A Good Friday visit to Mr G saw me picking up a bumper shopping haul including a new (to me) item on his list: walnut halves. I couldn't find his requested brand but grabbed a couple of bags of an alternative...and hopefully walnuts are walnuts...

The clocks went back and it was a joyfully light evening at The Strand on The Green School. The brighter evenings weren’t the only thing to celebrate though, as our favourite bearded Frenchman Augustin reached his centurion of good deeds and earned his wings (and a shiny new GG top)!

Thirteen is lucky for some, as Claire from the school has an assortment on tasks for the XIII group of GoodGymmers who were out on Wednesday evening.

Group one, made up of Alan, Ariane, Divy, Michelle and Sara went with a hop (well it Easter this weekend), skip (literally) and a jump (into said skip) to the school grounds to help move a load of garden waste into a big skip, which had unfortunately arrived later than planned. Just like the evening sky, Team MAD AS made light work of filling up the big yellow vessel.

The second assembly, consisting of Chris, Florian, Fran and the King of the Wings himself (Gus) were helping in the nursery garden to clear back overgrown ivy, which was taking over the walls and trellises. Once chopped off, the MAD AS gang were around to support with dumping the waste into their skip.

Finally, the third throng of Alana, Breda, Emily and Lucy were on paint duty. Armed with brushes, rollers and pots and trays of fresh ‘school custard yellow’ coloured paint, the awesome foursome got to work covering the rest of the playground walls and starting a second coat from a job started a few weeks back on a previous task.

Gus with his wings wasn’t the only thing flying, as time goes by quickly when you’re having fun. Three tasks completed, it was time two leave one very impressed Claire and make our way to the pub, to celebrate the only way GoodGym Hounslow know - with cake.

Congrats Gus on your achievements. We’ll be back next week at Chiswick House for another episode of GoodGym Hounslow. See you then!