The Friends of Bromley Town Parks and Gardens<\/a>. Two other volunteers had also come along to help clean up the shore.\u00a0Andrew was the kind of eager, passionate person we need to turn outrage into action, complete with sensible things like hand sanitiser, hi-vis, and health and safety forms. The world needs more people like Andrew.<\/p>\nThree police officers arrived\u00a0as Andrew and I were inflating our paddleboards. I assumed our little mission was about to be shut down\u2014 for\u00a0trespassing, health and safety, or something equally tedious.<\/p>\n
But no. The police were delighted we were going to clean the pond. They were fully supportive.<\/p>\n
I pulled on my wellies, rubber gloves and very important hi-vis vest, then\u00a0paddled out onto one of the rankest, skankiest, mankiest, dankest, smelliest bodies of water I\u2019ve ever had the pleasure of floating on.<\/p>\n
We joked about whether this was a world-first expedition\u2014the first-ever paddleboarding outing on the Bromley duck pond.<\/p>\n
And then we got to work, filling bag after bag with the usual suspects of Lucozade and Coca-Cola bottles, McDonalds\u2019 cups, and the compulsory traffic-cones-lobbed-into-ponds-for-a-laugh.<\/p>\n
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