Mrs P had what looked like a simple problem. There used to be a screw holding the light cover in place on her cooker hood that had dropped somewhere behind the cooker. She'd decided that it was lost, so she had a scavenged collection of screws plus a brand new pack for Holdilocks to use to keep the plastic cover in place.

Holdilocks started with the smallest screw which was too small to stay in the screw hole. He worked his way up through the screw sizes with none of them fitting until he tried the largest one, which was too large to fit in the hole. As there was no "just right" option and the cooker hood was made of sheet metal, Holdilocks decided to use the Holdilocks principle which says:

If the Goldilocks principle doesn't work and there is no "just right", then judiciously try more power to make things hold together

By defining and using his own principle, Holdilocks made the large screw fit by increasing the size of the hole and the hold on the cover became just right.

Say the word 'gazebo' not thrice, not twice, but just once and an army of volunteers will turn to set them up. Clickity-click, three visible holes later, gazebos are up all along Brentford High Street, Brentford lock and along the canal.

Just in time before the crowd comes for the canal festival!

And that's a wrap.

After a successful festival on Saturday, time to pack up the remaining bits.

Bunting, signs, flags, all collected, gazeebos condomed (is that the official term?).

Until next year!

I was meant to come earlier but delayed between previous mission and bus to Brentford due to Hanwell Carnaval etc...met the GG Crew in place and went for a bit of a walk with Maria around the festival. Cutest before 6pm , met with Sam and was given orders with other volunteers to bring down gazebos and fold tables etc. The team noticed that I know how to pack gazebos and also give hugs..see pictures !!!We smashed this and got everything done in less than 2 hours with everything back to base. The gazebos hug became a thing and everyone hug a gazebos. While going ar around, on one stage we heard the song Come together which was appropriate for bringing down all the stands etc....Sam thanked us as it was so smooth and said that the setting up and dowm was the back bone of the festival : the festival would not be smooth with all the volunteers. Happy days and we all went for a cold beer and listen to some music.

With the Brentford Canal Festival in full swing, GoodGym arrived to help the organisers make the day a success. Maria and Sevan had been bunting the streets yesterday and were joined by Manuela who lives nearby. After a safety briefing, all 3 were asked to head towards Brentford Lock.

Maria had very enthusiastically chosen to litterpick along the River Brent to keep the walkways clean and she had a stash of bright orange bags to keep her busy. She cheerily added more steps to her day and found a lost wallet which was handed to the organisers for safe keeping.

Manuela and Sevan were trusted with being traffic controllers. Not for cars, for people. The bridge over Brentford Lock became a bottleneck each year. The stairs up and down were narrow and lots more people than normal were trying to cross it during the festival. Manuela and Sevan picked up some Stop-Go signs from the Canal and River Trust stall and gained a volunteer too as Pat from C&RT joined them.

The controller trio tried one approach. It worked but it was over-complicated, so caused big trouble. It actually made things worse than if they weren't there at all as bridge crossers were slowed down a lot and fewer were crossing, plus everyone was dependent on Sevan. They agreed to simplify and have 2 people controlling traffic, one on each set of stairs. Manuela and Sevan managed the flow of people going up and down their own set of stairs, which worked a lot better and they kept working this way until the end of the session.

"This is much better than last year. That was absolute chaos!" - Bridge Crosser

Big trouble averted.

On a Friday night in Brentford, 4 GoodGymers arrived at the Digital Dock at different times. The departure schedule from the dock meant that they boarded and set sail on different flagships, which took them to parallel buntiverses.

Sevan set sail with 2 other voyagers whose flagship docked at the piazza, next to Sevan's favourite Brentford coffee stop, Flagger & Heart. Their first task was to put 4 lengths of bunting around the perimeter of the piazza. They looked for hooks and eyelets which no longer existed in this buntiverse. Instead, they made creative use of some drain pipes and light fixings to string 2 rainbow lengths between the buildings.

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Kash and Maria's later departure paired them up with another volunteer, Deborah. Their flagship weighed anchor in another buntiverse on the High Street. The GoodGymers were naturally drawn to gazebos that were being erected, but the whole point of a buntiverse is to give GoodGymers endless bunting related tasks. Untangle, put up, take down, retangle, repeat. Perpetual GoodGym fun. Much like the Hotel California, you can flag down a bus, but you can never truly leave. There's only temporary bunting reprieve.

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Sevan's team moved to the Brentford sundial where he learned that in the buntiverse there was no time (or there was no shadow on the sundial, at least). His watch was still working though. The bunting opportunities looked poor here, but Sevan had a vision that no one else could see. Climbing high into a tree, he managed to get the string across a busy path without strangling any of tomorrow's festival goers, eventually, once the bunting was taught enough.

"Story of my life. I thought it was going to go higher then it drooped down." - Volunteer

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Brenda arrived in Kash and Maria's buntiverse where there were also issues with slack lines. Brenda made sure everything was tight and true while Kash and Maria were going up and down ladders, tying knots. As well as ladders, Kash was asked to go over a chicken, which made her do a double take until someone explained that there was a Kentucky Flagged Chicken sign directly in the bunting's path.

Soon after, the GoodGym trio and Deborah reached the end of their line at a bus dock and flagged down a service back to their normal universe.

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Sevan too was close to completing the tasks in his buntiverse. After completing a stretch of bridge bunting, then marking a trail to the local art gallery, he also found himself at a bus dock as a return service appeared.

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Back in the real world, before they headed back to their normal lives, task owner Sam was full of praise for the GoodGym team's efforts:

"If you weren't helping us, we wouldn't have finished at 7. We would have still been here/in the buntiverse for hours more."

For each of the GoodGymers, the buntiverses will keep a hold on them and, when the time is right, will transport them back into worlds that worship fabric triangles.