I've never heard so many tree puns in one night. Which is kind of ironic because we didn't find many trees...

But it was still a good night for a run/stroll and we did find a few trees!!

We split into a few groups:

Charlie, Paul and I had a bit of luck finding two trees (one massive, one little) and one branch on the way to the tree drop-off point.

Catherine, Cat and JC (visiting from GG Greenwich 🥳) did a long route but alas only found a nice statue and a plastic tree :(

James, Clare and James took the hilly route to Sydenham Wells Park. No trees but 6k in the bag 💪

Better luck next year?!

Well done anyway for your combined energy and jogging. See you next week!

Six of us made our way up Anerley Hill tonight (it never gets easier...) to meet James and Teresa at the St Christopher's Hospice charity shop on the Triangle. Once there we sorted and steamed clothes, organised wall art, vacuumed and dusted to make the shop spick and span for Christmas shoppers. A couple of us even picked up our own bargains in the process!

Excellent work on our final group run of the year!

Off to a new task tonight, and we started by talking through our favourite trees or plants - a great variety of pretty ones, unusual ones or just a good reliable hard-to-kill spider plant.

As the charity shop we were headed to was very close by, and it was a chilly night, we valiantly chose to do a little uphill loop to get there, chatting all the way (okay, maybe a little puffing from me, too) and then the lovely downhill bit to reward our warmed-up selves.

Arriving at the shop and greeted by Wendy, we set about some organising, pricing and tidying of donation stock at the shop, getting loads done in the time. We also found some absolute gems there: a vintage Sean-Connery-as-James-Bond model, a very fine selection of fancy coats, and some bargain records.

It was our first visit to this branch of St Christopher's Hospice shops, but we'll definitely be back in the new year.

Last night we had an epic trip to Beckenham Park Care Home. It's a pretty big site and they had lots of space for Christmas decorations!

Me and David met at the Bridge House, we met Cat, Clare and Kelsey en route, spotted the David Bowie ⚡️ before meeting everyone else at the care home.

We'd been assigned three trees to decorate...

LBDouble-Yule

One room was in the cricket-themed bistro. In no time, a classy red and silver themed tree was created. David also added a few select decorations to the rest of the room...

In the second room, Kat did an incredible job, using her knitting skills to untangle a load of fairy lights. Some white feather boas gave the tree a snowy-vibe.

And the final tree was a bit mismatch... with all the leftover decorations.

The care home team provided a few glasses of baileys, very greatful for our help.

We also discovered a Kelsey Way sign. 🙌

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Nice job everyone! 🎄