James Bond's Library

10 Brave souls met at Papa's last night for one of Lambeth's longer and more challenging runs... The route starts out through crowded Brixton dodging pedestrians, partygoers and people desperate to get home after work, then we zoom over seemingly never ending traffic and pedestrian crossings until we are free and on Effra Road.

Before setting out we found out what everyone wanted to do for a living when they were a child and Adam (aka Godzilla) led out the group with Sam setting a brisk pace. We had meteorologists, investment bankers, teachers and of course mutant lizards in the group and for those who didn't make their dream job happen yet - Chris sagely pointed out there is still time!

Tulse Hill is a lovely place, full of wonderful people and amazing things to do in your spare time, it also has a long - slow - quad burning hill which the group dealt with in quick fashion, the front runners taking a little pause to catch their breath and wait for the poor AA who was bringing up the rear.... I mean acting as back marker (ahem). 😁

Down the other side of the hill we went, a few zigs and zags round the back streets and we were at Access Self Storage to meet Andrea and hear about the gentleman (spy??) who had donated 10+ years' worth of books to GROAD which we had to sort into neat boxes. 🌂 💾

There were books on just about every topic you could imagine but with a strong focus on politics, diplomacy and lots of interesting looking briefing papers.... (James is that you?) 💀

The group packed and stacked furiously all while checking the various covers and sharing thoughts on the topic or the person who might want to read about it. 20 or so boxes later and time was up but with literally thousands of books to get through this task will have to Continue Another Day (😉)

We were out of Access like a shot just after 8pm and speeding our way up the short hill, down the long one and home to base.

Special mention to Sarah and to Tilly who stayed to keep me company and chat at the back until we reached Papa's!