With all the hot weather recently we have been accelerated into Autumn, and the result is leaves. Lots of leaves everywhere. This has proved a particular problem at a local school where the playground has been under assault from the sea of leaves dropping from their huge plane trees all over the playground, so local environmental charity Cultivate called us in to help tackle the problem.

After a warm run/bike over to the school we met the rest of the group and saw the scale of the issue. Luckily Divya had spent the previous evening clearing leaves at a local park so had the technique sorted, while the rest of us tried and tested a combination of approaches including raking, bucket scooping and the ever faithful but time consuming collection by hand.

As we worked, Beth and I discussed another pressing issue -the lack of new puns related to leaves for the run report. Beth came up with the excellent 'Don't stop be-leafing', but we both agreed the supply of leaf word play is well and truly exhausted...if anybody has any new suggestions then we'd love to hear them!

After 45 minutes of work we had swept, packed, bagged and piled, and after Romina tested the resilience and comfort of the pile with one flying leap into the middle of them, we did our final tally. I can reveal that...drum roll...we managed an epic 52 bags. I don't beleaf it!

Next week's group task is just being confirmed, so look out for that, but don't forget about the brilliant ongoing task set up by Michelle for the local food bank. happy GoodGyming one and all.