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

Tonight we were helping The Windsor Boys’ School Boat Club filling potholes along the track and cutting some plants back. The track is used to transport the rowing boats on trailers from their storage areas to the river and potholes can cause damage to the boats.

Bekah and Mandy ran to meet the walkers - Caroline, Didem and Sue at Sutherland Grange and Adam met us at the task.

Ryan our Cox for the evening was at the ready with spades, shovels, rakes, lots of rocks/gravel/stones and some gardening equipment.

Mandy put the noughties dance tunes on the radio . Adam took possession of the wheelbarrow. Sue’s eyes lit up when she heard the word pruning and she was happily lost in the jungle 🌿 for a majority of the session. The rest of the crew grabbed a spade and launched into hunting for holes 🕳️ and fill with gravel. We made our way from the entrance up the track to the river. Each filled pothole needed stomping down and raking over to get a good level surface. There was a bit of shuttle walking/running going on as we had to get the gravel from the pile and take it to the holes. Lots of exercise for all the group tonight and a lovely view of the Thames and some rowers. Looking back at the completed track was hole- y ful- filling. We had to drag Sue away from the shrubs ( she’s hardcore!) as it was time for our end of session curtsy.

On the way back we waved at a stranger 👋🏻 thinking it was Adam 🤣 the poor man though we were potty 😂

We said our goodbyes and made our way home.

Thank you all as always Windsor GGs 👑 ♥️👏🏻

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

Tonight we were helping the Achieving for Children - Family Hub Service improve the aesthetics of their entrance way.

This was a community mission so we met at the The Binoy for a social walk with some tools and other items we needed for the task.

We were met by task owner Daniel and a Spanish Storm called Nelson! They both introduced themselves 🤣 Nelson was particularly forceful! 💨💦

We put on the 70s music to drown out the wind and have a sing/dance to as Jen, Didem, Devon, Sue and Mandy set about the weeding, ripping up the old weed-proof lining, removing leaves and litter.

Nearly lost the dust pan a few times in the air and everything was flapping about. But the we kept going in true GG spirit.

Once the main weeding was completed we did our very best to brush away the mud and debris but this was made difficult by the rain so we improvised with a bucket and old kettle to try and swilll some of the mud away. We also gave the inside a hoover at the end to get rid of any mud.

We then took the bags over to the bin area with Daniel.

Sadly it was too wet and windy for Easter games 🐰🐣( maybe next week?) or to paint the bench but we will try and go back for that another time. Sue will also go back and scatter some grass seed 🌱on the cultivated earth in the next few days 👏🏻♥️ when the wind has died down.

Thank you all as always for coming especially given the conditions 👏🏻♥️

Photos by Mandy

Thursday night at 6:15pm is Goodgym Windsor night 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️and tonight we were helping Age Concern at the Spencer Denney Centre sprucing up their entrances.

This was a community mission so Helen, Mandy and Caroline met at The Binoy on Dedworth Road for a social run or walk to the task and Adam and Didem met us there.

We were met at the centre by task owners Rachel who showed us where everything was and what we needed to prep and paint from blue to a pale sage green. The plan was to make the front entrance bright and welcoming. Lots to do but in true GG style we had no com-paints 🖌️

We got started with masking up the areas we didn’t need to paint or to protect like the tree mural that’s fasten to the wall. Then with the sugar soap solution cleaning the walls of grease, dust and bits of blue tack etc. Once dried off we chose a roller or brush of choice and got painting. No area was glossed 🖌️over

Caroline chose the radio station and Mandy got the tunes on like any tradesperson would! Doing a first coat on all walls and skirting. We chatted and exchanged our news while we worked.

Adam and Helen got a bit emulsion-al 🖌️ about their walls but we all thought the finish was perfect.

Didem , Helen and Caroline battled with rinsing and soaking the paint trays , brushes and rollers.

We did get a bit splattered with paint but we just just brushed 🖌️ it off 🤣

Looking forward to the second coat and starting the other area next time 👏🏻

After the task Caroline and Mandy made their way back to the meeting point for goodbyes and the Windsor Curtsy 👑 the others went directly home.

Thank you as always for attending 👏🏻