Rachel, Anna, Laura and Sheila went to help out at Braywick Heath Nursery. Rachel and Sheila were asked to fill pots with compost.post and plant up with little plug plants. Meanwhile Laura and Anna were given the task of washing the outside of some large pots to make them more attractive for sale. Once they had finished that, they came to help Rachel and Sheila. A satisfying task, helping the nursery get the annuals ready for sale. They have really expanded their plant range - worth a visit!

A great morning again at Braywick Heath with lovely sunshine! We welcomed a new member Liz along with Anna, Matthew, Scarlett and Laura! Our task for the day was to fill pots with compost ready for the imminent delivery of plugs. We all got stuck in and Liz quickly became one of the team! In all we filled over 8 hundred pots which pleased all involved - a great achievement!Great job well done all those volunteers.

I've got sew much material for this report...sew many puns to string seamlessly together! But I mustn't lose the thread, so let's cut to the chase.

This year Maidenhead Athletic Club (MAC) are introducing pacers at their Easter 10 race, and they needled help with making their pacer bibs. Thanks to RD Jen for reaching out to GoodGym!

With my MAC hat on, I was task owner and Tessa, Anna, Gillian and Sheila met me at the Maidenhead Community Centre to lend a hand.

Laura, Tessa and Sheila traced and cut out numbers - all 36 of them, plus 24 dots for colons - and helped keep track of how many 1s, 5s and 0s were needed. These three are a cut above - they did a sheariously great job.

Gillian was on ironing duty - ironic since she refuses to iron at home! She smoothed out all the bibs and set out and ironed on the numbers with the help of a damp tea towel. She was working flat out!

Sheila helped with number placement too by chalking lines on the bibs so all the numbers would be in the right place.

My job was to zig zag around the edges of the numbers to keep them secure so they can be reused year after year. I completed 4 bibs during the session, although made some school girl errors, which needed to be corrected at home later - oops. At least I had a few people in stitches!

The remaining 8 bibs were shared out between me, Sheila, Tessa and Georgeta for more zig zag action at home. We were delighted to have Georgeta join the team remotely as she is an award winning quilter. No school girl errors from her!

It was sew satisfying to get sew much done at pace, and the bibs look great! Hopefully they will help lots of runners hit their target times in the ten mile race next week.

Well done team!

This weekend was the annual Big Read, a free festival held at Maidenhead Library. This year's theme was Step Back in Time, covering history from the Ancient Egyptians to Windrush. The library was absolutely buzzing, with so much going on , talks from authors, storytelling, crafts, dressing up, an archaeological dig, quizzes and more. The library looked amazing, decorated in part with models and pictures made by some talented Goodgymers and their families. Sheila was stationed in the Riverview Corner, hosting 2 of the talks and helping direct people to the right places. Both talks were excellent - one by Rob Lloyd Jones on how he got into reading (he hated reading as a child), and the second was from Martin Brown, who is the illustrator of the Horrible Histories books. He was emphasising that everyone can draw and create characters - very inspiring, and the children (and adults) loved it! A very successful event and it was great to be a part of it.