Act One: Acton

Once upon a time in Acton, there was a cute little greenhouse. It stood peacefully at the site of Berrymede School where children planted and looked after veggies, thanks to Cultivate London, a charity promoting horticultural knowledge and managing the community garden. Too bad for the tiny greenhouse, Cultivate needed a larger one and had B&Q volunteers coming to install it on Friday. Even worse, the greenhouse didn't know, that Cultivate hired a gang of volunteer madmen (and a madwoman) running from Ealing Broadway to get it!

Steph Ducat, Sevan and Kash arrived at the school where they met a chief destructor from Hammersmith, Divya, who cycled to the task. While Sevan was left on the watch and waited for Christos, the other three went to the schoolyard to meet the task owner, Romina, who was already carrying stuff out of the greenhouse. That was the first objective: to move everything out and put it under the roofed area on the other side of the yard.

Act Two: The greenhouse is empty and all the devils are here

The flashes of moving head torches and portable lights disturbed the darkness of the schoolyard. The wheels of trolleys pushed by invisible ghosts were moving fast on the tarmac. Soon, the finally united team of five completed the exodus of toolboxes, shelves, trays with potted plants and other bric-a-brac. Romina was already halfway through unscrewing the screws holding together the greenhouse. She wasted no time - the GoodGymers found a set of hammers, crowbars and a sledgehammer at the front of the building they came to take apart

Now, have fun, guys! Be brutal - Romina

Act Three: Death by Two Hundred Blows

After the crew removed all the plexiglass (no, the hammers were not for breaking the glass), they started leveraging the wooden planks with hammers and taking apart the outer window frames. The greenhouse, now just a skeleton, was ready to face Divya's Thor cosplay.

Divya has reached a smashing number of 200 good deeds today 🎉 and was entitled to wear the GoodGym Ealing special red cape. And guess what! He got the sledgehammer!

Divya deserved a special treat as his milestone gift: the sledgehammer job just for himself! When he swung the hammer and delivered the first blow to the wooden structure, the entire Acton shook! He kept smashing the greenhouse until everything fell apart and no part of it was still standing. He didn't stop there but began crushing the concrete base. Soon, the cute little greenhouse was razed to the ground, and the smallest of debris was swept clean by the rest of the gang.

We haven't taken the before photo. No one will believe that there was ever a greenhouse here!

Such a fun and satisfying task doesn't happen every night. If only five GoodGymers could perform such a spectacle of destruction in such a short time, imagine what would happen if there were ten of us! We could probably easily disassemble the nearby shed that was also sentenced to be obliterated. Even wood-thirsty beasts like us know that sharing is caring, so we left the shed for GoodGym Hounslow. Some of us will make a reappearance at the destruction site tomorrow.

Next week, we are running to Walpole Park for a Halloween special task - sign up now!