Who?
Bike Europe
Who?
Paul Clewett
Age: 16
Paul can often be found daydreaming about cycling to Spain in the local park Paul Clewett, a St Bonaventure’s VI student along with Matthew Burnett, was the man responsible for the Bike Europe idea. He proposed the idea one Friday night and we haven’t looked back since.
He’s a keen footballer and has played for many high profile clubs including Fulham, Millwall (what was he thinking?) and of course the mighty Morden Baptistas. A hard working, knowledgeable midfielder, he consistently proves himself to be indispensable to the squad’s line-up.
His connection to the Boys’ Brigade and the Swift Youth Group has lasted since the age of 6, when he joined along with Matthew C, into the Robins’ Section. Since then he has been there on Friday nights week in week out to join in the fun and help organise the games. In fact, his refereeing qualifications make him the ideal person for this.
Paul is a regular at our summer camp and also debuted this year, along with the two Matthews, as part of the advance / retreat team. Once again he proved himself to be a hard worker, with good ideas and a sharp wit earning his place on future advance / retreat teams.
Most holidays he’ll be found up and awake at 5am, ready to join Matt C for a hard morning’s work at Brampton Manor School. After such copious amounts of work, cycling to Spain should prove to be a breeze (he’s still training hard though).
As a talented German and Spanish speaker, we’re hoping that he’ll be able to get us out of any trouble while we’re on the continent. His French is almost non-existent but apparently if you speak any language loud enough people will understand so with a choice of three we should be ok!
We do have our reservations about Paul, however – he’s become infamous amongst travellers on the Northern Line by accompanying Simeon and occasionally Matthew in their own (rather loud) a cappella versions of Lily Allen and Shaggy hits, engaging fellow commuters in riveting conversations (in fluent German of course) and generally making packed underground carriages a much more eventful place than they have any right to be.
