It was our fifth session for Greenford Park Residents Association Community Hall and the fourth one that included transporting bikes. Will those bicycles eventually go away?

We started the journey of transforming the hall's backyard in December last year. Back then, we could not even take a good "before" photo of the space as dozens of bicycles blocked us from entering the area.

It was incredible to see the final step of clearing the bike graveyard today and completing the painting (at least the first coat!) of the second wooden bench that had been buried under the heaps of bikes.

The bicycles belonged to London Bike Hub, a great initiative aiming to restore as many bicycles as possible for the community. They used to store the pre-loved rides and bike parts at the back of GPRA Hall. Now was the time for the association to reclaim the space and start using it for tea parties and outdoor events. Ash, Christos, Sevan, Steph and Kash were there to make that happen. Under the watchful eye of task owner John, they followed his vision of a bike-free space with two renovated orange benches ready to welcome visitors.

After 90 minutes of dismantling two large bike racks, using creative ways to get the wheeled and wheel-less cycles up the hill to their new home, sweeping paving slabs and painting a bench with old, orange-tinted wood protector, the promised land of tea parties has emerged. It was astonishing to see such a clear, spacious yard, especially in comparison to what we had first encountered in December!

We cannot wait to hear from John again about the community activities planned in the garden... or another job to fix the paving slabs - we are not too fussy!

Sunny Saturday morning and 2 usual Goodgymers Penny and Steph Ducat were joined by Mira who ran 5km and new member Ashley for his 1st mission. Small group but very efficient on the day. Elsa welcomed everyone and gave us a task. Todays mission was to wheel barrows with some manure down to the car park and spread a thin layer on the pill of building up green vegetation. Once layer done, time to wheelbarrow woodchip from the bottom of the carpark on top of the manure hill. Seems easy, but the hill was a challenge as uneven, steep and with fresh manure. The 4 goodgymers relayed each other with filling the wheelbarrows, running up the hill and spreading the different layers. Our trainers not smelling nice today and have some different colours added to them. We produced a layer cake style hill. After a group photo, we went to see the new pigs that have been introduce at the farm. Obviously that wanted a belly rub and the dogs also kept following us looking for treats.Then it was time to relax and get food ....pizza for most of us.