The grand finale of Discover Welling's Tour of Welling saw us hitting the high street for a litter hunt.

Our Fab Four met up with the Discover Welling team, staff from McDonald's and two local residents, then headed off in different directions to tackle hotspot areas where rubbish had collected.

In a moment of chance Khai was passing on the bus and spotted our GG red tops, so he hopped off and joined us for a bonus task credit. That's the power of GoodGym, and we unexpectedly the Fab Five!

You never know what you'll find on a litter pick, but a lonely baby's dummy 👶 provided useful inspiration for this report's title!

After an hour we piled up the filled bin bags and posed for the traditional group photo, just before the rain started. Perfect timing for us all to head home - with Khai getting back on the bus - after a job well done.

So that's a wrap for out part in the year's Great British Spring Clean. Same next year? Count us in!

This lunchtime we were back on the Tour of Welling with Discover Welling for the penultimate stop in their Great British Spring Clean adventure.

Julie kicked things off with a full workout, hauling the fully-loaded Tour trolley uphill from her home to meet us at Falconwood Parade. We’re talking grabbers, bags and hoops - basically a mobile clean-up command centre. Who needs a gym when you’ve got that?

For the rest of us the exercise was less intense as we took a deep dive into the world of playground litter. Bottles, cans, sweet wrappers and even a flip-flop had clearly been playing hide and seek in the bushes, but we wrestled them out.

With blue skies overhead and warm sunshine, it felt less like a task and more like a rewarding dose of the outdoors.

It was lovely to have Sandy with us, a local resident who read about the Tour on social media and decided to help out. Proof that community spirit, good vibes (and litter pickers) are contagious.

We didn’t conquer all the rubbish so a return visit (or two… or three 👀) might be on the cards. But for now, the areas we tackled are looking tidier and a little bit more loved.

Fancy swapping your usual routine for something like this? Come join us! We promise that trolley pulling is optional!

We supported Discover Welling on their Great British Spring Clean 'Tour of Welling' with a stop at Welling Station. A local councillor came along too.

Station staff were on hand to help and provided daffodils and crocus for us to plant. A lovely splash of colour alongside the path to and from the platform.

We also painted a wall in preparation for a new mural to be installed. Brown pebble-dashed concrete is now clean white.

A sunny task to brighten up the route used by so many local residents 😎.

On Thursday afternoon we joined the latest session of the 'Tour of Welling' for the Great British Spring Clean. Alongside members of Discover Welling and a local councillor our mission was to clean up Wrotham Road.

Armed with the essential tools of hi-vis vests, gloves, grabbers and litter bags we began picking up litter in front of St Michael's Community Centre and the other side of the street in front of the parade of shops.

Aided by the lovely sunny spring weather, we cleared loads of drinks cans and bottles from hedges, as well as lots of sweet packaging and cigarette ends.

We bumped into a member of the council's street cleaning team who had stopped for lunch in the café, and alerted him to the large gas canisters we'd hooked out of the bushes, so they could be picked up and disposed of safely. Then we moved on to the area leading into Stevens Park and the park itself.

Once we finished, that section of Wrotham Road looked much cleaner. And we'd enjoyed a rewarding hour in the sunny outdoors.

Look out for other stops on the Tour of Welling over the coming days, plus plenty more asks on offer in Bexley borough.

Tonight we made a splash in Welling as we teamed up with Discover Welling, PureGym and a local councillor to give the mural pedestrian tunnels under the railway bridge a proper spring clean!

We met at a nearby pub to fill up the buckets in the loos, no small feat when faced with little sinks! 🪣

Then came the challenge of carrying the liquid to the tunnels without slopping it all over the place. Who needs the gym when you’ve got a bucket workout like that? 💪

First job, a clean sweep! We brushed up broken glass and litter, leaving the pavement neat and tidy. 🧹

Then it was time to get soapy with the sponges, giving the murals the spa treatment they deserved. 🧽

There was some sticky business with stubborn stickers, but with plenty of suds and elbow grease we won the day.

By the time we'd finished, the tunnels definitely looked better. Proof that many hands can make a difference in just a short time. We wrapped up with a few team photos before heading home.📸

This was our second stop on Discover Welling’s Tour of Welling for the Great British Spring Clean, and we’re not done yet! There are more chances to dive in over the next fortnight, so don’t miss the opportunity to join us.

Let’s keep Welling bucket-loads better, one task at a time! ✨

Our friends at Discover Welling have launched 'The Tour of Welling', a series of community tidy-up events during the Great British Spring Clean fortnight, and we joined the first stop on the Tour.

Four of us gathered with the Discover Welling team and a local councillor for an afternoon litter pick at Shoulder of Mutton Green. Just a couple of hours earlier we’d been basking in decent weather at a task at Lesnes Abbey, but by the time we arrived in Welling, the sun had clocked off. The sky had turned an ominous shade of grey and a bitter wind was whistling around the Green trying to steal our bin bags.

Did that stop us? Of course not.

We scoured the Green for rubbish, and there was plenty to keep us busy. Into the bags went the usual culprits: vodka bottles, beer cans, cigarette butts, crisp packets, sweet wrappers, disposable cups and fast-food cartons.

But every litter pick has its surprises and mysteries.

Among the more unusual finds were a tea strainer and a pair of shoes. Were they connected? Was someone once brewing a cuppa on the Green before abandoning their footwear? We'll never know!

After an hour of teamwork and nattering we’d built up a pile of bin bags ready for the council to collect next week.

With the clouds looking more and more threatening, we made a timely retreat home just before the rain arrived.

A good job well done and stage one on the Tour of Welling completed!

Huge thanks to Jacqui from GG Brent for travelling north-to-south to lend a hand.