Well, weren't we lucky with the weather?! It had rained cats and dogs today so it was an absolute re-leaf that the rain had stopped by the time we met for our Group Run. After a quick warm up in the Quaker car park, we ran through the streets of Kingston to get to St Luke's School.

Surrounded by beautiful trees, the only downside is the piles of leaves that they create in Autumn. The bike racks were difficult to access as they were covered with large oak leaves. Easy to sweep and pile up though and we had a great time with the leaf-grabber - made the job so much easier.

The other area we tackled was by the classrooms. A tree with smaller, golden leaves had shed by the classrooms making it impossible to keep the indoor carpets clean once they had covered the kid's shoes. We did our best to sweep them up with the pine needles but as they were small and wet, they were very resistant to the brooms. We persisted and soon had bags and bags of leaves to show for our persistence.

The last section we did was in the netball court and we went back to the oak leaves - phew! An hour and a half of bagging leaves made the playground look much tidier and less of a slip hazard. Difficult to show in the photos in the dark but we were pleased with our achievements.