Such a shame that we possibly appeared to be so unwelcome to any drivers who might have been coming to our litter-picking session – because the gate was locked. It wasn’t our fault that their passage was blocked!
We’ve had a word with the Forest Rangers and since then, up to the date of posting this on our website, the gate has remained open. While we were there some cars had driven the wrong way across the dragon’s teeth (damage to their tyres to be paid for by the Corporation of London as there was no indication that the other entry to the car park was ‘no entry’?) And there were a few near-misses when cars expecting to drive straight into the car park suddenly changed their minds.
We were light on volunteer litter-pickers today, but the fact that there was much less litter than usual made it easier and mean that we could move round faster. Guys really are taking more care with their litter, taking it away with them or putting it in the bins or bags we’ve provided.
We made our regular visit to ‘The Gymn’ (well, it seems there are quite a few work-outs there!) and it was, as usual, showing signs of heavy usage. But again, not as littered as it often is.
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Even ‘Honeysuckle Corner’ needed less attention.
Most of the signs we had put up some months ago were still in place, and it seemed that someone had taken ‘health in the work place’ one stage further
It reminded us of that old joke:
Question: “Tell me, do you smoke after sex?”
Answer: “To tell you the truth I don’t know, I’ve never looked!”
Naturally we took a well-earned break for our refreshments. And today in the sweltering heat we needed the ice-cold drinks of water as well as the tea, coffee, buns, pies and biscuits!
There were lots of cruisers around, and it was good to get some friendly smiles and some ‘thank you’s’. And of course, seeing who was around meant that some of us took the opportunity to think about where we would return to at the end of the litter-picking!
We don’t show any prejudice on our litter-picking work parties – this haul had probably not been left by cruisers, but nevertheless we took it away,
(Please note – we only show pictures of litter-pickers if they are happy that we do so; some, understandably want to remain anonymous, and that’s fine by us.)
It was another successful litter-picking session and our final haul of 14 sacks was impressive and demonstrates how much territory we had been able to cover.
We have two more litter-picking sessions planned for this year (check the dates here). Please consider joining our friendly litter-picking group, aiming to make the area better for everyone.