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47 Month Streak
44 Month Streak
Ealing
📍91 Grand Union Canal Walk UB2 4LP
Enjoy the outdoors by the canal. Outdoors helps your mental health.
Sat 20th Sep at 10:00am
Help create an accessible green space that will provide food, horticulture and leisure for the community
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Support the local urban farm and orchard
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Support the local urban farm and orchard
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Ealing Report written by Sevan
Kash and Sevan did a double take when they stepped into Mrs G's living room. There were 2 sofas... 2 identical sofas ✌️, that needed to be swapped around. Mrs G and her daughter explained that Mrs G had been sitting and sleeping on one of them for many years and the foam was worn out, leaving a big dip in the seat. Switching the sofas would refresh Mrs G's favourite place to sit.
The sofas were offset along the length of the room and facing each other, so they'd both need to be moved and spun around as well to face the right way in their new positions. After all other furniture was cleared out of the way, the first sofa was spun on the ground 🔄 and pushed to the back of the room, sitting in front of its partner. Sofa 2 was squeezed past the first into the now empty space, tilted up to the ceiling and pivoted on its end 🔃.
With both sofas facing the right way in the right parts of the room, they were each pushed back into the indents in the carpet left by their twin. Easy peasy.
Sat 2nd Aug at 10:00am
The first day of August brought a pretty solid team to Horsenden Farm, including a wave of new joiners: Rene, Laxmi, and Mairaj. Welcome to GoodGym Ealing - we hope you enjoyed your first task!
Worked on tasks, got along really well, supportive people all around, will attend more sessions. Very helpful and friendly team. - summarised Mairaj in his report
Elsa equipped us with wheelbarrows, shears, loppers, rakes, and even a slasher (which Steph Ducat quickly booked), then led us up Horsenden Hill to a place called Wells Meadows. The meadow was recently scythed, but it has not been raked yet. There was also a corner covered by a huge patch of brambles that, despite bearing delicious, ripe blackberries at that time of the year, were still considered undesirable plants. Our job was to clear the area so that Friends of Horsenden Hill could create a wildflower meadow.
Jamie’s and Gus’s cunning plan included cutting and eating their way to the most juicy blackberries. They found plenty of allies in their war against brambles: Ramona, Sevan, Steph, and, later on, Mairaj. Raking - which turned out to be more of a cardio workout than many may have expected - was handled mostly by Rene and Kash. Laxmi became a jack of all trades, raking, harvesting blackberries, and chopping brambles.
The session at Horsenden couldn’t be considered complete without bringing to life the slogan animals 🐮 + pizza 🍕 + craft beer 🍺. Even though we must admit that animals were hiding today, the GoodGymers didn’t have trouble finding the beer stall and the pizza oven.
What have the new GoodGymers learned today?
We are back at Horsenden Farm next month, hoping for more animals, more new faces, and fewer scratches! Sign up now!
Sun 3rd Aug at 2:45pm
It would significantly improve Mr R's well being.
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Support an Ealing steelband behind the scenes after Notting Hill Carnival
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Help an Ealing steelband shine at Notting Hill Carnival
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