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I'M NOT THE LITTER PLUCKER, I'M THE LITTER PLUCKER'S SON ...

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Do you use King George V Park? Do your kids play there? Do you cycle or walk through it? Do you play football on the grass or basketball on the tarmac? Have you ever been there and thought: This place could do with a tidy?

Your lucky day may have come.

On Sunday 10 September, locals with an interest in the area will meet at 3pm and spend an hour or so pushing their nearest and dearest into bushes in  search of rubbish.

It's even more fun than it sounds. City of Edinburgh Council provide smart, brightly coloured plastic tabards, gloves, bin-bags and litter-picking devices which let you pretend you are Percy the Park Keeper or work in a nuclear power station. Local samaritans provide free chocolate.

Amazingly, it's all rather convivial, interesting for fans of Miami CSI, and a good opportunity to meet other people escaping similarly dismal Sundays indoors at home. And kids love pulling rotten horses' heads out of the undergrowth. No, no, joking, joking.

See you there.