Eight OWLs at today’s work party, including friendly new volunteer, off-duty Policeman Sam who took to litterpicking as though he had been doing it all of his life. And who is supportive of the gay community and totally cool about cruising. A lovely guy and we hope he’ll be litterpicking with us again soon.’
With such a great number of OWLs in the woods we were able to cover a lot of territory.
And not just litterpicking – one of our number got his tool out and made good use of it, opening up the paths for easier cruising.
Starting off in two groups, but then dispersing, we made our ways as usual through the cruising area, clearing up all the litter we could find and emptying our various black sacks which we’ve conveniently attached to trees in the hot spots.
Surely this is taking clearing up just a little bit too seriously……..?
Plenty of full sacks were brought back to base part-way through the session, just in time for us to enjoy some refreshments.
Then on for more, with our OWLs seeking out territory that might not have been visited for a while.
Finally back to base and the placing of the sacks at the side of theroad ready for collection.
We reckon that’s the equivalent of 33 of our ‘regular’ sacks. Add on the equivalent of 44 sacks collected by our lovely ‘solo’ litterpickers and that makes 77 sacks-worth of litter this last month. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
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)