Sarah and Sheila took on watering at the allotment on the hottest day of the year so far. We filled the water butts, whilst filling our watering cans and giving all those thirsty fruit and veg a good old drink

It was a busy morning at the Baby Bank, as the last day before the half term break. Referral packs were going out, and donations were coming in as fast as we could sort them and pack them away. Carol and Sheila earned themselves a week' s break

On the 20th day of May, Goodgym said to me...

9 Goodgymmers gymming 8 people snipping 7 reams of tinsel 6 strings of lights 5 bare baubles 4 bare bottoms....

9 Goodgymmers made their way to green skills library to held with the de-assembly of the old bauble decorations in the nicholsons centre

There was lots of reminiscing about the good old days of Smokeys, but we still made quick work of the task and soon had a pile of naked baubles in the corner!

another successful task down!

Sheila and Laura joined another volunteer at Braywick Plant Nurseries. After doing a quick scout to remove any ailing plants from the sales area, we settled down to the main job of the morning - trimming the straggly petunias to stop them all getting tangled up with each other and to encourage more flowers. Several buckets of trimmings later, the plants were neat and tidy and we had earned ourselves a nice cup of tea!

Sheila and myself cycled this morning to Mrs M's to help her with some gardening, as she is no longer able to do it herself. . The back garden was overgrown and the lawn was in desperate need of mowing. Sheila wasted no time and got the lawn mower going while I got on with trimming bushes. We followed with some weeding and clearing up. There was an almost instant makeover, suddenly the garden looked more inviting and Mrs M cheered up and said she could now see herself sitting in the garden while chatting with the next door neighbour, over the fence of course!

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.