Shear me out

After reaching Horsenden Hill, I was waiting for a new GoodGymer to show up. Haven't noticed that they unsigned as I forgot to refresh the page this morning. Then I looked around for Elsa and couldn't find her. I went to the Volunteer hangout area and asked a person, where can I find Elsa.

I'm the Elsa you are looking for

I was thinking of someone else as Elsa all this time. They were having tea before starting the work. I also had a cup of tea. Elsa asked when the other GoodGymers were joining. I replied that I was the only one for now and that another GoodGymer might join later. She planned a task for GoodGymers. But as I'm solo, she asked if I was interested in joining the other volunteers in cleaning & washing the penns or wanted to work solo. I told her I was happy to do either and planned to join the washing team.

Then Elsa thought of something and gave me a side quest before joining the washing team. It's to trim the grass in front of the cafe, as they are planning to install a nice house there. Elsa gave me some shears to start with. She asked me to give them a deep trim as possible. The shears were not cutting but rather smushing the grass. I went and got another shear and got the same result. When I went for the third shear, Dogma, another volunteer, said that the shears were not the right tool for that job and suggested using strimmers.

We both went to the shed to find the strimmers and found that the battery was missing. So I went with Elsa to find the battery in the volunteer building and got that. After 20 minutes of strimming and raking, I left the strimmer and the battery in the same place that I found earlier. Elsa asked me to put the battery in charging. So I had to run back to the volunteer hangout area and did the same.

When I was about to join the washing team, Elsa switched the task again as there were too many hands in the washing team. It's to cut long grass growing near the ponds. It was a satisfying task as the grass made crunchy ASMR noises when cut. I was using shears and loppers. Dogma, whom I met earlier, joined me a few minutes later. She went to the shed and got a scythe and wheel burrow to move the grass weeds.

I thought moving the wheelbarrow might be easier, but it proved to be a challenge on uneven grounds. There was a furrow before the place where we needed to dump the grassweeds. Pushing the wheelbarrow over that was a bit of a challenge and required careful maneuvering.

Dogma was smashing left and right with the scythes and I stuck to raking and dumping them. I looked at the clock and it was 11:59 and I was about to finish the mission and planned to have my lunch. Then I heard a voice saying "Madhan" and found Harvey on the road. Harvey joined us after marshaling at the Andrew Carter Memorial Mile literally at the last minute and then we cut for a few more minutes and decided to eat fresh Pizza.

After that we both parted ways at the Perviale station where I traveled to Islington to fix a TV and Harvey went home to do some DIY at his house.