Today's task was to sand down and paint two wooden panels on one of the outbuildings at The Lawns Nursery School. Everything we needed was laid out beautifully for us, so we set to work sanding down the peeling paint whilst Jen accompanied us on the outdoor xylophone. We missed having any of the taller GoodGymers with us, so we improvised by using some of the outdoor play equipment as steps to reach the top of the panels. We were soon onto the painting stage, and before long the panels were a beautiful shade of green - much improved! After quick clear-up, Juli resisted the temptation of a workout on the play equipment, and we made our way home

Huge kudos to the team of hardy GoodGymers who joined me on this evening's session! We were meant to be painting at the Lawns Nursery School, but our task was rained off, so we opted for a litter pick instead.

Thanks to Councillor Helen Price for suggesting where we should focus our efforts. Thanks to Steve for walk-leading me, Sophie and Jess down Smiths Lane and thanks to Sula and Nic, who led Sheila and Georgeta down Vale Road and the Maidenhead Road. We converged around Sawyer's Close, where we agreed bags were getting very heavy, fingers and toes were freezing and it was time to head back.

Back at the car park Sheila rewarded us with some wonderful homemade raspberry muffins. It was too cold to linger and enjoy them together so we took them home with us. I'm munching my second now as I type. Thanks Sheila!

In summary, the weather was rubbish, the task was litter-ally rubbish, but it was muffin we couldn't handle.

As the government announced the end of their Plan B, we were just embarking on ours. Our planned trip to the Lawns Nursery needed to be postponed due to staff shortages, so we diverted our energy into a torchlit litter pick instead.

A very warm welcome to Nic, who joined us for her first session, despite the chilly weather and last minute uncertainty around what we would be doing. It was also great to welcome Fiona back for her second session and to catch up with regulars Sophie, Jess, Georgeta and Steve, who had all traveled from Maidenhead.

Thanks to Councillors Karen Davies, Amy Tisi and Helen Price, who helped give us a Clewer where we might target our efforts. Litter picking a new area was a Spital order for navigationally challenged Amy, but thankfully Steve was on hand to show us round his old neighbourhood.

We warmed up with a little 'litter picker hurdles' course at the Pirate Park, then Hatch Laned a plan that involved running together down St Leonards Road to Bolton Avenue, from where we would pick our way back to the start. Sophie, Fiona, Jess and Amy headed back down St Leonards, whilst Georgeta, Steve and Nic Boltoned off to tackle some more streets. We met up again around the Express Offie and compared notes on our findings: lots of the usual bottles, cans, plastic wrappers, cigarette butts and face masks, but also the more unusual... a doll's bicycle seat, a pair of glasses, keys, socks and even cash.

By now our rubbish bags were getting pretty Bulkeley Ave, and we were a bit Clewer cHilly so we found public bins for most of the rubbish and headed towards home with a Springfield Ave in our step. Fiona hung onto her bag just in case we found any more rubbish on the way, and turns out it was Dedworth Road it! We had lots of fun scoring litter hoops in the moving target provided by Fiona's bag and meanwhile she got an epic arm workout.

Well done everyone! Keep an eye on the listings for when the run/walk to the Lawns is rescheduled. All upcoming events can be found here. See you soon!

Such a lovely warm evening for a group run, and great to see such a good turnout, especially considering everyone has been so busy with things like getting kids back to school, moving house, recovering from bronchitis, winning bowls trophies, breaking a thumb, packing for holidays, painting a play house and flying on private jets.

We met at 6.45pm and warmed up at the Windsor FC car park on the edge of Windsor Great Park. We were then treated to a pretty setting sun as we did a lovely green loop in the park before heading to our task location, the Lawns Nursery & Preschool. Walkers and runners took slightly different routes (4km vs 3km) but waved to each other as we dashed round. Thanks to Amanda and Sula, whose local knowledge kept us on track, to walk-leader Tara, and to Sophie and Jess, who back-marked for the runners.

Our task for the evening was fence painting and we decided to focus on the stretch by the sandpit. This worked out well as it was under cover and it started to rain towards the end of the evening. We used brooms to see off the spiders and then slapped on the chocolate covered paint, using torches as the light faded.

The darkness during the Autumn and Winter does bring challenges, but it also casts a sort of magic over the evening.... we're not just painting a fence, we're doing it by torchlight and we're all in it together! It is not something any of us would typically do on our own on a Wednesday night, so it feels more adventurous and special. Darkness is also great for hiding the inevitable paint 'freckles' and 'moles' we seem to end up with...

Having completed the target area, we traded dipping paint-brushes for dipping triceps, and fence planks for side planks. Team spirit was high as we zoomed round a fitness circuit, which also included jump squats, jumping jacks, running, skipping and side-stepping. Neighbours might have mistaken us for a group of giant fireflies or a busy runway with all the head-torches and body lights energetically bouncing around.

We then headed back to our start location running or walking via a more direct route and finished with some stretches and discussion about exciting future plans like a Christmas social and some races to aim for. More details to follow...

Well done everyone on an energetic, productive and sociable evening!

It was an evening of the arts! We all did lots of painting, Diya and Jenny showcased their photography skills, and the poor spiders were dancing away as we swept away their webs. No drama, but that's how we like our community missions. Literature? Does this run report count?

How about music? Well our task for the evening was to paint the music cabin, and as this was our third time painting at the Lawns, the evening played out like a well rehearsed symphony: we ensembled and had no treble opening the school gates or finding the instruments carefully laid out by the staff. We quickly tuned into what needed painting and understood the scale of the job. As the paint dried it was sometimes hard to see where still needed a bass coat, but that was nothing major. Working in harmony we managed to get the paint looking nice and flat and we even managed to reach the pitch of the roof! At the end we agreed it was looking pretty sharp and we concluded that painting really is our forte.

The final chords of the evening were played by Sara and Amy on the awesome xylophone in the music corner of the playground before we said our goodbyes and headed off - Kanika, Diya and Jenny making the most of the warm midsummer evening to cycle back.

Well done to everyone who came along for this lovely sociable and productive session, and a special mention for our tourists - Jenny from Ealing and Sara from Slough. It was great to see you!

Huge congratulations to our leader Amy Lovell Amy who feathered her way to 100 good deeds painting the play furniture on Wednesday night at The Lawns, Windsor.

The runners gathered outside, some flew down Imperial road on foot, others used magic fairy dust to give them extra pedal power from Maidenhead. We also welcomed two new runners, Vicki Egarr Vicki and Louise Hearne Louise on their first mission – lovely to have new faces joining us.

Once inside the magic gates, the team set to work varnishing the fairy garden and revamping the wooden park. It didn’t take long for the Good Gym angels to work their powers and have the place back looking like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell’s wonderland.

Well done everyone – amazing team effort.

Everyone gave 100%... but after an hour, fairy-nuff it was time for cake to celebrate Amy’s marvellous achievement!