We helped the lovely charity Alexander Devine get set for their big spring sale of chocolate stuffed little knitted chicks. The chicks, and some rabbits, llamas, hedgehogs, beetles, and a few other woodland creatures needed tagging.

So we set up a production line of tag builders, taggers and cutters. That lasted all of 5 mins! Soon we had multiple activities happening across the large table, but the speed of work was impressive!

A dozen pair of hands = 500 chicks tagged. Don't we love it when the numbers are so neat!

We finished off with some delicious birthday cupcakes made by our own baker extraordinaire Rachel to celebrate GGWM's 6th birthday. Chatter, laughter, hard work, competition and cake - a perfect GG mission!

Rachel and Sheila joined Taskowner Sarah at All Saints School to continue to prepare the ground for sowing wildflower seeds. The ground was still lovely and soft from the rain, making our job nice and easy. The plentiful worms and beetle grubs we found bode well for the health of the soil. We managed to de-turf and dig over 2 new beds before we lost our battle with the failing light.

Kanika and Diya went on a mission to Ms. S to help with connecting the robot cleaner and taking down the Christmas tree.

Her daughter had visited just a day or two back and removed the tree so we helped her with some other bits: - (figuring out and) enabling the mop function on the robovac - teaching her to use the mop function on the robovac! - taking down blown bulbs from table lamps - helping to order new bulbs (and other essentials) from Amazon

The tasks didn't take too long but we stayed half hour longer as she wanted to have a chat. We said goodbye and wished her a happy birthday for tomorrow (but not before clearing out the notifications on her Alex; the pulsing yellow light was driving me mad, lol!)

There were plenty of worms to be found though as Jen and Christine got stuck into planting Snowdrop and Bluebells near the Plane tree. We then added some violas and pansies to the Goodgym planters whilst Mick repositioned the planters and did some general cutting back and tidying up and Anne-Laure joined the sub team raking leaves up from various areas , for the compost.

8 Goodgymers joined Wild Maidenhead and Friends of Oaken Grove to move turf to form a border and to plant more bulbs and plants to rejuvenate the wild flower meadow.

A big welcome to Anna joining us for her first task.

Welfare visit for Mrs D