Tonight was about shifting, wheeling, spreading and weeding but before we get to that we need to know how we got there. 😁

A bumper group of 13 signed up for this evening's run so what better way to welcome some fresh faces as well as some seasoned ones (welcome back Hannah!) than with a game of Top Trumps?? The category was wild animals of Africa and it turns out that TT has changed somewhat 'since I were a lad' in that it is a quiz rather than which animal could eat the others or which weighed more (more's the pity as I drew the Hippo). Anyway we learned that hippos can't swim, warthogs don't live in trees and storks can't really fly!! 🦁

A quick warm up in the Papa's playground saw a few folks mixing up left and right (don't ask our runners for directions) but we made it through and were off for the short 1.5km trip to Loughborough Farm. Michael as ever there to help out as back marker for us tonight. 🏃

We were met by Mohammed and Heather who would each lead a group to the Orchard and Styles Gardens respectively, the former had to shift a huge pile of woodchip and spread it on the paths and do some weed chopping, while the latter were pulling weeds and clearing debris and litter (while playing hop scotch over the slugs)! 🤸

40 minutes later Heather and Mohammed were delighted with our efforts and both areas were looking much improved. Joao got a great arm workout with the wheelbarrows! 💪

A pacey 1.5kms and we were back to base for a cool down and off home.

Keep your eyes on the socials over the next week as we have some great footage from tonight going up - big thanks to Maya for this! 🎥 🎬