Discover Welling does a fantastic job helping to make the town a nicer place to live, and we were happy to lend a hand this evening, giving some TLC to the planters on the High Street and clearing leaves and litter from around the area.

While some of us tackled the prickly thistles that had taken hold in one of the flower beds, others blitzed the litter and gathered up fallen leaves.

Then it was time to get planting! Lots of daffodil bulbs were carefully dug in, ready to bring a lovely splash of yellow to the High Street next spring. 🌼

Once the tools were packed away, we enjoyed the tasty Jaffa Cake cookies that have been the talk of recent tasks. They certainly lived up to the hype! 🍪 Thank you, Alice!

Three of us then headed to the nearby pub for a bit of socialising and to round off a productive evening together. 🍻

A great evening of teamwork, gardening, tidying and community spirit.

It's not often that GoodGym is asked to go out and look for fairies, but there's a first for everything!

Discover Welling had invited us to test their augmented virtual reality trails, created using a new app called Love Exploring.

As an 'anytime task' GoodGymers could do it as and when they wanted, before the deadline.

Kam was the first to give it a go, finding a few virtual reality tree fairies 🧚‍♀️, then giving feedback to Discover Welling via an online form.

The rest of us decided to meet up and try the trails together. Between us we found not only VR tree fairies, but various VR bugs too, including a giant - and rather scary - ladybird 🐞.

We loved the concept but the Love Exploring app had quite a few bugs of its own that need to be ironed out so that Discover Welling's creativity can shine though.

Today's Danson House Producers Market had a distinctly superhero feel as we teamed up to help run Discover Welling's retro fairground games stall.

With the classic Leap Frog and Roll-A-Ball games, we encouraged market-goers of all ages to test their skills while raising funds for a great cause.

The stall attracted plenty of attention, helped in no small part by a visit from Spider-Man himself!

There were smiles, near misses, and a few spectacular victories as players embraced the challenge. As Spider-Man says, "Anyone can win a fight when the odds are easy", but propelling that frog onto the lily pad proved a little trickier!

Money raised from the games will support Welling's Christmas lights and Discover Welling's other community projects that help make the town a brighter, more welcoming place to live.

We had fun spinning a web of laughter and helping to ensure that, with great community spirit, great things can happen in Welling.

We were out at the Community Fun Day in East Wickham, helping Discover Welling with their stalls. The team got stuck into running the fairground games, encouraging visitors to have a go, cheering them on, and politely pretending that some of the throws were, “very close indeed”. There was plenty of laughter and a good bit of friendly competition.

Alongside the games, we were busy chatting to residents, families and visitors throughout the day. It was a brilliant chance to be part of a local event that brought people together, raised smiles, and proved once again that no British summer fayre is complete without someone desperately asking their parents, “Can I have another go?”

Most importantly, the day helped raise money for Discover Welling and promoted other fantastic charities, including The KITE Foundation and Diabetes UK. So every game played, every pound donated, and every heroic attempt at winning contributed to some brilliant causes.

A huge well done to everyone involved in organising the day and making East Wickham feel even more community spirited than usual. GoodGym came, helped, laughed, and left with the warm glow of doing good, plus a renewed respect for anyone who can actually win one of those games on the first try!

This was a community mission in two parts - GoodGym were litter picking, whilst students from a local school were putting up bunting.

Both groups enjoyed themselves, knowing they were preparing the area for the coming community fun day the next day.

The students with the support of members of staff put up bunting all the way round the fun day area, whilst GoodGym volunteers got to work with picking up litter from the green.

We left the area looking its best ready for the next day when it would be transformed into a place of community fun.

The grand finale of Discover Welling's Tour of Welling saw us hitting the high street for a litter hunt.

Our Fab Four met up with the Discover Welling team, staff from McDonald's and two local residents, then headed off in different directions to tackle hotspot areas where rubbish had collected.

In a moment of chance Khai was passing on the bus and spotted our GG red tops, so he hopped off and joined us for a bonus task credit. That's the power of GoodGym, and we unexpectedly the Fab Five!

You never know what you'll find on a litter pick, but a lonely baby's dummy 👶 provided useful inspiration for this report's title!

After an hour we piled up the filled bin bags and posed for the traditional group photo, just before the rain started. Perfect timing for us all to head home - with Khai getting back on the bus - after a job well done.

So that's a wrap for out part in the year's Great British Spring Clean. Same next year? Count us in!