After a sonic-speed run to volunteer at the junior parkrun, Steph and Kash swapped their morning coffee (well, Kash did - Steph already had time for two of them!) for a walk to a mission in East Acton.

They were off to help Miss G tackle her neglected front and back gardens to make a positive impact on her mental health. The back garden was a priority, with brambles all over, and a massive fridge and some chairs thrown in the middle.

Seating on the thrones of thorns didn't seem like a good impact on anyone's wellbeing or backsides, so Steph removed the chairs, then put on his mighty bramble gloves to pack away the spiky cuttings Kash was about to produce. Kash grabbed the only pair of shears the two had found at the time and started chopping.

The onslaught on the brambles uncovered a mower, a boomerang (?), a fridge that could fit a human or two (no Harrison Ford found inside) and the only plant that was supposed to grow in the garden. The GoodGymers then raked all the cuttings and bagged them into black sacks.

The back garden looked transformed, and the pair still had half an hour to spare. Steph and Kash faced a big decision: should they make a visible difference in the front garden now, or make the transformation at the back more sustainable? You see, the brambles might have been cut to the ground, but their roots remained, which guaranteed new growth over the warmer months. The GoodGymers refused the temptation of easy front garden wins and opted for doing one job properly. They stayed in the back garden and dug out all the bramble roots they could reach.

Miss G came out to see the result of their 90-minute exploits and was utterly shocked by the change.

Gosh! It looks like a different place! - Miss G.

She couldn't believe what a duo of dedicated GoodGymers could achieve in such a short time and said "gosh!" and "thank you" at least ten times more. Steph and Kash made Miss G very happy, but also left some fun for another GoodGym team to tackle the front garden, hoping that their successors would spend the following mission doing an equally proper job as they had strived to do!