The bell has sounded at the Hanwell School of Boxing Charity. The referee being Linda and in the ring we had Good gymers against the vilains(bindweed brambles and branches). The vilains had decided to corner and cover the ropes of the car park, but Linda and the 3 goodgymers would not be counted out and tackled the over growing opponents. After 90 minutes in the ring it was an ultimate decision : knock out given to Goodgym against brambles and Company. Goodgym did not take the dive. The car park alias the ring was looking much better and Linda can get the cars to park against the fence with no issues. Emmanuella was the lucky star as found £10 while fighting the weeds, which we all decided to drop in Linda boxing school charity box. Harvey ran to the mission and found smiley in the ring. Steph Ducat moved a retired frog boxer back to the woodlands as was clearly knocked out.

Two of our gang, Kate and Harvey ran/walked to the task tonight, bumping into another GoodGymer, Caz, on her way for some light refreshments on a warm evening - luck her! Milly and Mike took a long way round to the entrance, after ending up the wrong side of the fence (there's a message in there!). After collecting tools from Linda at Hanwell School of Boxing, the four set about clearing and weeding. Four?! That should have been five! But where was Chris?! With tales of poorly performing maps, Chris found us at last and joined in.

We toiled and cleared, weeded and pulled up ivy, making the driveway up to the club look so much more presentable. After finishing up, a treat lay in store for us - Linda from the club put the kettle on and rustled up five mugs of steaming hot chocolate. Whilst we sipped, we learned about the history of Hanwell School og Boxing, the reason for its strange opening times, and some of the amazing achievements of the young people who learned the fine art of pugilism there. It's a fantastic community resource and it now has an impressive walkway up to the club.