For the first part of Kash and Sevan's mission double header for Ms F was to buy groceries from the local Waitrose before Ms F's favourite cheese sold out for the day. Helping Ms F was a regular, recent mission for Kash while for Sevan, he was last there 18 months ago or more.

The pair split the shopping list based on their specialisms to speed things up. Sevan looked for veggies and fruit while Kash shopped for proteins. The last thing to pick up was the heaviest, the weekly 6 bottles of Buxton water. This time, there were no multipacks on the shelves, so 6 individual bottles were organised into their 2 baskets.

At the cashier, the conveyor belt was playing up. It only had 2 modes, off or fast-and-non-stop. The latter fired the bottles, jars, cartons and packets towards the cashier causing a pile up. She stayed calm and even tried to help the GoodGymers find a cheaper multipack of water. Five minutes later and with the help of 2 other colleagues, a 6 pack was unloaded from a cage... and it didn't scan at the till. It was labelled as "to be sold as singles only" 🤦.

Ms F's groceries were bagged up, including the original single water bottles.

"Did you pack the milk?" - Sevan
"I think so" - Kash

...but it wasn't packed. You can play spot the bottle in the photos as Sevan did in real life. In the conveyor chaos, it had hidden itself behind the till's screen. It was found and went into the carrier bags too, leaving the pair grateful that they'd forget milk not.

Visiting Ms F on a Wednesday night after work, Sevan and Kash smoothly transitioned from a grocery delivery service crew into luggage carriers, ready to transport the lady's treasure chest (yet another sign that she was a pirate) from the top floor down to the basement. Sevan had already done the warm up, carrying six large water bottles upstairs!

The (in)famous, old lift in the building was too small to fit the trunk inside, even if the chest was to go down on its own, so the GoodGymers had to descend six storeys with the oversized box using the stairs. The trunk, containing Ms F's winter outfits, was more clunky to hold than heavy, but wasn't even close to posing a real challenge for the seasoned GoodGymers.

After dropping the chest at the basement, Sevan, Kash and Ms F went back to the fifth floor (Kash for the third time by stairs) to enjoy some water after work.

It's wonderful. There's so much space now! - Ms F exclaimed.

What an impactful night for Ms F it has been!

After a circus-style warm-up, full of jumping into and over bin bag hoops, Conor, Steph, Sevan and Kash ran nearly 4 km from Ealing to North Acton, which GoodGym hadn't visited for a litterpick for a while. The area might have changed dramatically over a couple of years, with its seemingly never-ending supply of new tower blocks, but what had not changed was the supply of litter in the alleyway cutting through North Acton Cemetery. Or maybe it had even grown bigger with the expanding population?

The runners met Maria, who had cycled to North Acton Station from Chiswick after having successfully repaired her bike. Well done! The five dished out council bin bags, litter pickers, hoops and even hi-viz vests to legitimise their litter-picking claims. And be safer in a poorly-lit passage.

The GoodGymers didn't need to travel far to find rubbish, as just within a few metres from the entrance to the alleyway, they collected six bags of litter in under 40 minutes. Apart from an industrial-sized brush that barely fitted a bin sack and some food wrappers, the collection of trash consisted mostly of drink cans and bottles from around the world. If that alleyway had been a bar, it would have served you whatever you wanted - you name it! Stella Artois? Check. Carlsberg? Check. Tyskie? Check. Corona? Check. Smirnoff? Check. Heineken? Check. Glen's? Check. Red Stripe? Check. And so on.

The team opted for depth rather than length of the litter research and cleared the section of the path that probably needed it most, leaving the rest of the passage for another time. Solid impact, everyone!