We had a great session last tonight with our monthly Walk together session in conjunction with Ramblers.

We had Kym & Daisy join us for their first sessions and they fit right in.

As usual we walked through Black Dam into Crabtree Plantation and while it was getting dark we were all in high spirits and it was great walking along and seeing everyone walking next to someone and chatting the whole time.

Our next Walk Together session is going to be the 18th of November and we have sessions every week between then and now.

Forgot to take the photo while Christine and Evelyn were there

We had a great session last night with Samantha back for her first session in a while! And Yazid providing his usual laughs while we collected 2 and a half bags of litter from central Basingstoke.

We changed it up last night and combined litter picking with creating a scarecrow for the Dashwood Manor scarecrow competition!

This was an opportunity to show off the great work that we do as a team so we wanted to emphases the litter picking we have done by accessorising with litter found on the day.

We split into two groups, Sammi who brought a lot of the materials for the scarecrow and Evelyn who brought all the newspaper to use as filling worked together to build the base of the scarecrow.

Meanwhile Christine who had come equipped with some great litter found throughout the week, Yazid, Tazmin and I went out litter picking to find litter to add. We were very successful finding lots of bottles, a belt, plenty of small bits and topped off with a purse!

Then we all came together and had the process of naming our gorgeous scarecrow, after some great suggestions we landed on Na-Trash-A. To end the night we ate the delicious brownies baked by Tazmin and Yazid had a little dance with Na-Trash-A.

Can't wait to win first prize tomorrow!

We had a really nice time yesterday joining BVA and Walk N Talk for a mental health walk.

Meeting at the War Memorial Park Christine for her first session with GoodGym beat us all there and was chatting with Jude from Walk N Talk when we arrived.

The purpose of the session was to get out and enjoy a walk while meeting some great people and some conversations about mental health. We got straight into it and I had a great conversation with Sammi & Dan from BVA about mental health, particularly after a long week of work. While Evelyn had a nice long conversation with Jude.

We then went down to Blackdam Pond where we must have seen every duck in Basingstoke!