The Trash Bash for Cash starts on Feb 1st. 

Each day I will be walking for at least half an hour and collecting any rubbish I find. 

                                GET OUT ...GET FIT...GET TIDY. 

 Please sponsor me or join the challenge and ask for sponsorship.  The money collected from this challenge will go towards the hall building fund, replacing an old damp Nissan hut with a new purpose-built hall. This challenge will not only keep you fit and healthy but will improve the environment and will enable us to replace the much-needed hall for future generations.

Day 1. Feb 1st

I had help today. My 2 daughters and 2 black labradors Tally and  Lucy. We walked on Sandy and Rocky beach. It was good to see were not the only people picking up the rubbish left behind from the latest storms. It was mainly fishing rope and nylon cord we found but also some plastic. There was one heavy rope and I am glad there were 3 of us to carry it all.

 Thank you to Anne Curgenven who has joined the challenge. She has always been brilliant at collecting and tidying the rubbish. I know her continuing collection will make a big difference.

Day 2 We went to Porthcothen today and walked on to Park Head. The team of 5 females (including the 2 dogs) picked 2 bin bigs full and also an oxygen canister. 

Day 3 Walked along Constantine Bay today and it was great to see how clean it was. There must be pickers who regularly comb the beach. Someone had left a mass of ropes at the top of the steps so we carried them back to the car and will dispose of them . It was good to hear more people who have joined the Trash Bash. Rosie is busy collecting in the lanes and Sally has been up on the cliffs at Trevone at the edge of the fields and in the hedges.

Day 4 Lisa, Sally and Charlie the spaniel joined the team today. We walked around Trevose Head in quite a wind with clear views all around. There was only one plastic bottle on Mother Iveys. We came home mainly with poo bags full of poo! For some reason, people are scooping the poo into a plastic bag and then leaving it in the hedge. It would be far better for the poo to be left in the hedge without the plastic.

Day 5 We went down to the Lizard today to complete a final part of the Cornish coast path I had not done.  Good news! Apart from the paper bags that our most delicious Anne's pasties were wrapped in, there was no rubbish to be collected and taken home.  Lucy found a very old tennis ball she carried home but otherwise, there was nothing to detract from the stunning scenery

Day 6 Following the big storm in the night, there was surprisingly little to pick up on the beach.  The rubbish I found was plastic that had blown out of the skips in the car park. Also, a plastic pipe from a  house had blown down.

Day 7 Walked around Trevone Head today. Wonderful not to have to pick much up, except a couple of plastic bags and then a bag full of poo hanging on a bush. Why do people do that? It is one worse than putting the poo in the bag and pushing it under the hedge.

Day 8  walked around Trevone today. It was very tidy.  Hardly anything to pick up.

Day 9 Today's walk took us from  Porthcothan to Treyarnon. Again there was nothing to pick up on the coast path, but some washed-up rubbish (mainly string ) on the beaches. We came home with a bin bag full of rubbish and a happy memory of a beautiful sea.

Day 10 A walk by Bedruthen Steps today and only one plastic bag to collect.

Day 11  Sally, Lisa, Sophie and I went out collecting today on Tregirls Beach. We had the two dogs with us as usual. It was fairly clean but we did get about half a carrier bag full of the usual bits of string and plastic brought in by the tide. 

Day 12 There were quite a few people at Watergate Bay this morning getting in a walk before the rain arrives.  A friend of mine was there last week and said there was a lot of rubbish but today the beach was looking pretty clean which was good to see. A group arrived just after us to collect rubbish and were concentrating on the microplastics at the top of the beach. We walked the length of the beach and collected a small carrier bag full. We also found a nice yellow ring, which I have cleaned up and am using as a toy for the dog.

Day 13 We walked around a very wet Trevone today. There was nothing to collect on the beach but some soggy cardboard to pick up that had blown out of the skip.

Day 14 Final day of the Trash Bash but I will go on collecting as I walk. It was good to see, thanks to the effort of many, only a small amount to pick up today in Trevone.  A thank you to all those who joined the Trash Bash in collecting and also to those who sponsored the event.