Goalmouth Bramble!

Mondays group run took us back to AFC Youth Zone ar Heatham House in Twickenham. After a warm-up led by Sam (needed today in this wind) and a cheeky birthday cheers to Liz (who turned 21 the day before), we set off for the 3k jog to the youth centre.

Just like ABC, we met Adam, Beth and Chris at the task and were supplied with choppers, a saw and the largest black bin bags known to mankind (seriously, like tents). Our job tonight was to help clear some of the overgrowth that was taking over around the outsides of the AstroTurf football pitch and starting to encroach the playing field.

Sam, Chris and Beth took on some big bad brambles; Liz, Monika and Lucy did a vine job fighting back the creepers around the back of the pitch; Adam wasn’t waste-ing anytime and helped pick up litter and clear the green waste we were making; and JP and Africa were in a right goalmouth bramble, sorry, scramble - chopping down the thorns that were trying to score an own goal. Liz even found a few lost footballs hiding in the behind-goal jungle, and JP and Lucy had balls of another kind playing up - small little sticky plant-based ones all over backs, bums and gloves! All of this whilst the kids were playing 5 a side!

An hour or so later, we had made a huge impact (a little like Garnacho at Man U) but there was still a lot more to do. The full time whistle blew and we had to head back home… but watch the space for the second leg of this hotly anticipated feature.