Well done to Tessa, Kadriye and Alison, who joined me to tidy up Boyn Grove Park and nearby streets. The park and A4 offered rich pickings. We received thanks and cheers from grateful motorists and pedestrians, and also Georgeta, who was passing on her bike on her way to a GoodGym mission.

I also had a lovely chat with children at All Saints School, who were also doing some lunchtime litter picking.

Kudos to Viv and Angela, who targeted Furze Platt, and to Christine, who cleaned up around Castle Hill. Also to Sol, Matt, Diya and Kanika, who all blitzed streets near work or home.

We all got some steps in and got a good workout lugging those bags around. Go team!

Carol, Sarah, Viv and Sheila helped out at the Baby Bank this morning. It was Viv's first volunteer at the facility but she quickly got to grips with the checking process for clothes donations. We spent the morning checking, sorting, and putting away clothes alongside some corporate volunteers.

10 GoodGymmers "came together" outside the Braywick Nature Centre on a much warmer evening that we've been having of late to attempt to build stag beetle habitats. Unfortunately, upon trying to locate the equipment we realised that our task owner may have accidentally forgotten we were coming and hence had to think of a plan B(eetle). Perhaps "Yesterday" I should have sent a reminder to say "Don't let me down". Amy and I even tried calling for "Help!", but alas, in the end we just had to "Let it be".

Thankfully our glorious leader Amy had a colony of litter pickers in the boot of her car (sadly, not a VW Beetle!) so we set to work with the intention of having a social walk around the parkrun loop, a very "long and winding road", whilst clearing up any litter we saw en route.

We stag-gered around together, chatted and cleaned up a few bags of rubbish. Great job team! Hopefully we can return another evening to give the beetles a "little help from their friends" so they can "twist and shout" in their new home!

We also congratulated Tony on his 50th good deed this evening! Well done Tony!

For the first session of the year at Braywick Plant Nurseries we were asked to help sort a whole load of donated pots from under some benching. This is part of a larger reorganisation project, and will allow the benching to be moved into its new position. The nursery likes to re-use as many pots as possible, but we had to remove any that were broken, too small or had the names of plants or other nurseries printed on them. The remainder were sorted into stacks of similar sizes and stored in a large wooden crate. There are so many different pot dimensions, and we were all a bit goggle-eyed by the end! But we cleared a large area, enabling the good works to continue. It was great to see Christine back for her second session, and to catch-up with Viv and Laura

Three cheers to all the GoodGymers who got out and used their energy to tidy up our streets and parks.

A big welcome to first-timers Dave and Christine, who joined me at Kidwells Park along with Sheila and Tessa. I confidently said there wouldn't be masses of litter in the park. What rubbish!

Sol picked up 4 bucket-fulls of litter near her workplace.

Diya and Kanika reported '2 big bags of frozen litter picked up by frozen people'.

Georgeta targeted the A404 underpass in Cox Green and filled up 2 bags - landfill waste in one and recyclables in the other.

Viv and Angela also litter picked locally, along with honorary canine GoodGym member Flora.