Two of our gang, Kate and Harvey ran/walked to the task tonight, bumping into another GoodGymer, Caz, on her way for some light refreshments on a warm evening - luck her! Milly and Mike took a long way round to the entrance, after ending up the wrong side of the fence (there's a message in there!). After collecting tools from Linda at Hanwell School of Boxing, the four set about clearing and weeding. Four?! That should have been five! But where was Chris?! With tales of poorly performing maps, Chris found us at last and joined in.

We toiled and cleared, weeded and pulled up ivy, making the driveway up to the club look so much more presentable. After finishing up, a treat lay in store for us - Linda from the club put the kettle on and rustled up five mugs of steaming hot chocolate. Whilst we sipped, we learned about the history of Hanwell School og Boxing, the reason for its strange opening times, and some of the amazing achievements of the young people who learned the fine art of pugilism there. It's a fantastic community resource and it now has an impressive walkway up to the club.

Roberta and Steph Ducat on to the cleaning shift, joined by a new comer to Goodgym but not unknown as it was Jacquie from Lager Can who we volunteer on other tasks in Ealing. Then we have another fairy 🧚‍♂️ who came along and who has been alone on some tasks at ESK : The Fairies 🧚‍♀️ Emmanuella the whole space with other volunteers and we all left with a spotless Church crypt. The cleaning Fairies exist ..today they were wearing Goodgym tops.

Robertaand Steph Ducat stayed on at the HUB. Roberta went to help serving food in the busy dining area. Steph served food with Mary and Marcy to hungry guests. On the menu today was a bolognese pasta with some extra secret ingredients in the sauce. Vegetarian option for the pasta. As we had some sweet potatoes and coriander as side salad was dished up to go with the pasta dishes. Desserts : popular apple struddle with home made custard. As it was birthdays for 3 of the volunteers there was also extra cakes available(chocolate and a sponge cake). Not to forget some home made cupcakes from one of the volunteers. The guests lived the food 🙌🙌

Sunng Friday Hub : Roberta and Steph Ducat joined forces at ESK. Steph was assigned to the kitchen and Roberta was going to enjoy a new task she hasn't done before. Yes Roberta was at the games and was the Bingo star today. In the kitchen, chopping vegetables, cooking meat pasta, and desserts 🍨

Thursday evening and 5 goodgymers paws-tive(ly) meet at Acton station to then distribute leaflets around the station for the next Reduce and Recycle Hub at Acton Market on the Saturday 4th of May. Fur-tunately the rain stopped and the team walked from house to house for leafletting. As usual, the crew were welcomed or not by the pawdyguards. Who(of) are you? Dogs and cats alert on the goodgymers when approaching the letter boxes. Was it pawsible to deliver all the leaflets without being chased by our furry friends? Alot of dogs barking, luckily from inside but we had some brave cats defending their houses too!! Fur-ocious 4 legged friends and no Goodgymer was hurt during the mission. Appaws for the 5 goodgymers who covered roughly around 3km each and distributed all the leaflets. Pawsome mission!!

Great to catch up with Mr G again. His boiler had been broken for a few days but had just been fixed when I arrived, which seemed to have cheered him up.

In the couple of months since I last shopped for him, his tastes have evolved slightly - his list had several old favourites on it but there was a new pasta bake dish and he now prefers cow’s milk to soya. The supermarket was surprisingly peaceful and I managed to find all the items quite quickly.

We had a good chat about preferred holiday destinations and 1980s Australian TV shows. I even managed to squeeze in a quick tweak to his WhatsApp settings before heading Home and Away.