While at South Ealing Food Cupboard, Sevan wandered over to see the "one of your lot" who was busy in the church garden. It turned out it wasn't a GoodGymer at all, but Cliff, the gardener and task owner at St Mary's churchyard who was wearing a red Nike t-shirt. Since the last time GoodGym had visited, spring and a lack of volunteers had caused the weeds to shoot up to the height of the old graves or "monuments" as they were called, so he was trying to reign them back in.

Sevan was wearing totally inappropriate footwear to go gardening, but he said that he'd be back to give Cliff a hand once the Food Cupboard was set up. Sevan did return and grabbed a fork and gloves, spending 30 minutes pulling cleavers - a.k.a. sticky willy - which were everywhere and digging out nettles and blue alkanet. By midday, there was a small oasis of brown soil appearing in the sea of green weeds. Looking across the churchyard there was still a lot of green, so there is plenty more work to do to prepare the church garden for the arrival of a new vicar in August.