Back the Mrs A back garden and met up with her son as she is still in hospital but on the mend. Still find golf balls, but now we have plant pots, old wooden chairs, garage trolley, broken gold clubs and wheelbarrows. A wheelbarrow can hide another one - found 2 of them : one without a wheel and the other fille with soil and weed!!

Cleared the space and we can now see where the greenhouse was before as slabs and bricks at the original area. We can now see the neighbors garden wall and the garden has loads of space. Still some work to be done, but the garden is clearly in better shape now.

Some of the junior parkrun crew who had met in the morning - and already shared a chatty run, a task and a table in a coffee shop in Acton - decided to stick together for the next session with Care4Calais. Sevan, Steph Ducat and Kash ran 4.5 km from Acton to Hanger Hill to help task owner Tamzin turn unsorted clothes donations into neat parcels with the goods asylum seekers needed most.

The three welcomed Basia to her first group session in Ealing, although she had already had a taste of GoodGym in Richmond. Great to have you with us, Basia, and we hope to see more of you in Ealing!

After a break from Care4Calais in August, when requests for parcels had been rare enough for Tamzin to manage them without our help, we were glad to be back. Tamzin’s dog, Dora, greeted us with vigorous tail-wagging, making it clear that she was just as excited to see us.

Sevan, the most experienced of the group, joined Tamzin to put together men’s clothing packs. The tracksuits bought for the asylum seekers with council funding were anything but vibrant: the jumpers, T-shirts and bottoms were all the same shade of grey. Hopefully, it’s the novelty and comfort of the clothes, rather than their colour, that brightens the recipients’ day.

Meanwhile, Basia, Steph and Kash enjoyed sorting the latest men’s and women’s clothes donations, discovering what curiosities they might find among otherwise sensible and practical outfits. Nothing particularly stood out, apart from a couple of T-shirts bearing some rather rude vocabulary. Perhaps an impressive collection of Lacoste tops?

Four GoodGymers finished the task ahead of time and set out for the next chapter of their Sunday afternoon. An indoor session not only helped the asylum seekers receive appropriate clothing, but also kept the GoodGymers out of the rain during a brief shower.

Four GoodGymers finished the task ahead of time and headed off to the next part of their Sunday afternoon. The indoor task not only helped ensure that asylum seekers received suitable clothing, but also kept the GoodGymers out of the rain during a brief shower.

It has been a while since Goodgym Ealing volunteered at Bixley allotment. Therese and Steph Ducat walked to the allotment while Iram cycled. We then met with Jason who was going to give us some tasks for the afternoon. Changes have been done since Jason is looking after the 2 allotments. The green house disappeared with a lot of the rubbish and a polytunnel has made its place. The pond is still there but the parcels were re arranged and loads of plants have made this there home.

Jason gave us a 1st task of filling the empty buckets with water from the tank - the buckets make it easier to water the plants/vegetables. Then 2nd task was to remove weed but also the overgrown amaranth to avoid all the seeds dropping on the ground and take over this space. We then had 2 wheelbarrows at our disposal to move the unwanted greenery, but then Steph Ducat realised that his one was drunk...yes we all now remember that Bixley has always flats tyres on the wheelbarrows!!! We relocated the snails - out of the vegetable parcel but plenty of green stuff for them. We spotted one of the foxes that live here - can you spot it in the photos?Jason harvested some cucumbers and gave them to the Goodgymers.

Yes Goodgym Ealing is back at Bixley - return of the red crew!!We wioll be back next month - Hasta la vista until next time.

Sunday morning and 4 Goodgymers ran from Ealing Broadway station to Acton park before volunteering with the junior par runners. The overcast and grey weather did not stop them to wizz through the streets of Ealing.

The children at Junior parkruns are all characters in their own right. After the start of the of the new school term, there were a lot of new faces. Some fast, some slower, all with their unique personalities.

The volunteers brought their personalities to the parkrun too, with run director Geoff bringing his Wonky Bear, made from reused parkrun t-shirts, others being more casual than usual and Maria stepping forward to lead the first timers' briefing and today's warm up with Kash supporting.

Maria triple-roled today, also barcode scanning alongside Sevan. Divy funnel managed a well behaved group of runners ahead of Joanna who dished out today's finish tokens. Chris and Steph were marshals and Kash was last to the finish, tail walking again.

Today's final runner was quite stop-start. Their mum tried to motivate them around the course and for a while the prize of getting some jelly babies worked and then mum upped the offer to cake. There was also free motivation all around in the universal Junior parkrun power up of high fives 🖐️. Rather than meeting hand with hand, our Junior chose to rush the outstretched paws with a headbutt and had lots of fun doing it.

A gentle walk along the canal was the start of today's task with HANGOT as our team walk to Osterley Lock, the most southerly orchard created by HANGOT. The walk gave everyone a good chance to chat before putting on their game faces and taking on a GoodGym favourite, wiping out brambles.

The first job was to make the front of the orchard, along the canal, look more inviting by clearing brambles and other weeds away. Keeping the orchards looking well maintained encourages the public to come in and discover the tasty delights and calm spaces inside. The whole team got to work, chopping, hacking and raking, making mincemeat out of brambles and other weeds, transforming the front of the orchard.

With the front of the orchard looking neat and professional, it was onto the priority number 2, to clear weeds and brambles from around each of the fruit trees. All of the cuttings were taking to the bramble graveyard on one side of the orchard. As it overflowed and became harder to climb to the top to add cuttings, so eventually GoodGymers started their own pile on the opposite side of the orchard to provide balance and more simply, to speed things up and not walk as far.

Right on time, the tidying was done, leaving task owner Clive really happy with what the team achieved. As a reward, Dora spied something that looked like a pear on one of HANGOT's trees. It was actually one of those mysterious quinces and it was close to being ripe. Scott wasn't so lucky in finding fruit for his brewing experiments as it had been a lean year for British fruit.

Next month, we'll be back at Osterley Lock, blitzing away brambles and more. Look out for a new listing coming soon.