We had a bumper group of runners back this week for the longer run over to Jubilee Primary School to help out with their gardening tasks. 🧤

Warm up, introductions and categories all done in short order (amazing how many Estate Agents there are and that we could keep naming them at Michael who was no. 14)!

Georgie had let me know that she intended to walk to the session which was great and stopped by to introduce herself then set off early to try to beat us there - sadly using City Mapper she came a cropper and was being sent the wrong way until the group ran past to call out directions to her. The front runners, chilled joggers and our one walker all arrived at pretty much the same time due to traffic light hold ups which was nice twist. 🚶🏃

Once up at the playground we saw that Juan had laid out all the tools (pint sized mostly) for us and we were ready to divide into 3 groups: 1. Dumpers were to head over to the bins and start dumping the green waste that had been collected. 2. Topiary group was set the challenge to trim the hedges of the outside garden into various animals (or just neat rectangles). 3. Trimmers were to cut back the twigs that were protruding through the fence into the netball/football/hopscotch court so no children might run into them.

There was however one slight glitch and it wasn't the size of the tools.... We had only one pair of shears (which gave up the ghost by the end), one secateurs and one hand secateur.... and 14 people itching to get chopping things back! We decided to keep rotating the person with the tools and have everyone else sweeping, clearing and pulling weeds by hand. This also led to about half the group finishing the dumping task quite quickly and not having a great deal to do so there was nothing else for it but to have a game of netball! 🏀

Half the group would play a friendly game while the rest worked and then they would swap so in the end it became a fitness session / gardening task and it looked like everyone was having a great time (see photos).

40 minutes later and we filled three huge builder's sacks with cuttings to drag over to the bins and Juan was very grateful and keen for us to come back soon when they will have more tools for us. ⏱

Big thanks to everyone for a really fun evening #DreamTeam 🤩