After a second community mission, I was on the mow-ve to a mission at Ms N house. Front garden to be mowed, but no mower in site so had to do with the tools available. Shears, a strimmer and a rack did the business. Thick grass so the strimmer was not going to do the job, so a bit of strimming then pure shear power and racking. 90 minutes and the front garden looked much better and 2 full big greens bags appeared from nowhere - full of grass and weed!!Then it was time to leave Ms N and mow-ve again..back home this time.

Shopping for Mr K, this time featuring cream cleaner

At GoodGym Hounslow we're very much in touch with our wild side! Last week we had a brush with a hedgehog, and this week our star turn was a very friendly cat who was keen to become our latest member...

We turned up to Harvard Hill to help the Friends organisation there with several gardening jobs. We were greeted by Marie-Claire who had invested in some shiny new tools. We were given instructions on the tasks to be done - mostly weeding and some work on the raised beds. Unfortunately it was about then that the cat made an appearance and we got somewhat distracted!

After a bit of kitten around, we got down to some serious work. While the weeding was being done, and the fox poo mostly avoided, Steph and Michelle shifted the mulch to the raised beds. In a lovely full circle mulch moment, we discovered that the nutrient-dense bags of it we were spreading were actually from Cultivate, a regularly task for us. They were full of the very same mulch we has ourselves packed up over the past two years at Acton School! It was very satisfying to put the end product to good use.

By now we were feline pretty fine with all the work we had got done, so it was time for a fitness session. Meow you're talking! It was all about the glutes last night, and we had several butt-tastic exercises designed to fire up this major muscle group. There was plenty of singing to go along with each move, with the themes from Rocky and Flashdance featuring at full volume.

Don't fur-get to sign up for next week's run to help out at Strand on the green - who knows what our next animal sighting will be!

ps apologies no photos as yet as the website is not letting me upload them - please chack back later!

We came in with Steph having in mind this would be a light job with some lawn mowing. It turns our the lawn was already mowed, unveiling a huge work to turn around the garden that had be left alone for quite some time now. For starters, the whole area was full of dead figs which dropped from a large fig tree in the middle. We had our valiant companion dog helping grab a few figs, though he promptly gave up the task to follow his master back inside. Left to our own devices, we got at it, moving around some garbage bags based on Steph's idea to clear out the planting area. I made sure the back garden was clean and fig free while Steph ensured the front was neat. With the 2 of us we managed to completely remove all weed and overgrown grass. Trim the fig tree. Move around bags to a corner to make some space. Now Ms B can full enjoy the garden and maybe plan some more seeds! She was astonished by how much work was done in 90 minutes. Sometimes we forget but a lot can get done indeed!

Racing celebrations, a huge task under the light of a beautiful moon, and a star turn from a rarely spotted inhabitant of Chiswick House made for a great Wednesday night at GoodGym Hounslow!

Thanks to Michelle for leading the warm up, before we kicked off the evening with a short run to our regular task. We were fresh off the back of some great races at the weekend - a huge well done to Chris, Tish, Matt, Eloise and Steph for a fantastic run at the Vitality 10km, and to Alan and Florian for smashing the Ealing Half!

We arrived at a secret door to meet Chiswick House gardener Chris, who took us to a new spot or the group - the bee hives. The bees produce honey which is sold in the shop to raise money for the charity, and they want to make the area more accessible for school kids. Enter GoodGym!

The aim of the game was to remove all the undergrowth and anything else that was getting in the way. Everything had to go to create a new pathway, and with the green flag from Chris to adopt a scorched earth policy, we got to work!

We pulled, lopped and cleared, slowly but surely revealing a large area of land. Half way through the task, our mystery guest made an appearance - well done to Ariane for safely uncovering and rehoming a gorgeous hedgehog! He was in very safe hands, and was soon happily snuffling his way back to the woods.

By the end the task the area was truly transformed, great work everybody. We ran and walked back to base, where there was the option of a static core workout using the benches by the rockery. We worked our obliques, lower back and abs with a series of (slightly damp) exercises.

Next week we're off to Harvard Hill for some more gardening - please bring headtorches if you have them as this is a dark task.

A rapid 3 minute mission for Kash and Sevan this afternoon. All they had to do was:

1. Turn Up: Find their was through the maze of Mr R's block of flats to find his front door. Once in Mr R's bedroom, they found an undressed bed topped by a single mattress with sturdy handles. Perfect 👌
2. Flip In: 10 seconds later the mattress top was on the bottom and bottom on top, leaving Mr R very happy. He was too frail to do this himself and said he'd be back in touch in 6 months for the reverse flip operation.
3. Step Out: Then it was time to step out and onto the next task. Southall for Kash and Hammersmith for Sevan 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

In all, taking the photos took longer than moving the mattress.