Good afternoon goodgymmers. Today one intrepid broken legged kiwi (James) and a crap Indian cyclist (me - Mridula) went over to Ms. M's house to help her with her gardening. Ms M is of ill health and cannot enjoy her lovely garden. When we arrived, she let us in and took us to her beautiful back yard and set us off to work.

To my delight she had my favourite tool - an electric strimmer! Well technically it was an electric hedge clipper, but let's chalk it to artistic license because the pun works better. After making James take a bunch of pictures with me looking like Jack Nicholson from the shining (yes it was an axe, and not a chainsaw, but artistic license), we began to work.

James started pulling up some weeds and I went to town on with the strimmer on the weeds. Whilst we did this we talked about many things but mostly I just threw him every stereotype about New Zealand I can think of; whether or not James had a pet dolphin (he didn't), which man he would date (Barack Obama) and which character we would be if we were in Lord of the Rings. He would be Pippin, the one who was always eating, and accidentally alert the orcs to him. I would either be Gimli the comedy dwarf, an orc or Sauron.

James and I have now done three missions together. I thought it was time to make our mission buddy status official through a blood oath. Or at least that is the reason I'm giving for accidentally attempting to stab him with a large branch of brambles. Note to mission newbies, when enthusiastically swinging branches to dump on your mulch pile, try not aim for your mission buddy. They won't want to be your mission buddy anymore. Also try not to get your hair stuck in the brambles. Your mission buddy will laugh at you but then very nicely help you get unstuck when you stand there feeling like a moron. We then proceeded to mulch up what we had dug up, and clear away.

An hour and a half later we were done! There is still more to do, so if you can spare some time in the coming weeks try and pay her a visit and finish what we started. Till next time folks!