It was fab to welcome Leszek to his first task in Portsmouth this evening - thanks for coming to visit!

The evening started with adding lights and sticks to the lanterns that people had made at various community events over the past few weeks. The next task was reuniting lanterns with their owners ahead of the parade.

Marshalling this year was a bit of an easier as the partial road closure magically expanded in to a full road closure.

Sinéad entertained the crowds with her light up poi (apologies for the spelling, Sinead!) whilst the rest of us carried the "special" lanterns that had been donated.

After spending a bit of time stripping lanterns of their lights and sticks ready to be reused again next year, we all headed off for some much needed down-time.

It was a warm one on the farm again this evening where Danni had instructions from Tom for us to fill the maze with manure from the muck piles.

We took it in turns shovelling, then transporting down to the maze site where we started to build the beds.

It was hot and smelly work and hopefully didnt put off our fab newcomer Michael who got stuck right in with helping out!

Having been part of the maze build since the beginning its very exciting to see the stage where its at and very rewarding. It was a good session and an extra good workout

A bit of a change from flyering this evening before our main session where instead we got stuck in to creating some fairy doors for the farm to use to help engage children on the farm site.

It was lovely to put our creative skills to use and have a chat as well as meeting the new piggies!

Leszek and I got stuck in clearing weeds and brambles outside Townhill Community Centre. Helping to make the area look good for the local community. Lots of fun on a beautiful sunny evening in the glowing light of the setting sun. We created a lovely pile of thorns, brambles and weeds which we then realised we had to transport round the corner. We have hopefully reunited a few stray toys we left near the gate which had been lost in the weeds and brambles. A good workout and we will be back to finish off very soon.

A bumper crop of goodgymers turned up to help finish off laying the path for the 'living maze' ahead of the farms open day on Saturday.

It was nice to welcome Kyra to her first goodgym session and also to welcome back Alice,Frederick,Jo and Lexie.

Hannah and Alice got to work borrowing woodchip from other parts of the farm - being resourceful with buckets!

Everyone else was moving the material to be laid on the path from the top of the farm down to the maze site where I was awaiting with a trusty rake to spread it all out.

There wasnt much woodchip mulch to go around but we were pleasantly surprised how quickly it spread!

It was such a lovely evening, with good vibes, sunshine and lovely chats. The perfect session!

In the blistering heat we were back flyering for the farm. Due to the heat we decided to have a leisurely stroll and chat whilst leafletting which was a lovely way to get some steps in.

It was really nice to welcome back Jo for the session and spend some time chatting whilst flyering.

We had so much fun on atherfield rd we forgot to take some photos so all did our best job posing with a leaflet back at the farm! We distributed around 100 leaflets before the main session.