The evening definitely had an autumnal feel to it this evening – perhaps because the weather felt cooler than it has for some time, or perhaps because there were lots of leaves on the floor of the woods as we walked through.

Tonight we had the lovely Phil back in our midst. It was lovely to have his happy cheery persona in the group again. It’s been a while Phil but we were simply delighted to have you back with us tonight (to be honest, it felt like you’d never been away!). We’ve missed your sense of humour and your cheery disposition.

We met outside the Motherwell hub and decided that given the various injuries (and other perfectly valid excuses…) that we would have a brisk walk as opposed to a run this evening. There’s a lovely wood close to the Motherwell offices that leads to a lovely area of green parkland. I thought it would be the perfect spot for a nice run (or walk) this evening. The walk turned out to be somewhat of a mystery tour (yes, I got us lost and walking round in loops!) and we covered more ground that we had planned…. still, Karen, Nigel & Phil saw a fair amount of Wistaston’s finest woodland! We eventually found our way back to base and weren’t too late back at all…. at least it gave us all a good opportunity to catcu up ;-)

Back at the task, we set to work sorting out school uniforms. Following on from the success of the uniform campaign, there were racks of clothes that needed to be sorted out. Our task was to look through the items of clothing, check the clothing quality, discard any that were worn or stained and then fold them and put them back onto the shelving into the correct age category.

4 of us spent an hour and we barely scraped the surface of the clothes…. I’ve got a feeling we’ll be back at Motherwell again very soon!

Well done folks, an all in all, another productive evening (even though it didn’t look like we’d done a lot!).

Have a great week and hope to see you at the next one!