Litter Mix in the Park

It really was a litter bit of this and a litter bit of that type of session tonight.

With the new guidelines in place tonight’s session had to have some split vibes... we had The Manic Street Sweepers with me and the Binanarama’s with Sut.

A bit of nostalgia hit in as we met outside our pre Covid Monday night haunt. But alas, the Centre is still closed to the public so our meeting point was on the green.

Our community mission was a litter pick of Salthill park as part of our #GBSeptemberClean and then onto a mini fitness session and then 2km run of the junior parkrun route... told you it was a litter mix of everything tonight.

So who exactly do we have in our girl band The Manic Street Sweepers ?

• Sweep dogg Sandy aka Baggy Smalls
• Tidey Tempah Pam
• Pick Astley Kam
• Kylie Naomi Binogue
• Dusty Jean Springclean and
• Clean Bandit Manjit

We gave ourselves 30 minutes in true Annika style and got to work.

Surprisingly and very pleasingly there were relatively low levels of rubbish bar the infamous alley way... that was litter-alley full of cans.

Job done, we put the pickers away and got ready to show our agile moves.

As agile as a...cheetah

Tonight’s fitness session was based on agility. A pyramid style of 3 exercises for 60 seconds, 45 seconds then 30 seconds. We had in in out outs... star jump toe touches and shuttle runs. Eight minutes later The Manics still looked very sprightly and were raring to go for their junior parkrun.

It’s only two kilometers

With the current course record at 7:15 we had our work cut out. Maybe just maybe Anthony from Binanarama had a chance of coming in close...The Manics were just aiming for the average time of 13:45! And I think we achieved our goal.

50 cent is in the house

Our legend Jean just did her 50th good deed! And in true GG Slough stylee... here is her rap (yes! She might be 86 but she gets the RAP!)

• Yo yo Jean is in the house

• Yeah Jean is in the house

• It’s been a while due to lockdown

• And our Jean has had her showdown

• She’s sick of staying indoors

• But hold up.. she done her laps

• And made her garden a track

• So now it’s time for our Jean

• To get back out and be keen

• Say hold up .. wait a minute..whose that girl?

• It’s Jean

• Yeah yeah its Jean

• It’s Jean

• Yeah yeah it’s Jean

• Yo yo Jean is in the house

• Yeah Jean is in the house

• Fifty goods deeds done and dusted

• She’s not shy from getting busted

• Give her a task and she’ll be there

• With a smile and a laugh and a ‘Ive been there’

• Say hold up ... wait a minute... whose that girl?

• It’s Jean

• Yeah yeah it’s Jean

• It’s Jean

• Yeah yeah it’s Jean

(And just like I won’t give up the day job to become a poet... I definitely won’t be signing a record deal either!)

Thank you Sandy for all the music puns