Team Wandsworth were embracing the January challenge in style with a fantastic group turning up today to transform a nursery 60 minute makeover style. We had a big job on our hands and so we split up to cover the various areas. One team may have landed the inside job but had multiple storeys and a lift to contend with to get their items out of the door. The outside team received an education in nursery life discovering spaces from the mud kitchen to the forest cabin! AstroTurf was rolled out to create a new space and we cleared out a whole host of unwanted and sometimes unexpected things (including the largest rubber deck we have ever seen) to ensure the children had the best play area possible. Once we had done our removals work, it was time to tackle the main event - the sand pit! It felt as large as a long jump pit and the clearance certainly felt like an Olympic effort. We furiously shovelled away and filled all of the bags that we had at our disposal. The bags didn’t always keep up with our ambitions but we ploughed on and filled a whole parking space with all our collected items. Impressive work Team Wandsworth! Well done all and a special shout out to James who achieved his first good deed today!

Acton Junior parkrun's roster was overflowing with volunteers today. So much so that there were 5 (yup, five!) tail walkers who included Kash. She was disappointed that today's Run Director, Joanna, didn't assign her the orange tail walker hi-vis with the leopard's tail. Maybe next time...

Most of the ice around the course had melted by the time the runners got going, so the black ice warning cones, placed during the course check, were redundant. They looked like they were randomly placed for the children to slalom through and dance around. They left marshals Steph and Sevan a bit confused too.

There were more confused people on the course too as 3 adult men showed up after the start and asked if they were late for the start of today's parkrun. They may have been young at heart, but Sevan explained that today's event was for children only and they should head to Gunnersbury Park next Saturday. Not counting the 3 men, 45 other young hearts enjoyed today's free, organised parkrun, whizzing past Harvey who recorded their times and Alan who dished out finish tokens to the happy finishers.

A trash-tastic DIY mission to do a bit of good to our local environment, wherever we may be. Thanks for all those who got out there and battled storm Goretti to get the job done!