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 another great sessions last night, the focus of the session was flyering for BVA's upcoming Pumpkin Train on the 29th of October. Miraculously we managed time time last nights session perfectly and avoid all rain and only get slightly chilled by the wind!

We split into two groups to hit as many houses as possible, with Yazid, Tazmin & Mohamed starting together and working at rocket speed always getting ahead of Daisy and myself.

I really enjoy this type of session as it gives a chance to chat as we go and we do have a greatgroup of people volunteering each week.

We managed to deliver all 400 of the flyers we were given, so I hope there is a great attendance for the event!

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