I was back at Mrs A to carry on with the back garden as it is massive and its the home to brambles. This week it was mission to carry on behind the garage. Found the usual gold balls and berries, but also found some VHS tapes, some cables, metal poles and Mrs A sons bike from the 80's...on your bike!!!He was surprised I was able to get it out - seems that he will do some DIY on it to try and fix it. Then I started to see the neighbors fence and the end of the garage by the wall. Not only did I find berries, I found grapes along the garage - too early to pick them and eat them...will need to wait a bit to eat the grapes.

Our Sunday chatty runs are normally very early, before Acton Juniors Parkrun. Today was different as we are 7 days from GG Ealing 10th birthday, so after the GG crew volunteered at the Junior Parkrun, we went to Boulangerie Jade for our usual coffee stop before moving on. After a lovely drink, it was time to set off from the Boulangerie on an historical chatty run through parts of Acton and going towards West Ealing. Roughly a 6.5 km run. Three became four as Maria who just got her wings this week decided to fly with Kash, Sevan and Steph Ducat.

Short run to Acton Market place where 3 keys event/tasks are part of GG Ealing : - Pokopia Garden(Pokemon) : newish task with head office and Cultivate London - St Mary's church Acton : tasks with Ealing Repair Cafe in the church - recycling at its beast - Leafleting meeting point to promote several charities in the area of Acton

Then we set off direction of Action Station to stop in front of the Acton Transport Museum where we had some sessions with All Aboard Club who allow young children with autism to build and play with trains. We started originally in Ealing at the Log Cabin.

After this short stop, we set off in the side streets towards Ealing common to stop and observe where we did several tasks of trimming trees that were quite low. Ranger asked us in the past to trim them to make it safer for walkers, runners but also have a clear view of the park when walking.

We could have sat and chatted in the park, but we had better ideas - run in the back streets towards Walpole park, where we help the ranger throughout the year - a lot of wood chipping in winter!! We also did help when there was a photo competition/exposition in the park.

The next 2 stops were close to each other : St Johns Church and the Salvation Army where GG Ealing volunteer with Ealing Soup Kitchen. ESK are there for the homeless : cooking food, giving food parcels, providing clothing, showers, hair cut and also a place for them to be indoors with others. Sessions happen mainly on Friday but we have also Monday, Saturday and Sunday sessions between the 2 locations. The 2 are separate by Dean Gardens which we ran through and of course some of the Goodgymers volunteered here with Cultivate London who focus on the green spaces.

Then it was time to go to our final point : West Ealing Station. This is one of the stations that GG and We Run Ealing have as stop when we do the Ealing Tube station social runs.

Our visit to Acton Juniors this morning was Maria's 101st good deed. She secretly snuck in an under the radar session on Wednesday, when no one was looking to reach the wonderful milestone of century of sessions with GoodGym, earning her 🪽🪽s. As a result, Maria had the honour of wearing the pink GoodGym angel wings at today's task 😇. She's become a GoodGym regular since joining 2 years ago and has been to many different types of tasks, walking and cycling her way all over the borough 👏🙌✨.

Steph and Maria arrived early for the Junior parkrun and helped Marco, today's Run Director, by completing the course check and setting up signs and cones. Rather than describing the course layout to today's runners, Marco told everyone that it was "complicated" at the briefing, but there were marshals - like Steph and Maria - around the course to guide the runners which worked perfectly.

Kash and Sevan avoided those complexities by volunteering in the funnel where they were barcode scanning and timekeeping. Together they logged the 32 runners who completed the course today. It was again noticeably a lot quieter than usual as many people were still away on holiday, so runner numbers are expected to bounce back as the end of the school holidays gets nearer.