An evening walking session to finish off a hundred or so leaflets remaining for distribution to South Ealing residents to tell people about the offer of a volunteer-led Northfields Community Library.

On Sunday morning, four Ealing GoodGymers woke up in an unfamiliar area, likely brought there by the Saturday hailstorm. Their backpacks were full of Northfield Community Library leaflets promoting the activities available in the community centre. Would people (or Munchinks) of that neighbourhood be interested in the library's offer?

The four progressed through the streets that were not even called streets but garths! Apple Garth, Cherry Garth, Plum Garth. How peculiar! The wheelie bins were not black or blue but brown - and they had a Hounslow emblem on them!

Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore.

Not too far away to the South loomed Kew Eye Tower, which meant that the GoodGymers ventured to Brentford! That's exactly where the library wanted to drop their next set of flyers to fight the anti-educational propaganda of the Wicked Witch of the East. The GoodGymers then followed the yellow brick road to spread the word about an Ealing community centre among the Brentford folk.

Three GoodGymers remained in South Ealing after their second Sunday task: woodchipping at the cemetery and decided on one more good deed in the area. Northfields Community Library asked GoodGym for support in letting the South Ealing and Little Ealing residents know what it has to offer. Not only books! The volunteer-led library runs IT courses, hosts Ealing Repair Cafe sessions and holds coffee mornings. The locals should be informed about such a vibrant community hub at their doorstep!

The GoodGymers Steph, Sevan and Kash, after lunch in the sun, spent 75 minutes walking around sunlit South Ealing, posting the Northfields Library leaflets through letterboxes. Since they were a team of few GoodGymers and many leaflets, they followed Sevan's strategy to stick together to one side of a street (left) and follow the road until reaching a junction (then go left). By keeping going left, they'd eventually go right - that way, they finished one of the two high-priority leafletting areas they had started at an earlier group run.

After many steps towards making the library better known (and steps to burn the Italian lunch), Steph set off for a faraway GoodGym community mission. Sevan and Kash, as locals, decided to spend an extra 30 minutes after the official session end, wandering around in the sun - staying at home didn't seem as fun on such a lovely day! Still having leaflets in their hands, they covered the roads North of the South Ealing Cemetery.

For tonight's group run, Northfields Community Library had asked GoodGym Ealing to spread the word about the services they offer to people living in the communities near the library. The first area to engage with was in South Ealing, where the library was keen to attract residents to visit their hub on Northfield Avenue. Little did the GoodGymers know of the adventure and perils that awaited them.

Sevan tried to plot a sensible route through an irregularly shaped estate. As they went from door to door, Ming doorbells were everywhere, a lucrative sideline of Ming the Merciless, who had become tired of being evil and was finally trying to go it kinda straight. The doorbells looked perfectly innocent, however they were actually being monitored by a control freak, who didn't want the GoodGymers nor the library to achieve their goal.

The team were making steady progress when they became aware a villainous pirate called Captain Book, who wanted to keep books and knowledge all to himself. This was the opposite of the library's aim, as they wanted to share knowledge and understanding with everyone. The Captain had seen and heard that GoodGym were coming, so he had put obstacles in their way. Snappy letter boxes and angry dogs were some of the early tests that the team faced and overcame. Kash ran and dodged from house to house, avoiding electric scooters and dangerously overgrown hedges.

Eventually, having overcome all other challenges, they reached Book's final test. Liuba was made to walk the plank... and she survived! Liuba returned with her bundle of flyers, having liberated another house from Book's tyranny. After that success, it was time for the GoodGymers to leave the land that Book controlled. Book's hold over the land was weakened, but there is still more for GoodGym to do to free the residents from his oppression.