What a night! There was a lot happening in Hanwell at 18:45 this Saturday. Milly, Mike and Jenni met our task owner June at the William Hobbayne Centre to pick up a few wheelbarows while Kash waited in front of the William Hobbayne Community Gardens. She was about to meet Stuart, also from the William Hobbayne charity, to get access to the gardens. Stuart arrived with his daughter Isabel and opened the gate. At the same time more GoodGymers started arriving. Raj was one of them but he just got injured on his solo run to the task. As much as he was keen to help the Hobbayne charity, he had to admit injuries are better when treated right away. June helped him get home while Madhan, Sevan and Kash waited for the rest of the crew.

As we entered the community gardens, our first sight was a big pile of soil with a HANDS OFF! sign. It was a precious high quality soil that was delivered a couple of weeks ago to the charity as a replacement for the faulty soil that had been sent to the charity before. The new soil was to be transferred into three beds that would enable children to learn about growing vegtables. Yes, those were the same beds Harvey cut the ribbon for at the grand opening in September last year.

We started the shovel, wheelbarrow and rake work under the watchful eye of our supervisor, Isabel, a representative of children who would be using the beds. She stood at the raised bed and assessed whether we distributed the soil evenly. We came up with an efficient system, and eliminated the dodgy wheelbarrow with a flat tyre from our process. Chris, who arrived a bit later, wasn't aware of why one barrow had been put aside, and continued to struggle driving it until someone told him that there are better vehicles out there.

It didn't take too long to fill the furthest bed to the top, so we moved onto the next one. It took us less than an hour to put the soil into two of the beds. Time was up and we felt pretty knackered after that intense upper body workout, so we decided to call it a day. Isabel confirmed we did a good job (phew!), so we didn't feel bad about not filling the third bed. We headed out to a nearby pub with June, Stuart and Isabel to plan the next great endeavour featuring GoodGym x William Hobbayne charity.