This what3words is not only Sheila's marshalling point for the Windsor Parallel race, but also pretty much summarising the day so far. Meggie, Sheila, Agnija and myself have volunteered for this year's Windsor Parallel Festival. Sheila and myself have been assigned to marshaling, while Meggie ran the 10km race, as well as volunteering before and after. A huge cheer to her, and also to Sheila, who's marshalled for the Junior Park run in Maidenhead first thing in the morning and then cycled to Windsor!!! I've been stationed near the Avengers House, they have been filming here... shame I don't know much about it, I'll have to look it up. We'll be soon heading back to the festival.
Agnija has joined the volunteers group at the last minute and she was assigned to directing the traffic in the car park, doing a wonderful job of it! Well done everyone!!! I'm sure there is something for everyone here, I've seen earlier today cute animals being brought in, the stage being set-up, the stalls, the mayor arriving, all ready for everyone to have fun and chill.

Six GoodGymers set their alarm clocks for first light, and made their way to Ray Mill Island for one of our favourite events of the year. About 160 athletes were braving a swim down the Thames, and the organisers needed some help ensuring that everyone set off safely and that their belongings got to the correct locations. Sara, Sophie, Richard and Sheila collected in the swimmers' flip-flops, making sure that they were in the correct bag according to which distance they were swimming so they could be dropped at the point where they would exit the water. David was in charge of car key drop-off, putting them in labelled envelopes so they could retrieve them at the end. Claire and Sophie were helping distribute string to tie flip flops together Then after the safety briefing, they were ready for the off. Each swimmer's number was logged as they entered the water. GoodGymers Amy and Amanda were taking part in the swim so it was lovely to be able to see them off. Once the 1.4 and 2.8 km swimmers had left, it was over to the other side of the lock to help the Heritage 5km route swimmers who were exiting the water, running over to the island and entering the water for the second half of their swim. Again there were some familiar faces - well done to Jen and Alain for taking on this epic challenge. Claire and Sara did a great job of ensuring they all followed the right route. Once the last of the swimmers had been dispatched we helped tidy up and walked to the rowing club where swimmers could collect their Tshirts and belongings. David, Sophie and Claire helped swimmers exit the water while Sara enjoyed the task of hosing down the swimmers' feet. One participant declared the experience to be 'bordering on the orgasmic'! We think he may have swallowed too much of the Thames water! Everyone was grateful for the clean-up and left happy. We had certainly enjoyed it too. We left the site just as the rest of Maidenhead was just waking up! Well done to David on his first GoodGym community mission - do come and join us again.

At the Baby Bank this morning my first task was to clean a bike that had been donated but was covered in mud. A bucket of soapy water, a cloth, a brush and some elbow grease later, it was much cleaner and in a much more presentable state to be handed out. Afterwards I put together a referral for a 4 year old boy who will be gaining a baby brother next month, including some maternity clothes for his mum. I hope he enjoys his new toys

The unrelenting temperatures means that the plants at the Community Allotment were desperate for a drink. Georgeta kindly joined Sheila after her social visit to help with the task. Georgeta watered with the hose while Sheila watered the beds round the back and across the car park with watering cans. We also found time to pinch out the tomatoes and construct a better support for the brown drying beans. We were delighted to see a Comma butterfly flit around us as we worked

8 GGers met at the riverside hub to help out with a number of tasks

We all stared work on the weeding, and a huge difference was seen in a short space of time

Weeding out of the way, we moved over to the over side, where decking was swept, brambles were pulled and the sad pond was dismantled ready for a new happy water feature to take its place

Tasks completed, we made our way to the bench where task owner Heather had kindly left a platter of fruit and squash

Hats off to another successfully completed task!

High fives for the great group who got up early on Sunday for some sociable hedge trimming.

Our job was to cut back overgrowth to improve visibility from marshal points 2 to 4 at junior parkrun. When we started it was more a case of visibili-tree than visibility.

Kudos to Liv for running 7miles to the task and still having energy to marshal at parkrun afterwards.

Phil and Sheila made an early start to look out for nesting birds and focussed on the Eastern end of the path.

On the Western front we took turns standing in the marshal spots to help us find the right bits to cut back.

We made great progress but concluded at the end that perfect line of sight is not possible without digging up some of the trees and hedges completely.

Marshals at point 4 will need to take a couple of steps back to wave at their buddies at point 3.

That's fewer steps than they would have needed last week though!