Sandy Dhaliwal

Our session tonight was to help out at the vaccine Centre as they had added in a slot that was perfectly timed for us!

However, with the high rate in Covid numbers over the Christmas period, many people have been unable to attend their booster shots, therefore the shifts have been very quiet.

Having had the heads up that it may be a slow slog we decided to still come in and see if the center needed any other help, then had a back up plan of litter picking if it all went Pete Tong!

Shot in the arm .. and your to blame … you give love a bad name

Surprisingly there was a steady flow of people wanting their shot of medicine. We had young guns to overseas residents to those just coming in for numero uno.

Whilst Ramneek (welcome back for your second task), Abdulaziz and I worked the front door we had Pam Nisha and Sandy strutting their stuff in the observation area.

The 90 minutes flew by tonight. Well done to everyone for giving your blue Monday a purpose and helping others to #getvaccinated

Next week we are over in Britwell helping out at St Georges Church - hope to see you there

January's pickings..let’s not mask the effort.

Week 2 into January and we were raring to go! An old favourite of ours is to do a litter pick at Wexham Park Hospital. But with the hospital going into tighter restrictions on external visitors, I agreed with Task Owner Mike, that we would bring our own litter pickers and bin bags so that we didn't have a need to enter the hospital - We like to be part of the solution and not the pollution!

So we met at The King Wexham and after a brief brief and blood flowing warm up, we set off up the road with our pickers in hand.

It was good to have Joe back in the team, sadly his university course night clashes with our GoodGym night, but tonight he was able to run our course instead..

On arrival, we set off to work as one team in #onedirection. For a change there was so much litter on the hospital grounds tonight. Plenty of masks, beer cans and cigarette packets… even the off lateral flow test! Luckily it was negative

Around 40 minutes later we were done. Two bagfuls collected! And time to head back home.

Thank you Sandy and Joe for the company tonight.

Next week we are meeting at our task location - Salthill vaccine Centre to do a vaccine volunteer shift.

And just like that we've run into a New Year with exciting events ahead of us.

As per every January we have the January Challenge to look forward to in order to make our Motivation Monday's even more ... motivating!

This year we are tasked with completing 2000km and 80 Good Deeds! Best get those trainers on (hope my feet didn't put on any Christmas weight!).

We ended 2021 with having completed 1078 good deeds and over 11, 000 km's accomplished! But we are now 'out with the old and in with the New Year so let's smash this target and make 2022 our best year ever.

S'miles all round

Sut, Jean and I met at Sainsbury's in order to get a longer distance in (2 miles each way), and ran down to meet Pam and Sandy at The Activity Centre. We hadn't seen Jean in a few weeks and it was lovely to catch up with all the stories, which always leafs us with s'miles all round.

Our task tonight was to collect up all the leaves and fallen debris from the grounds at Parvaaz. The last time we did this task (in early December, we picked up over 15 bagfuls of leaves!). Could we beat this tonight? Let's see what happened..

The team tonight comprised off:

• Sandy - Leaf it to me - Dhaliwal,

• Sutyee - Leaf me alone - Pang,

• Jean - I cannot be-leaf it - Watts,

• Pam - I'm taking a leaf of faith - Banga,

• Manjit - Take it or leaf it - Birk.

So good to see everyone happily digging into the task. We spent around 45 minutes scraping the leaves, creating little piles, bagging them then disposing the bags in the waste area ready to be composted (without the plastic bags of course!).

What a re-leaf to get it all done in time.

Thanks for coming along to our first session of 2022...here are the listed tasks (more to be added soon)

https://www.goodgym.org/my/happenings

Baby it’s coald outside

So did you finish? Did you get your daily km’s in? Did you do more than your partner? Whichever way, well done! It’s not easy going out everyday pounding the pavements especially this time of year but well done to you all for getting out and doing it (even if it wasn’t the mileage you thought you’d put in).

It’s the most wonderful time for a beer

I see Ricky and Claire got in a sneaky beer after a 10k.. wohoo!

I had a lovely run, walk, chat with Jean to Eton where she gave me the two finger salute (all meant with love.. and the wrong way round hahah).

Helen, Claire and I got side-tracked at Thames Valley Athletics Centre with a few tik toks! But still managed to get our km’s in.

We really were in the spirit of Christmas

Did you forget your Christmas elfie

Of course we didn’t! Plenty of snaps from Pam, Jen, Nisha and Sut as well as Roisin, Keira and Claire!

I hope you enjoyed your extra 12 days of Christmas The GG remix challenge - all in order to make more santamental memories to take into 2022

You can put your feet up now and enjoy a mince pie or two.

I look forward to seeing you all in 2022!