Plogging: the latest Scandinavian trend to rock your world (According to BBC 3, that is.)

What do you get when you move a Scandinavian trend to a very rainy Kingston? Splogging (or soggy plogging). Aside from standing in a queue and tutting, this was about as British as we could make plogging.

A rather last-minute community mission, we ventured to do good to get the ball rolling for community missions in Kingston. It was a rather rainy route there, and we both spoke about how having a reason to run ensured that we still got out running despite the weather. At our meeting point in not-so-sunny-Surbiton, a YMCA worker remarked how much Samia seemed to be enjoying her post-long-run stretches - and that wasn't even her favourite stretch (although of course the moment that Nicky turned up happened to be when Samia was doing the stretch that she makes very well known to be her favourite stretch at every group run....)

I really am at my happiest when I am doing this stretch.

Looking like we'd been for a dip in the pond, we made our way to Fishponds Park in Surbiton to help clear up the rubbish that seems to have accumulated as a result of lots of people enjoying the open green spaces in Kingston and unfortunately not taking their rubbish home with them. There is a community litter pick scheduled for Saturday, so we gave them a helping hand with a headstart through some plogging. We nattered away whilst getting some squat practice in through the plogging - and realised that every time we stopped to take a photo, one of us seemed to be holding a beer can or wine bottle...

And you know how Kingston is becoming famous for mission-related ducks?!! Well, we found a pond of REAL ducks (no rotating heads or water fountains coming out of their heads, thank goodness!).

And a slight confession: it was more like Slalking (Soggy picking up litter whilst walking) - but we did go for a run together afterwards!