It was a night of games and puzzles for Ealing and Hounslow GoodGymers. Steph, Sevan, and Kash welcomed Maxime to his first Ealing group run after he walked all the way from Chiswick to Ealing.

The team, lucky to miss the rain, set off for a short run to Walpole Park and entered the green space through the emergency exit (or an emergency entrance?). The four GoodGymers cracked the access codes to the tool store and collected the necessary tools for a task in the Walled Garden.

In the garden, they entered a dark arena of slabs arranged on a woodchip floor like stepping stones. They played hopscotch, hopping across the slabs and collecting woodchip around them. Once that was done, Steph jumped on a compost bin with a shovel and filled several wheelbarrows with the nutritious soil. Sevan dropped the compost loads for Maxime and Kash to level, then embarked on an artistic journey of painting with light.

Meanwhile, Maxime and Kash entered the Thunderdome (a.k.a. fruit cage) that only one man could leave. After fighting with the unsightly cardboard layer by spreading compost on top of it, and being careful not to trample young rhubarb, only one man emerged from the cage: Mad Max(ime).

Before leaving the walled arena, Maxime swept all the slabs clean of compost with a mighty broom. Well done to that relentless Hounslow warrior - we are hoping to see him again soon in Ealing!