BRACKLEY LITTER WOMBLES

  WEEKLY WOMBLE AWARDS       WOMBLES OF THE WEEK   Go to Jenni Collins two daughters who got stuck into helping us clear the ditch at the back of Tesco car park. They were small enough to clamber through the undergrowth. Great work by our mini wombles again!     LUCKY FIND OF THE WEEK   Two winners. Bernadette for the scary doll found near the church and Andrew for his collection of suspension springs found in the Tesco ditch.           Thank you to all our Wombles and keep your eyes peeled especially for those elusive Womble wages!

  13 Wombles tackled Tesco this morning! 29 bags and a load of grot collected   Looks like someone was collecting parts to make their own car. 4 hubcaps, suspension springs, brake disc...   Thank you to today's gang! Great fun as always

  Two womble sessions this week!   Tomorrow (Wednesday 13th September), 10:00 meet at St Peter's Church.   We'll do around there. St Peter's Gate has been mentioned to me, so we'll see what we can find to keep us busy for an hour.     Saturday 16th September 10:00-12:00 meet at Brackley Library just before 10 to arm ourselves up.   Tackling big Tesco again. The litter has accumulated in the hedgerows around there and we shall try to really clear that ditch that was so full of rubbish. If you would like to meet us at Tesco, please just turn up.

  WEEKLY WOMBLE AWARDS!   WOMBLE OF THE WEEK Got to award it to the wonderful Conrad Woolley. This gentleman is a legend. Out in all weathers and always wears his womble vest. For those of you that don't know who he is, he is the white haired gentleman that Wombles the High Street.   LUCKY FIND OF THE WEEK Goes to Bernadette, who found a black wig! Thank you to everyone who goes out and collects litter. The difference we have made to the town has been noticed by many.    

  Jackie B, Bernadette, Les and myself accosted the MCS hedge this morning. 3 bags of rubbish removed from there. There may be more but the cuttings have been left to mulch under the hedge and they were full of holly and other prickly things. Anyway it looks a lot better.   We then moved on to the old swimming pool car park and took our part bags home to continue wombling with. Hedge is so much better but you can see they've just left hedge clippings there so there may be items that unearth as it mulches down. Good news though, we've heard back from the school and hopefully will be invited in to give an assembly.    

  WOMBLE(S) OF THE WEEK   Go to Nadine Hunn's daughter and her friend who regularly go out wombling every weekend and who joined in our Wednesday Womble last week even though they were at the SNYE event.   Got to love our mini wombles!   LUCKY FIND OF THE WEEK   Goes to Orla who found an abandoned scooter on her way to last Wednesday's Womble.  

 Report from our Sarah Timms Muck spreading time, it's so disheartening. The farmer tending the fields behind Evenley, has yet again spread his muck heap containing millions of small bits of agricultural plastic all over the fields.  I filled this poo bag, on a walk of less than a mile this morning, again. If this is on the edges, I dread to think what's further into the field tainting our soil and crops for years to come. Every year this happens, on millions of acres of agricultural soil across the country no wonder we have cancers to contend with now...    

  Outside Ta Bros fish and chip shop this earlier evening...   Me: Sees chip wrapper on the floor goes over screws it up saying out loud "Some t**t has left this on the floor" and puts it in the bin.   Three young lads when their mate returns from little Tesco "You left your rubbish there and said you were going to put it in the bin when you got back""She's just put your rubbish in the bin" "No one should be putting your rubbish in the bin".   Grumbled apologies from said young man.   Great to see the youth shaming their mate!

  Walked past the MCS hedge yesterday.... Now it's been cut back you can see what a right state it's in!     The mum who reported it to us in a different group said her child proclaimed "The moon must be so sad to see the rubbish". He was quite right, the moon must be crying.   Though I am now itching to attack it, I'm saving it for this Wednesday's Womble so that the kids can see it as they walk to school and also see a gang of Wombles clearing it. I'm also going to email the head to let him know this and also see if I can go in and do some assemblies. (Yes I am brave enough to talk to a whole year group of teenagers. )   We're now getting a few Wednesday Womble locations especially now we can see in the hedgerows. 1) MCS hedges down to old swimming pool hedges 2) St Peter's Gate/Roman Way down to Turweston Bridge 3) Lark Rise to the left and round the back of Tesco   "Please let us know of areas you see, That need some Womble tlc."   ...

  87 bags this month putting our total to 402!!! That's right folks, we have tipped the 400 bag mark.   Great work by everyone and thank you for helping to keep Brackley litter free!