Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

Tonight we were back helping Age Concern at The Spencer Denney Centre painting the walls in the lobby and doing a bit in the garden.

Who stole summer? Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie 🎶 us some sunshine please! It’s was a grim day and rain was due so we opted in our group chat vote for painting indoors.

We all met at the centre tonight (some walked or by car)and while waiting for everyone to join we played with the baseball in a circle not sure what the name of the game 🎶 was. Still it kept us entertained.

Task owner Rachel had the brushes and paint at the ready and showed us what needed doing.

Special welcome to Nic for her first Windsor 👑Thursday evening session 👏🏻 and Didem has now completed 10 good deeds with today being her 11th so well done Didem. 🤩

The crew tonight were Helen, Marilyn, Natalia, Jen, Sue, Nic, Caroline , Didem and Mandy.

We cleared the lobby area, got set up with dust cloths, chose our preferred brushes and a section of wall.

ABBA was Didem’s choice of tunes tonight although we did seem to get take a chance on me 🎶 on repeat 🤣 but thank you for the music 🎶 anyway!

Sue and Marilyn decided to be brave and did some garden tidying instead of painting and cleaned the garden furniture in case the sun does ever decide to show itself 🙏🏻 and the guests can sit outside.

The others literally finished up all the paint supplies… Mumma Mia 🎶 ! So then one buy one after tidying up and washing brushes in the Waterloo 🎶 we all ended up in the garden anyway … so much for the vote 🤣 still it wasn’t too bad. Most of the rain was coming off the leaves of the tree in the wind.

Not letting anyone go early Mandy put on a quick 10 min Joe Wicks fitness video and we had a go at what we could without a mat.

Then it was time to do our group photo… sorry I missed Helen in this 🥲 then did our Windsor curtsy and say our goodbyes.

Thank you all so much for coming lovely to see you all and some new faces these last couple of weeks 😍

Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

Tonight we were helping at Saint Edward’s Catholic First School for their forest garden project (the first session here) and this was a GoodGym Windsor milestone. It’s been 5 months since that very first dark and rainy night in Windsor!

Bekah, Mandy and Marilyn met at The Binoy. Marilyn cycled ahead to the task and Bekah and Mandy ran the long way round.

There we meet up again with Marilyn 🚲 and also Natalia, Caroline , Didem and Adam at the school.

Very special night as well as we had two first GoodGym sessions by Marilyn and Natalia … a huge welcome to you both 👏🏻👏🏻

We were let in the school garden (task had been pre-arranged with Liam and Paula) by caretaker Ken and his black and white cat 🐈‍⬛

We had been sent a brilliant video on our instructions ahead of the task so we got to work with some dance tunes chosen by Bekah 🪩 in the background.

First task (not on the to do list) was to take a photo 🤣 📸 couldn’t resist a GG pose with the bath 🛀🏼 before immersing ourselves with the task of lifting it out of the ground to fill with any garden waste.

We all did a bit of everything whilst under the watchful eye of a GoodGym Robin wearing his free GG red t shirt! Lots of weeding, tidying some edges, digging, planting and watering.

There were some hidden surprises under the stinging nettles and in the earth for Adam, Natalia and Bekah 🐛🪲🪳a decaying pallet that was host to lots of bugs that Mr Robin was very happy to have for supper 🪱. Also some very large roots that caused a bit of an issue deeper down but we managed to get the plant in. Caroline and Bekah also found hidden treasure 💎💎 in the borders!

Marilyn did a brilliant job chopping down and compacting the waste in the hole in the ground plus watering and giving the Robin some nice fresh water to drink and bathe in 💦👏🏻

Didem had a little sit down 🤣 while digging a hole for a little fern tree. But it turned out to be a better technique with the tool we had brought along. 🌲

Then further along the flower bed, having already done some raking Caroline started digging a new hole and Didem assisted and they planted another plant. 🪴

We then all tidied up any mess and put things away.

Just had time at end for two quick rounds of fitness playing cards with some Turkish, Welsh and German counting by our very international team tonight! Then the Windsor curtsy and bow before piling into the boat for another silly picture 📸

Thank you all so much for coming. So nice to be out in the light evenings, doing good, getting fitter, meeting new people and have the odd giggle! 🪴👏🏻♥️👑 thank you for all your support over the past 6 months x