Last night we were out on a litter pick where we tried to complete a bingo card of different drinks. Last week 60% of what we found were bottles so thought this would be fun.

Like last week we struggled to find any litter for the first 30 minutes of the session and not bottles at all. But then we walked some paths we hadn't been through before and found the jackpot!

Near the Winchester round about there was a set of steps we were able to fill 1 and a half bags of litter making a real difference through there.

We then continued back up Winchester Road while the "Just Run Local" run group when past us.

In the end we had 4 and a half bags of rubbish and didn't complete a line of the bingo but got a lot of threes.

Last night we weren't back out in Basignstoke with a spooky litter pick! Sammi brought the outfits and we all looked great if a little scary to meet in the dark.

It was a great start to the session with Tazmin bringing a delicious pumpkin pie which was my first time trying one. Definitely got the mood right!

We went out past Cranbourne School which was remarkably clean taking 45 minutes to fill our first bag. But when we crossed the Winchester Road roundabout and started heading up we got a lot more litter.

We worked our way back to the social club via Goodman Close playground finding in total 4 bags of litter!

There were some interesting things found, including one of the worst smells I've ever had the misfortune to smell. The weirdest thing we found was a toilet seat lid

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 were once again joined by Alan from Natural Basingstoke for a great session where we went out to Lyford which NB are trying to rewild.

This involved dead-heading the flowers from the Golden Rod plants which aren't native and try to take over areas. Always nice to be outside and there was plently of wildlife out and about.

It was a race against time, but it was a very good session led by Tazmin who was joined by a host of regulars in Sammi, Evelyn, Christine & Yazid

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!

We had a great crew at this weeks session, vibes started high with the music going and setting off from the Social Club.

Luke was back for his second session and it was lovely seeing everyone else as well!

We were super productive filling 6 bags of litter from around Kings Furlong up towards Brookvale, unfortunately we didn't find any underwear for national underwear day, but we did find a cache of moldy bread, empty engine oil and a shopping trolley which Yazid naturally got into.

Last night we did some flyering for local charities and groups, for the Brookvale Village Hall we were distributing their newsletter "The Blurb" and then also flyers from Neighbourcare, MindSpace and GoodGym.

It was a very nice night, with beautiful weather and some great chats with Evelyn and Tazmin managing to distribute to all the Blurbs that we were asked too.

After a few months of hard work and great numbers we decided to do a social sessions this week!

As usual we met at the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club who have incredibly generously allowed us to use the their committee room for free all year. Then we went for a walk out and around the War Memorial Park before scurrying back once it started raining.

Once we were back at BSSC we went into the committee room and set up for our games night. Yeun & Tazmin both brought some board games to play and we decided to try some altered team games. We started with Articulate where to make it harder we combined it with charades, the highlight was definitely Yazid trying to make us guess "stream" which took at least 5 minutes.

We followed this with Scattergories where we decided to all work together to get the most possible words. I would like to formally admit that Charli was right and that a dormouse weighs significantly less than a pound.

Throughout all of this there were great conversations, snacks and a lot of laughs!

Thank you all for a great evening