate park (well done to Katie and Louisa for searching under the skate ramps for litter!).

John and Wilson made an unpleasant discovery of filled dog poo bags, scattered on the field, but they were collected up and disposed of more thoughtfully.

Val was helped by her grandson, Cameron, who also did an excellent job of being our Group photographer.

After the litter pick, we were invited into neighbouring St Alban's Church for a rewarding drink and cake, including Vicki's delicious flapjack.

A pleasant, chatty morning's work.

The North End street garden is in full summer bloom.

Val and Jane litter picked between the salvia flowers and amongst the lavender and buddleia.

I pruned back some of the overgrown shrubs and weeded along the front edges of the wall.

A quick tidy up!

Jane at the Baffins Pond Association asked us to litter-pick the car park, the dipping pond and Stagg Wood. We soon collected plenty of rubbish, including hidden litter in the depths of Stagg Wood.

It was great to walk amongst the healthy, trees that were just tiny saplings when Portsmouth GoodGym helped spread bark around them to suppress the weeds a few years ago.