This is a story of two tales. One under b _ i g _ _ _u_ and one under the _ h _ _ _ s. Fill in the blanks by reading the story.

The cast

Stephane - An active Ealing goodgym runner who is doing his 10th deed within a few weeks of joining

Laura - Doing her 2nd mission and already covered 2 goodgym areas

Louise - Good gym traveller who traveled from East London and sneaking in a few missions with Ealing before heading off to the Goodgym annual party (with her 500th ?🤞)

Shwetha & Cherry- New additions to goodgym Ealing and doing their 2nd mission

Madhan - An Ealing goodgymer who woke up and walked straight to the task

Get the best foot forward

Laura, Steph, and I were the first to arrive and we've been asked to mark the park with seatings.

1. Go to the location on the map
2. Measure as per the diagram and put the stake
3. Paint the lines using white paint markers
4. Paint the numbers using red paint

Seemed simple when said. But the execution needed careful calculation and coordination.

75 multiplied twice and add thirty squared... Yes, it is approximately 80 - Mark

When marking, we had to calculate the diagonal distance from the sides of the rectangle to ensure we were marking them in a proper shape. There was mild confusion initially when the measuring lines doesn't intersect. We doubted the math and it was a silly mistake of moving the tape in the wrong direction.

High marks

Laura initiated the markings as she carefully strolled down the paint marker across the tape. Steph was leading the marking with another paint marker. Soon Shwetha joined us in the marking process. I was simply rolling and unrolling the tapes and guiding them on what they were already doing. I noticed another red t-shirt near the containers waving the banners. Could it be a goodgymer?, maybe or maybe not, I thought to myself and started taking action shots under the bright sun. It is Louise, who is fixing the banners. She was delayed a bit as the location in the task is pointing to somewhere else, though the address is correct.

Banner and Banter

I felt it was one too many for the marking task and thought of making better use of my time and went running towards Louise under shades, not because the sun was hot. Louise was not a fan of the first pic I took of her holding the banner as it was a banner for the toilet. We then corrected that with a community banner. We couldn't tie the banners to the poles as the threads were a bit short. Helen then gave us a box of old banners and we took out some threads from that and made a bigger thread to ensure the banners are secured to the poles. I noticed a new person joined the Marking group and wondering who that might be.

Louise is doing a double mission with Ealing today and sprinted to Soup kitchen first shift with Fay

Make sure you hit me properly next time - Polly, Hanwell Councilor

I accidentally hit Polly with the banners as we were moving them into the containers. We had 15 minutes left before the task ends. I took some cold water bottles to the marking group and they were doing very good progress

Finish line

It was Cherry who joined the marking group, probably after I joined Louise for the banner task. We had two minutes left and gathered the group for a group photo and I planned to leave. The marking guys are determined to finish the task at hand and decided to spend more time as I waved goodbyes to them.

The markers Steph and Laura went for their second mission of the day for the second shift of Ealing soup kitchen later this afternoon

Arrived early for my 1030am shift and noticed some Ealing soup kitchen volunteers arriving, so took the opportunity to introduce myself. As a grocery delivery arrived at the same time, we took all the crates down the ramp into the building. Got introduced to Angela and everyone was expecting Steph, but a female version which made everyone giggle. I was shown around and then assigned to different tasks before the opening of the kitchen and the food/clothes take away at 1pm. I went from unloading crates to the following tasks such as preparing tables for the eaters later with putting plates of sweet and salty savouries, bananas, salt for the meals , sugar for the hot drinks, rolling napkins with cutlery. Refilled both sugar and salt containers. As the tables in the kitchen were ready, went to sort out boxes, crates in Angela s office and move things around to make space and use what we needed for the shifts. Layed out tables for the clothes to be spread ready for collection. Once opened, I was crowd managing, helping give food bags, clearing tables in the kitchen and meet a lady who was speaking French. As being French myself spoke with her in her native language which made her super happy and smiley. She know wants me back at Ealing soup kitchen. Also cleared boxes and rubbish during the shift with recycling . Stayed a bit later as helped with heavy boxes in the office. Great day at Ealing Soup Kitchen and I have to say there was a great smell in the eating area. Meat with vegetables on the menu with ravioli option for vegetarians. Desert had a choice of peaches with custard or a refeshing watermelon.