On a Friday night in Brentford, 4 GoodGymers arrived at the Digital Dock at different times. The departure schedule from the dock meant that they boarded and set sail on different flagships, which took them to parallel buntiverses.

Sevan set sail with 2 other voyagers whose flagship docked at the piazza, next to Sevan's favourite Brentford coffee stop, Flagger & Heart. Their first task was to put 4 lengths of bunting around the perimeter of the piazza. They looked for hooks and eyelets which no longer existed in this buntiverse. Instead, they made creative use of some drain pipes and light fixings to string 2 rainbow lengths between the buildings.

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Kash and Maria's later departure paired them up with another volunteer, Deborah. Their flagship weighed anchor in another buntiverse on the High Street. The GoodGymers were naturally drawn to gazebos that were being erected, but the whole point of a buntiverse is to give GoodGymers endless bunting related tasks. Untangle, put up, take down, retangle, repeat. Perpetual GoodGym fun. Much like the Hotel California, you can flag down a bus, but you can never truly leave. There's only temporary bunting reprieve.

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Sevan's team moved to the Brentford sundial where he learned that in the buntiverse there was no time (or there was no shadow on the sundial, at least). His watch was still working though. The bunting opportunities looked poor here, but Sevan had a vision that no one else could see. Climbing high into a tree, he managed to get the string across a busy path without strangling any of tomorrow's festival goers, eventually, once the bunting was taught enough.

"Story of my life. I thought it was going to go higher then it drooped down." - Volunteer

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Brenda arrived in Kash and Maria's buntiverse where there were also issues with slack lines. Brenda made sure everything was tight and true while Kash and Maria were going up and down ladders, tying knots. As well as ladders, Kash was asked to go over a chicken, which made her do a double take until someone explained that there was a Kentucky Flagged Chicken sign directly in the bunting's path.

Soon after, the GoodGym trio and Deborah reached the end of their line at a bus dock and flagged down a service back to their normal universe.

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Sevan too was close to completing the tasks in his buntiverse. After completing a stretch of bridge bunting, then marking a trail to the local art gallery, he also found himself at a bus dock as a return service appeared.

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Back in the real world, before they headed back to their normal lives, task owner Sam was full of praise for the GoodGym team's efforts:

"If you weren't helping us, we wouldn't have finished at 7. We would have still been here/in the buntiverse for hours more."

For each of the GoodGymers, the buntiverses will keep a hold on them and, when the time is right, will transport them back into worlds that worship fabric triangles.

Are four GoodGymers enough to let 400 Acton households know about a free community day on The Mount in July in an hour? Certainly! But let's start with some context. Action West London received funding to bring local people together, raise awareness of community safety, and connect residents with organisations that can support their wellbeing. To do so, they organised the community day and needed GoodGym's help to spread the word by posting leaflets through letterboxes.

A group of flyering experts, Conor, Steph Ducat, Sevan and Kash, met in Acton near the famed Pokopia Garden to beat the odds and distribute all the leaflets they had received — in 60 minutes or less. Steph and Kash ran from Ealing Broadway, Conor walked to the session, and Sevan even squeezed in an extra evening mission ahead of the group task. What a legend!

For all four, the 3km walking task was exactly what they needed after their workdays to clear their minds. GoodGym took them into a magical world of adventures where, to complete their quest, they had to face a variety of beasts: invisible dogs barking suddenly behind doors, foxes and cats of varying levels of wildness, including tigers and lions. Check the photos if you don't believe me!

The GoodGymers even ventured into space, where Steph handed over leaflets to alien children who were super excited about the prospect of face painting and a bouncy castle at the upcoming event — again, the proof is in the pictures! One hour was enough to get the job done and dusted, and the residents of Derwentwater Rd, Stuart Rd, Newburgh Rd, Chaucer Rd, Spencer Rd, Woodhurst Rd, Shakespeare Rd and Myrtle Rd were informed about the community day — at least those without a "No junk mail" sign on their letterboxes!

If you fancy coming along for a task in Acton on another date, check out one of the fortnightly sessions at the Pokopia Garden. Next Tuesday, we're venturing to Hanger Hill for an evening of citizen science — it's really easy, and anyone can get involved. Check out the session details here.

Jokes and laughs were not what Sevan was expecting from Ms A as she explained how she ended up asking GoodGym for help. She was very chatty and good humoured as she explained that she'd gone from:

1. Being in the military; to
2. Having a back problem; to
3. Having her spinal cord severed while operating on her back; to
4. Finally, years later, developing a serious brain tumour

Despite those setbacks, Ms A went against the grain and was very positive about her situation. She wanted to make the most of her life rather than resigning herself to being disabled and stuck indoors. She realised that others were much worse off than she was.

Ms A's medical conditions meant that she had trouble moving heavy or bulky items and over time, her trusted neighbours who helped her had moved away. This meant that she didn't have anyone to take bags out to the communal bins as Ms A said that the council didn't offer her any support.

When Sevan arrived, he found 12 bags in the hallway filled with packaging and 6 more filled with food waste in the kitchen. They'd slowly built up over a few months. They were all moved outside the flat while Ms A chatted away about her life, her medical conditions and the history of the local area, having lived around Ealing for most of her life.

Once Sevan managed to stop chatting, moving the bags only really took 15 minutes as he took away a few at a time. When Sevan mentioned that he needed to take some photos for the report, it was another chance for Ms A to crack a joke.

"Oh no, everyone will wonder why I drink so much Actimel!"

Luckily the communal bins were empty, so as Sevan filled one all the way to the top with Ms A's 18 bags. This meant that Ms A's Actimel habit was hidden away in the metal container, unable to be seen by others