Ealing

Mission

Blooming Determination: A Gardening pursuit beyond the doorstep

2 GoodGymers made their way to help an isolated older person in Ealing.

  • Kash
  • Madhan
 
Saturday, 15th of July 2023

Report writer: So did you have a mission that I can write the report about?

Madhan: Absolutely

Report writer: What's it about?

Madhan: So, Kash and I decided to volunteer for gardening at Mr.R's house. We were all pumped up, you know?

Report writer: When/where did this happen?

Madhan: 2 pm at Greenford

Report writer: Wait, Kash asked me to write a report about some Himalayan balsam that you guys did this morning which finished around 1 pm. How did you find some time to do this one?

Madhan: Mr.R's house is only 15 minutes walk from the Perivale golf course. So we had a quick Tesco lunch and managed to get takeaway chai from Chaiiwaala before reaching Mr.R's house

Report writer: And what happened when you got there?

Madhan: Well, when we knocked on the door, Mr.R's wife Ms.I totally mistook us for salesmen or just random people bothering her. She quickly closed the door on us.

Report writer: Oh no! That must have been awkward. How did you handle it? Note - I'll add a gif for this one nope

Madhan: We didn't want to give up just like that, so we waited outside patiently for about 10 minutes.

Report writer: That's quite some patience you both had. What happened next? Note - Let's add one more gif

discussion

Madhan: The gif has 3 persons, but we were only two though.

Report writer: Well, you can always write the report by yourself, you know. Just saying..

Guys, keep the report short. You haven't even started writing about the main task - Kash

Madhan: Let's go back to the story... We thought the mission might be canceled. Finally, Ms.I opened the door and asked us why we were still hanging around. We explained that we were from GoodGym and we were there to volunteer for gardening.

Report writer: And what did she say?

Madhan: She felt really sorry about the misunderstanding and immediately apologized. It was a relief to know she realized her mistake.

Report writer: That's good to hear. So, did you guys finally get to do some gardening?

Madhan: Absolutely! After that, we went inside the house, met Mr.R

Report writer: Have you done missions with Mr.R before?

Madhan: No this is the first time for both me and Kash. Mr.R thought the mission was canceled due to the weather. Luckily it didn't rain throughout the whole morning

Report writer: What did you do in the garden? Bramble bashing?

Madhan: Weeding

Report writer: Time for gif

start-weeding

Madhan: Hahaha. I'll laugh another time. Wrong gif

Report writer: There you go

this-one

Madhan: Mr.R planned to make the flower bed a bit wider. So he asked us to remove the blocks and weed along the bed

Report writer: Looks like a simple task.

Madhan: Let me tell you that. Most of the blocks were easy to remove. Ms.I even told us to not risk it and do some other light gardening. But we went ahead and showed Goodgym strength. I loosened the block by using Half moon edger spade.

Report writer: Half moon edger spade! When did you become an expert in gardening tools?

Madhan: 😅 Googled. Okay. Then Kash started removing the weeds using a fork. She had to use her stomping power to get through the tough soil

Report writer: Like this?!

fork

Madhan: 😑 And I was pulling out the roots with the edger spade. After removing tough roots across the bed, we called it a day

Report writer: Okay. I think I got all the info for writing a report. Two reports in a day are quite tiring. I'm going to sleep.

Madhan: Well...

Report writer: Got any title for the report with a pun?? If not no worries I'll find some.

Madhan: Actually, We ran back to West Ealing to do one more...

Report writer: 😤😤😤

Report written by Madhan


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StephDucat
StephDucat
Monday July 17th, 2023 10:37

Where is the ghost writer and who is it ? 😂😂

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