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November womble

45 Dereham Rd,Honingham,Norwich,NR9 5AP

16 Nov 2014

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Meeting at the Village Hall 0945 for our usual tour of the village, and get it looking nice for Christmas. Conditions a bit difficult - tto many leaves hiding the litter. Managed to fill 6 bags, though. Found that some wretch had dumped 8 or 9 black bags full of dog excrement beside Norwich Road. This was reported and promptly cleared up by BDC, bless them..

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Spring Pick

Meet at the Village Hall at 10 if you can make.

Post summer pick

As usual at 10am at the Village Hall 6 bags and a tyre rim. Not bad as it was 3 months since the last one...

Summer pick

Time .....10am Place.....Village Hall

June

Usual place, usual time Collected 10 bags, assorted metal and a hub cap

Spring pick

Meet at the village hall at 10am. POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW

New Year Pick

We picked 10 bags and a sign post and a car seat. Fridge and tyres in lay by now removed

November pick

Meeting at 10 at Village Hall We collected 10 bags, 1 tyre and 1 bucket.

Autumn tidy

Meet up at the Village Hall, 10am A grand total of 14 bags

Summer pickings

Usual time at the usual place..... 10am at the Village Hall unless you have made other arrangements. Thanks and wear sunhats! 16 bags collected, well done everyone

Spring Tidy

Meet at the Village Hall 10 am for a much needed tidy up Thanks to everyone's collective efforts we picked enough to fill 11 sacks. Great work everyone and I'll give notice of the next one in June.

Spring pick

A great pick in and around the village. Thanks to everyone's collective efforts we picked enough to fill 11 sacks. Great work everyone and I'll give notice of the next one in June.

Spring Clean

Meet as usual for a clean-up Another successful event - 10 sacks, a car wheel and a soiled pair of underpants. Well done all

August Session

Usual tour of the Village cleaning up after the "Tossers" Lovely hot day, super turnout, so we managed the full works and filled another 10 bags. We welcomed 2 new members, Carol & Ewan.

May clean-up

Meet as usual for a tour of the village, clearing up the McLitter before the verges get too overgrown. A lovely morning, and not as much rubbish as usual - has McDonalds closed????

New Year tidy

Grotty day, but a good turnout. We managed ti fill the usual dozen sacks. Thankyou McDonalds once again for your contribution - what would we do without you!!!

Summer spruce up

Usual meet up at 0945 for the usual routes around the village. Despite the impending hurricane we managed to do the whole village and fill another 8 sacks, mainly with McDonalds rubbish as usual. Than...

June pick

Meet at Jubillee Cottage 0945 Lovely weather made the task almost a pleasure. Lovely to see the area looking good for a few hours, but I see this morning the first McRubbish has already been deposited...

March Tidy up

Meet as usual at the Village Hall 0945 Good turnout on a lovely sunny morning - almost a pleasure to clean up after the MacTossers!

New Year spruce-up

Meet at the Village Hall 945 am for the usual tour of the Village. A lovely break in the weather, so we managed a good turnout and a successful womble. 8 sacks filled this time. We also did a pick al...

Remember remember...

Usual arrangements - cu at the Village Hall 0945 Lovely day for a pick - fine and windy. Lots of fallen leaves but we managed to fill 8 sacks this time.

September Session

We may well cover some new ground this time. A bit thin on the ground this time, but we managed to clean up everywhere planned, plus tidying up the pathway to the church.

Summer cleanup

Good turnout, and managed to do the usual route. We are having reservations about the safety of picking along the Mattishall Road - very heavy and fast traffic - so we may well decide to leave this o...

May Event

Same time, same place. Welcome, Heidi & Simon, to our little group of wombles Great turnout, lovely weather! Amount of litter not as bad as usual (only six sacksfull this time). Are we winning?????? I...

Mad as March Hares

Meet at the Village Hall as usual. Time to get the village looking nice for Spring. Besides our usual route, we met up with some of the neighbouring Weston group to clean up along Wood Lane, which is ...

New Year Patrol

Covering the usual route around the village to pick up the seasonal rubbish. A good turnout on a damp, grey morning. We managed to collect 13 bags, plus a very wet £10 note. Obviously one of our re...

There'll be fireworks tomorrow!

Meet at the Village Hall 10 am as usual. What a horrible wet morning!!! Many thanks to the stalwarts who braved the conditions. Reduced numbers but we managed to cover the whole of the normal route - ...

September Tidy

Same time, same place Managed the complete village, and collected the usual 11 bags. Well done all

July session

Meet as usual 0945 hrs Reduced numbers this time due to holiday absences, but we managed to spread ourselves and complete the circuit. Collected 8 bags and 2 tyres.

St George's Pick

St George's Day, so don't get cross. Time for us to be dragon ourselves around the village again with our sacks and pickers. A reduced squad, but we managed to do the whole circuit and fill 12 bags, p...

Wood Lane special

As Wood Lane is closed we are taking the opportunity to pick along this normally busy road. A lovely day for it. We managed to clear 18 sacks full, 2 tractor tyres, 13 car wheels/tyres, 2 roadsign fra...

VALENTINES Womble

Now that the snow has cleared, we will meet at the Village Hall 0945 as usual. Looks like plenty to do! What an amazing result! We put out a full team on a beautiful morning, and managed to get furthe...

Remember Remember...

Should be plenty of spent rockets to pick up today!!! Not many fireworks, but we filled 9 sacks, plus 2 tyres and a redundant road-sign. Another great turnout from villagers who obviously take a great...

Autumn Tidy

Autumn Tidy Lots of pickers on late summer hols, so a smaller number turned out this time. However we managed to cover the usual area, and filled 9 bags. Lots of MacRubbish from the ever present MacTo...

Summer Sruce-up

Only 8 bags this time - are we winning the battle? Blessings upon the driver who hooted at one of our pickers, slowed down, and threw some litter out of his car. What a cretin!!!

MAY WOMBLE

Meet as usual at the Village Hall 9.45. Perhaps we will be going a bit further afield this time.

May Womble

11 of us toured the usual routes around the village. Only 8 bags this time - are we winning?? Perhaps the MacDonalds Munchers don't need so much comfort food now the warmer weather is here???

Spring Tidy up

A record morning - 12 bags, 2 empty gas cylinders, 1 tyre and various car parts. As usual, lots of contributions from the McDonalds munchers!

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