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📍Horsenden Farm UB6 7PQ
Support the local urban farm and orchard
Sat 9th Aug at 10:00am
Sat 2nd Aug at 4:00pm
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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Dignity, health and hygiene. Enabling people to leave home in clean clothes, not being embarrassed by their appearance.
Read moreSat 2nd Aug at 4:00pm
It will ensure that Mrs G has a comfortable sofa in place to support her mobility, seating posture and safe transfers for the long term to prevent risk around poor balance and falls.
Read moreSun 3rd Aug at 3:30pm
It will enable Miss A to safely get in and out of her hospital bed, she can use this to rest when feeling physically overwhelmed and support her bone density considering the appropriate mattress that will be provided with her bed.
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He will be able to use his belongings.
Read moreWed 30th Jul at 6:30pm
Hounslow Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)
We had perfect conditions for our return visit to Chiswick House last night, which was good news as we had a huge job to do!
The carriageway into the grounds is lined with beautiful plane trees. Fun fact - did you know London Planes can grow to 35 metres and live for several hundred years? Which means they need a bit of care and attention.
We were met with Chris, Chiswick House's gardener, who explained the job was to cut away the shoots from the trees' trunks. Or epicormic growth, if we're being fancy!
We cleared away the clippings and then got to work giving the trees a good pruning, able assisted by Chiswick House's excellent range of dog visitors.
There were some excellent techniques getting as much as humanely possible into the ton bags, and some very professional lopping on display too. Great work everybody!
Next week we're back to do one of our favourite tasks - washing the Turnham Green mural. Fingers crossed the weather is kind to us...
Tue 5th Aug at 6:45pm
Get fit and do good all in one in one of Ealing's fab parks!
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