We all met in the darkness, too tired to plot against Westminster so thought we could go for a little run instead!

Andrea and Anne set off 5 minutes before the rest of the pack for a walk / run option up the incline route to the church whilst the rest of us took a spin around Ashley Cross green tonight. In the future we will try and organise any walk / runs in advance, as not all our runners are on Facebook we may look for a special whats app group for walk / runners!

Tonights warm up drills involved a bit of balance! It was a superman move and lunges with a twist to have a go at - lets say we need to work on these a bit more yet but it was a start! Don't forget how important it is to work our trunk area as this holds the rest of our body when we are running and makes us a lot more efficient! A couple of 5 second blasts to keep us warm and then it was up the inclines of Branksome we head!

Onwards to the church and David was busy sweeping away in the church grounds and he was all prepared for us! Three stations with brushes, spades and wheelbarrows it was all ready to go, all we had to do was pile up the barrows high! Or in the words of David, 'Make Safe the way of the Lord' by irreligiously misquoting John the Baptist - His words not mine! But good to ensure all areas are cleared and safe for the church attendees!

The bashing of the spade could be heard clearing as Richard scraped away last few years of leaves and mud into the leaf pile. He made up a team with Elizabeth, Andrea and Katy who all worked there section.

Anne, Robert, Christine (sorry about the damp gloves Christine!) and Sarah worked the side of the church - fortunately there was no frogs founds as it turns out Sarah has a serious phobia of them - ranidaphobia is the correct term according to Dr Google!

Tim, Fiona and Ali worked like troopers however filling 5 huge barrows to the brim!

30 minutes later, all of us were meeting in the mid point so we left David with tools, a giant pile of leaves and a slightly damaged eye sight from all our head torches :)

I hope you all enjoyed the fireworks that I put on for you on route and return!