Random act of kindness....

 Or just plain oddness???

You decide!

I am really very lucky that in a built up residential town we are surround in the wider area by the beautiful Cannock Chase but that we also live about 2 steps away from gorgeous woodland with a few small walks to be had. 

It is lovely to be able to take the kids (dog in tow) for a little adventure and exploration without having to worry about getting them all on the bus or in the car. I seems to be used by many dog walkers and the local community in general but over the past few months I have been saddened by it's decline.

Maybe it has been the children being off in the holidays, I did see quite a few around on bikes, which may have contributed to the increase in litter, but there seems to also be a lot of beer cans and the like strewn across the path so I'm guessing it has become somewhat of a nightly meet up point for drinkers.

So Sad!

So, me and the little chicks decided to take action! Only small steps but we are hoping it may have cheered some one up along the way.

We went on a walk as we usually do. Whilst I collected any litter I could find, the children collected items like sticks, cones and stones to take home.

We brought them back and proceeded to decorate them; the sticks with glitter to make 'wands', the stones with little messages and the cones were painted golden.

We then took them back to where we found them and left them randomly for fellow walkers to find and hopefully smile at the little messages or at least laugh with bemusement. 

Here is our attempt to add a bit of 'beauty' to our local 'beauty spot'.

A small selection of the messages we left on stones.

We also added a selection of stone creatures hidden away in the grassland.

We lined the pathway with our glitter sticks decorated with roses and sparkly stones.

'Fairies live here'

We hung the golden pine cones from trees and bushes.