World Cup fever had reached its peak with England’s semi final just hours away, but that meant plenty of time to fit in a good deed before kick off.

We met with tonight’s Manager, Jan from Friends of Turnham Green who gave us a briefing and a tactical run down of the big game and the goals for the evening. There was a trimming and clearing at the edges of the wildflower meadow to be done, litter to be picked, and the plants around the rockery needed a good watering following the wave of warm weather.

Time for kick off. No time to sit on the Spence! Kash and Gus tackled the strimming, whilst Max, Florian, Alan, Michelle and Steph raked up the trimmings, ready to go into one of the big blue Saka’s supported by Lucy. The other rubbish bags were taken on by Breda and Fran, also armed with the infamous Turnham Green tongs, as they Rice-d to defend the area from litter. Emily took it a little bit Eze-r, Pick(ford)ing rubbish and sharing the joys of GoodGym with the locals. Finally, playing up top on his own was Jon and the hose, giving the plants a good old hydration break on the rockery.

Captain Ana called for full time, and we had surely made our Marc (Guehi) to the area. A team photo to mark the occasion was taken, and a shout out to the Birthday Boy Alan, who celebrated a big shiny birthday on Monday. Hopefully a big shiny World Cup trophy coming back to England will also celebrate 60 years soon too!

The green was looking a lot less Messi, and Jan was pleased with the results. All that was left was to get ready for the real kick off at 8PM. Kane we bring it home? COME ON ENGLAND.

UPDATE: We in fact did not bring it home, much to our disappointment and now join our French counterparts in feeling miserable because of 11 grown men kicking a ball around. Euro’s in 2 years anyone?

There were a few regular runners missing at Acton Junior parkrun this morning, which may have something to do with last night's England vs Norway game at the World Cup that finished late. A few tired eyed volunteers were seen with their sunnies on. The children, the parents or maybe both needed a lie in too, so there were only 40 finishers with a huge 19 volunteers!

After Kat led the warm up, the runners made their way around the course with the runner at the front storming away, finishing nearly a minute ahead of second place. They ran past Alan, Michelle, Steph and Sevan who were all marshaling, then through Kat (again) now as funnel manager to Divya scanning barcodes. The only GoodGymer which they wouldn't have noticed was Kash who was tail walking again at the back.

Well done to Kat for coming all the way from Uxbridge early this morning to keep her Community Mission streak going 👏👏👏! If you're as dedicated and motivated as that, we're back at Acton Juniors again next week, so check out which roles still need to filled and check out how to sign up here.