The St.Mellitus church turned into a concert when I was reaching the entrance. Milly sneaked me in via the backdoor. I joined Steph who after running 50k this morning, decided to do 3 GoodGym tasks back to back. That's some hardcore dedication.

Steph was running the Tuck shop with Mary, a William Hobbayne member. Mary was taking the payments, and Steph was serving them the drinks and snacks.

I joined Steph and we were regularly snacking the leftover snacks( Crackers and blue cheese) while serving the drinks/snacks to the younglings/parents who filled the church hall.

Milly on the other hand was serving drinks to the VIP's who were performing tonight. And the band members were ripping the drums and guitar out.

Drinks were the best seller of the day, we ran out of water and soft drinks by the time we closed the tuck shop. Only 8 cans of Diet Coke were left.

And there was a huge queue outside the toilets which happens to be the case throughout the night.

Once we ran out of bottled water, we were serving tap water for some time. Milly and I were running back and forth between the sink and the counter.

It’s rock and roll time and the goodgymers went to support the Hanwell Hootie Music Festival and the Basement Door Youth Charity at the final of the West London Battle of the Bands on 23rd March. Winners will perform at the Hootie on the 11th May.

Emily looking after the VIP section/bar/bands and coordinating in the background with June. Steph Ducat setup the tuck shop and manned it with Mary. Steph helped out with preparing some canapés at the same time. As the battle of the bands started and went on with some mosh pit there was another battle going on at the tuck shop. Who would win the battle and be the best seller? The water bottles, pop drinks , crisps or the chocolate bars. Dr Pepper, diet coke, Fanta or sprite? As teenagers of course it was Dr Pepper who took the lead.

Three goodgymmers helped the hootie set up for the battle of the bands event

We moved chairs

We emptied cars

We set up the tuck shop

We set up the VIP area

Good luck to all the bands!

GoodGym Ealing was ready to come back to Hanwell to help the Hanwell Hootie team sort and organise their storage locker again. We had 10 people which is a good attendance in 2023, we had a special guest, Jenni, and... we had a little challenge.

Our lovely task owner, June, told us in the morning she could no longer attend the session and direct us tonight. However, she did her best to provide us detailed instructions and promised she will give us temporary access codes to the site. Everything started looking a bit shaky when we arrived at the storage place.

How did we get on?

Today five goodgym crew shaved a bit of time off their Saturday to help the local Community volunteers at Hanwell Carnival. They came they saw they took down hessian.

Deconstructed a gazebo, and a bell tent, removed not one but 7 hanwell hootie banners. Racked, stacked and stored everything at the storage unit. Filled and refilled the car for trips.

Thank you to everyone that came and supported this evening and it sure sped up the clear down for the team of volunteers.

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