Cleaning spills and doing drills

Tonights run commenced with something of a reverent start.

With our start point being so close to the King Power Stadium I felt that it would be a nice thing to do to jog the mile down there to pay our respects to those who tragically lost their lives in the terrible accident last weekend.

We were not alone.

Literally thousands of people had the same idea. I gave the runners a few minutes to view the tributes and pay their own respects. A sobering experience for sure but the outpouring of respect from the people of Leicester and indeed from all around the world is nothing short of amazing.

Respects paid we ran back to The Real Junk Food Project.

Rachel had been held up at work so cycled direct and Mel to was already there. There wasnt too much in the way of tidying this time but the floors certainly needed some attention. Sharon found a particularly grimy corner and set about attacking it with whatever she could find. In the end she resorted to knife to scrape off the offending grease.

Irene was on sweeping duty. In a quest to extend her knowledge of English culture she asked me what the item she was using was actually called. Possibly a mistake to ask a bloke to name a household cleaning item but I did my best.... well its a sort of upright dustpan and brush but I called it a collector, probably not what its called but its used for collecting sweepings.

We also had a laugh about the mouldy grapes with much speculation as to why they were still around and had not been thrown away.

We did our best, gave everyting a good wipe down and swept and mopped the floors.

It was then off to a nearby quiet road for a bit of drill work. Hign Knees, A skips and then hopscotch!

Frank amused us all with his rendition of "bring me sunshine" as he A skipped down the road. Not quite sure I recognised the tune that accompanied the straight leg fast feet drill.

Hopscotch sorted out the range of abilities - Lindsay is obviously expert, I am hopeless and Sharon said she would be fine next time provided she can bring some chalk to mark out the court.!!

With the mercury rapidly falling towards a very low number we returned to base for a final briefing before next week.

Anyone scared of heights said he! - no, came the answer. If you want to unlock the riddle - be here next week.