What wonderful weather today for us 6 goodgymers return to Jubiliee River Centre.

Ladies in red were HOT HOT on cleaning those canoes, could even see your reflection, Roisin and Kam wanted to take the back end of the canoe of course we had no objection.

Pam, Sandy and Sutyee took front whilst Edward gave instructions on how to paddle.

We covered a lot of distance even needed the rope to help us get back to land.

AJ is Eds brother loves photos I think another signed up please Ed.

Happy Easter!!!!

Great to be back with Jubilee Riverside Centre what a boot -i - ful day.

Shout out toEdward on his third Community Task., just don't give Ed the responsibilities of looking after any set of KEYS just let him SWAN around....

Jenni, Emily and Sutyee cracked on with cleaning the Oars and Canoes, whilst waiting for the steamer to arrive we decided a trip to Mc Donalds for a coffee was needed, after our caffeine shot we were re charged and ready to steam the canoes and wipe clean.

Pam literally cleared the whole car park, Pam you missed out on the Spring steam clean.

We were back with our friends at the Jubilee Riverside Centre Slough for a pretty oarsome task this weekend, which saw us split into three teams. One group tackled weeding and gardening outside the centre's entrance, another were litter picking along the riverbank, and a third were in kayaks collecting rubbish which had made its way into the water.

The day was also a call for a bit of celebration too. Firstly we congratulated Jenny for reaching her 50 good deeds milestone - which is particularly impressive as she only joined us in February and for many months was notching up her deeds during lockdown.

Secondly we welcome Brenda, who is fellow GoodGymer Jen's mum, to our GG Slough family. It was great to have her with us for her first-ever task, and to meet the wonderful mother of a much-valued member of our team.

The morning felt more like a fun day out than a hard task, despite us proving every litter bit helps as we collected eight bags of rubbish, which was mainly made up of beer cans! We also recovered a shopping trolley from the river itself in a strategic and co-ordinated effort which involved the teams in the water and along the riverbank working together to get the cart out of there safely and securely.

If that wasn't enough, cannoe believe it, we also managed to collect a dinghy full of rubbish out of the river itself!

A fantastic day was had by all, as the end result saw a cleaner river and its nearby paths free from rubbish, the centre's garden beds weeded and neatened up - with Jen making light work of cutting back an overgrown tree, and the chance for us big kids to get back out onto the water, brush up on our kayaking skills and have the odd race too!

It was a scorching hot morning when we met task owner Jamie at the boat yard, so a quick squirt of sun cream and hand sanitiser, tools selected and away we went.

As there were only two of us it was easy to split the area between us. @Sandy to the right (Starboard) and me (@Jen) to the left (Port). We both dug into the clearing the weeds from the front of the (show)boats so that they were more visible. Jen then saw the sharp toothed cutting implement (or saw by any other name) and decided to make a start on chopping back the extremely overgrown tree that dwarfed her. It wasn't a fluke that this gave her shade from the searing sun. We really would have loved to stay and finish the tree but it was time to take a bow, fill the bin and head off un-tiller next time.

Never mind the bluepeter it was red (faced) Jen by the end of the hour, it didn't stop her blackberry picking on her walk home though . Hope yawl enjoy reading this!

A SER-iously dedicated bunch of GoodGym runners turned up on a sunny Saturday to give the Riverside Boatyard a good old tidy up.

Sut, Emily, Roisin and Ruth were antsy to get to work with their tools to finish up a task which was started last week.

On the way in from the car park Emily couldn't help but notice some idiots had overturned the bin and spilled rubbish everywhere. This was attracting foxes, as evidenced by their teeny footprints all over the side of the bin!

Litter picker in hand, she made short work of the mess and it was clean as could be in no time - all disposed of in the big blue bin. If only people would follow the sign's instructions - don't be a tosser!

Roisin was unstoppable - she got stuck in straight away and was a lean, mean, weeding machine. She did an amazing job of clearing the weeds from behind the boats.

With garden shears in hand, Super Sut was on a mission to cut back all the spiky greenery poking through the fence into the boatyard to make the place look nice and smart again.

Ruth also got to work with her trowel to dig up all the weeds, ducking under the boats to clear behind there too.

There was no show-boating in this task - everyone worked together for the benefit of the people of Slough who use this impressive facility.

Join us on Saturday 1 August at 10.30am for a task outside the boatyard.

Today we had one of our favourite tasks with Jamie at the Riverside Centre on the river.

Sara, Roisin, Sut and Milly joined for the task of clearing the overgrown weeds from the boatyard. which had been reaching for the stars since the boatyard has been out of use....

• Sara sussed it and bent the knee • Sut smashed those weeds • Roisin revelled in the clearing • Milly messed about with the trowel

Roisin is most certainly a gardener in my eyes as she was speedy as ever!

Thank you to Jamie for having us, we may need to return soon as there was more than WEED could do.

See you soon and take care,