It’s always good to be in the woods with other guys and today was no exception. Fine weather and guys who were up for it. (Litterpicking, that is). And good to be able to welcome a new OWL who had come along to take part.
The Health and Safety briefing over, two groups were soon underway. One group heading to the woods between the Snaresbrook Road car park and Eagle Pond. The other group heading to the woods between the car park and Woodford New Road.
We were all quickly down to work
We get used to the variety of things we find. Who wouldn’t expect to find a bass speaker cabinet in the woods?!
One of our team reckons, with them having been banned, this could be the last ever piece of single-use plastic cutlery we find….
Talking of unusual finds, what about these? Had someone thrown their (sex) toys out of the pram?! We really should have included something in the pic to give a sense of scale! Believe us, that is one LARGE dildo! Several said they’d give use of that a wide berth. Another commented that it would create one! 
Much of the woods having been rid of general litter and much offensive litter, and with an extra rubbish sack installed in one place and another removed in another place, it was time to meet up again and enjoy friendly chat, banter and refreshments.
Then, for most of us, off again to do more of the same but in different places.
With practically all of the woods having been cleared, as well as the stretch along the road and the area near the school, it was time to regroup, tie the bags and leave them ready for collection.
The total bag-count for todays session? The equivalent of 27 standard sized rubbish sacks. Adding 32 collected over the last month by our three ‘solo’ litterpickers gives a monthly total of 59 sacks, much of which heads off for re-cycling. (Not the dildo! That’s being saved for a special occasion!)
Please note that we respect everyone’s right to anonymity and only show pics of those willing to have them posted. There might have been more OWL volunteers taking part than are in the above pictures.
No inferences should be drawn from anyone’s participation in an OWL litterpicking session.