Today I've done my tour of Sainsbury's for Mr G in reverse: starting with the paninis (that often get sold out in the evenings) and finishing with cavolo nero and baby potatoes.

Mr G's additional request was to relieve him from another bundle of accumulated coins, which, to his disappointment, even the fellow corner shop owner refused to accept. The till in Sainsbury's wasn't that fussy about the format of the money and swallowed all the coppers and nickels I've thrown into it.

Most of the products' expiry date was strangely 26th August. Is the World's End date set to that day by any chance?

Tuesday evening group run : Freya, Richard and Steph Ducat set off from Bodyline studio to the Willaim Hobbayne Centre on a 3km run to meet Angela and then Jules. June welcomed everyone and we got the tools and cracked on in the courtyard. We normally attacked the weed in the main courtyard area, but this time it was decided we go from the far end towards the courtyard as never have enough light and time to do that section. The team tackled weed, brambles, moss and dead leaves. June was so impressed at the speed we tackled the whole area : aie aie speedy Gonzalez and his friends were present at Hobbayne tonight. We filled 6 bags and even had time to get 6 boxes of old brochures to the bin plus load June's car with 2 boxes and a bag of toys that would be given away tomorrow. Were the Goodgymers in need for speed tonight? Well done to Richard for running 3km as he has just recently started to run.

As I was leading the group run tonight, I dashed to Tesco before to purchase and drop some items at the store food bank which was quite empty. Dash to the store, then dash to the till before running to the meeting point to lead this evenings run.

Each Monday morning, GoodGym helps the South Ealing Food Cupboard volunteers prepare to give away food to the community. Supermarkets and other organisations donate surplus food to prevent it being wasted. Lots of heavy lifting and speedy organisation is required to get a van-load of food ready to be shared!

This week, Iram, Martin and Rebecca were on the case with a special guest appearance from Rebecca’s son, Rufus. He threw himself straight into the action, doing a stellar job organising mountains of HelloFresh bags, recycling cardboard, and bravely tackling the out-of-date oat milk. Future GoodGymer in the making!

It was a bumper haul of fridge produce this week, with a plentiful supply of butter and M&S cheeses to sort through, along with crate upon crate of carrots, potatoes, and green beans. It was definitely a good workout! There were also a load of wasabi peas - not for the faint-hearted!

Another Monday of teamwork, food saved from waste, and a little extra family spirit!

Another session with Care4Calais, but Steph Ducat was the only regular to assist Tamzin. Today we welcomed Sylvia for her 1st Goodgym session. Both Ariane and Maxime are not newbies, but also their 1st session with Care4Calais. Today was not our usual task with preparing clothes with different items and sizes. Tamzin and her husband are having works done in the house, which also includes the different rooms where loads of items are stored and packed once prepared. Our mission was to move all the items from the main storage on the 1st floor to the 2nd floor in order for the contractors to be able to work in those.In one hour with some lifting, moving boxes, bags etc the team with Tamzin and her husband cleared the room. Tamzin was overwelmed and didnt think we would have completed that task so quickly. We all stopped for some water as very hot and dusty due to the works being done in the house. As we still had 1 hour left, Tamzin said lets go to the ware house in Ealing to prepare bags/parcels for the 4pm collection. This was also a first as short road trip!!No singing in the car. Once arrived we started to unload the car and get parcels ready with adding shioes to the ready made bags, but we encounted a small problem. We were missing bags to add the shoes, so Steph Ducat ran to local shops to find bags Tamzin needed...not easy task as they didnt have what we wanted .....so after 3 stores found what we needed. Back at the ware house and the crew cracked on and all the shoes were added, labels added and boxed/bagged by destination ready for thwe 4pm collection. Shoe-t for the stars!

Sunny Sunday morning and 61 children turned up at Pitshanger Junior Parkrun. Still a good amount of children despite it being the holiday season. We were not lacking of volunteers either and you could see yellow hi-vis all around the course from the start to the finish line. Some are undercover : especially 3 of them who were marshals cheering and giving high 5. Who are these undercover marshals? Yes 3 Ealing Goodgymers were undercover!!We also had brand new lanyards!!