Today, Luis and I returned to visit Ms H and help her out in the garden. We got to work clearing the garden path and cutting back a shrub that had started to grow over the neighbour’s fence. Ms H made us tea and biscuits, which we enjoyed during a little break. While we sat in Ms H’s conservatory and Luis worked extra hard not to nod off in the warm autumn sunshine we chatted about and some of our favourite places to travel. Ms H had travelled to so many wonderful places with her late husband and it was lovely to hear her memories of their adventures. We had such a nice time we forgot to take any before or after photos so here’s a photo of the biscuits Ms H likes to offer when Goodgymers visit.

Shopping for Mr K featuring ready meals

Last night featured a collab with This Girl Can to highlight the #Lift the Curfew campaign, a mega skip challenge, and GG Hounslow becoming a media sensation - all in one evening! You can't say we don't pack it in at GoodGym sessions.

Our task was at Strand on the Green school, where the plan is to create a safe pathway from the tarmac to the field for the children. To do this the caretaker needed to clear a lot of unwanted items into a hired skip. This is where we came in!

First, we met at the gates of the school with Jasmira, from Sport England. She gave us an introduction to the Lift the Curfew initiative, which aims to raise awareness about the safety issues women face when getting active in darker months and to help reduce the barriers to exercising. This is something that we definitely support, as

Everybody has the right to run

Jasmira was there to take some footage of us hard at work - so we got to work! There was loads to shift, from heavy wooden structures, to plastic fencing, weird massive hanging baskets and even a traffic cone (a nice reminder of our student days. You can see it perched atop the skip in the photos!)

It was quite the workout, but when the skip was eventually filled we still had just a little bit more energy left for our fitness session. This week it was Halloween themed, packed with silly spooky moves but still guaranteed to work all the major muscle groups!

Shout out to Luis, Emily and Lucy who put in star turns in front of the camera. Can't wait to hear your wise words go viral.

We've got a couple of lovely missions coming up - can you help?

• On Saturday 15th November we're off to do a massive bulb planting challenge at Chiswick House

• On Saturday 22nd November we have the opportunity to help out at the field where Bend it like Beckham was filmed with an exciting task trimming and maintaining a 100 metre hedge!

I arrived at Mrs Z and prepared my translation tool to Urdu as mentioned in the mission guidance, but when the door was opened her daughter had come to welcome me and opened the side door the back garden. So no Urdu lesson for me today - maybe next time. Once in the garden I had a look as we were not sure what needed to be done, but we figured it out with her daughter. I needed to mow the grass, get rid of brambles and one section along the wall needed weeding and getting rid of unwanted items. I found the mower, but no power or extension lead. Mrs Z went on the hunt for an extension lead and came back with several small ones connected one to the other, but it would not reach the section of grass and not safe. So extension on extension was not the solution and told Mrs Z daughter we need a long extension on a roller to reach the grass and avoid it tripping. Once sorted, I cut the grass, got rid of the brambles and cleared the back section of the garden plus the plant beds along the wall. I collected 2 bags of greenery and as her house is along a street seems that people through rubbish over the wall. I collected rubbish and broken bottles from the garden.

This morning, after emailing part of the Oyster Junior parkrun team, I realised I actually wasn’t on the roster! Still, I decided to go along anyway .The Run Director usually finds something useful for extra volunteers to do.

I arrived early and took a short stroll to enjoy the beautiful autumn colours around the park. When I spoke to the Run Director, she admitted she’d had a busy week and had simply forgotten to add me to the roster. I helped her set up the course with cones and, as it turned out, I ended up being the tail walker since the volunteer who was supposed to do it wasn’t feeling well.

During the event, one young girl decided to stop partway through, and a little boy tried to take a shortcut to rejoin his friend — just the kind of small adventures that make every junior parkrun morning memorable! In the end, 53 junior runners successfully completed the course.

Shopping for Mr K including bin liners