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2 Goodgymers helped an isolated person in Ealing
Kash
Sevan
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Ealing

Saturday 19th April

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When Kash and Sevan arrived at Mrs H's house for another task, she asked the natural first question for a mission, "How are you?" followed by the last question, "How are you going to get the bins to the front of the house?". Kash and Sevan didn't know what needed to be done yet, so they went to take a look.

Mrs H wanted to reorganise her back garden. The end goal wasn't clear, but there were some wheely bins that would be filled with rubbish, recycling and garden waste. Their usual path to the front of the house was blocked by 2 sofas that Kash, Steph and Sevan moved out of the living room a couple of weeks ago. Sevan thought that a twisty path through the house was possible, so work could get going.

The first job was to create an area for Mrs H's plants at the back of the garden, so 2 tables and some stands needed to be moved there. One of the tables had been used for bird feeding and moving it left some antsy and confused pigeons. They gathered on Mrs H's old greenhouse frame as if it was an aviary. They looked like the menacing crows from The Birds, sitting on the climbing frame. The plan was adapted to add more bird feeders to keep the pigeons happy and that meant that bird attacks were avoided.

With the plant nursery created, all of Mrs H's pots - large and small - were moved to the back of the garden. Empty pots were stacked together and anything broken was thrown away. As items moved around the garden, the GoodGymers started to understand Mrs H's vision, to clear the patio so that she could spend summer sitting on her bench. A quick sweep later, work in the garden was complete. All that was left to do was to weave the wheely bins through the house, which just managed to squeeze through the doorways and gaps.



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