Goodgym duty today was continuing to weed the winter heliotrope from the main bed and rockery without stepping foot on the rockery.

There was plenty of it encroaching onto the path to tackle and it was very therapeutic listening to the water from the fountain trickling and the geese and ducks quacking.

Rosie and Sol joined Sue at the community allotment for the next batch of tasks.

this time we emptied two large vegetable beds of previous soil and filled up with the fresh soil and horse manure.

Afterwards we planted tomatoes from their seed beds into larger pots.

Fluffy, the local robin, kept an eye on us, and we rewarded him with may-beetle worms. lot of protein for him.

Welfare visit for Mrs D

Sue , Maggie and Sheila were at the regular Spital Cemetery workparty, and were joined by one other volunteers. while Maggie went off to tidy some of the war graves, the others started to tackle a tangle of hawthorn and brambles that were completely obscuring one of the headstones. Much chopping later, we had a couple of hippo bags of debris, and the headstone was revealed. To help get rid of as much of the dead branches as possible, some well-aimed boots did the trick. We were delighted to find a jersey tiger moth caterpillar, which we let loose to find it's favourite food of nettles and brambles, of which there are plenty! The headstone belonged to Alfred Stevenson his wife Ellen Mary and youngest daughter Helen Mina

People to Places provides a door-to-door transport service for local residents of the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead with mobility needs. Their minibuses are always in need of a wash - it makes a difference to their passengers as well - so who do they call?...

Five GoodGymers took a chance with the weather and decided the skies will be clear by 7pm. Boy were they proven wrong! 😂

Not only did it not stop raining, we also had some hail to level things up! Like the wise folks say, when life throws rain at you, grab the soap and wash the minibuses. (Ok maybe nobody says that!)

But we did - grab the soap and wash the minibuses, 6 in all.

Sara, Sol, and Rachel played Jump rope with the hose while a clean bus was being swapped for a dirty one. A fun evening, albeit quite wet, especially for Sara who wielded a leaky hose which wet her more than the rain. Such a trooper!

GoodGymers Kanika and Diya went out on a sunny Sunday to help Ms. J with a bit o' Microsoft Word help.

Ms. J used to be the Secretary of the Estate and is now struggling with typing up notes. 

We helped her with some basic functions on the laptop and wrote down the instructions as well; her memory is not what it used to be. It is true that technology can be pretty hard for some seniors but Ms J seemed determined to get on with it. Hey, she even taught us one thing! Did you know there was a "Clipboard" panel in Word which shows you everything you have copied? Handy!  just like ctrl+z which she absolutely loved 😁