Tonight's task has a theme going through it...and I'll give you a pew to what it is!

When I checked the sign up list last night and only I was signed up, I did have a momentary panic so I sent a little note on the whatsapp group to see if anyone else could join me...luckily both Peter and Sara were able to come along...pew for that.

I knew Leonie (our task owner would be present), so I wasn't too phased if I did have to do the task alone, however it's always good to have some company.

Our meet up point was Upton Court Park at 6.30pm with the option of a walk or run down to the Church. Only Peter met me at the park, the rest of the team made their own way to the Church (on time)...on arrival we did see a few people lingering around the entrance so I personally was very grateful to have Peter and Hamid (who was now with us too) to wait with....a blessing in disguise!

We were soon joined by Devajani so were ready to go inside to see what our task was.

Leonie explained that they had a concert on Sunday and needed some help with sweeping the floors, vacuuming the altar, cleaning the pews and the entrance area....and a little bit of high dusting!

We had a web of laughter as we chatted, caught up on our weekly antics and cracked on with the task in hand.

Peter and Hamid took to the sweeping duties like pro's whilst Sara was on hoovering and Devajani and I took a pew.

It is always amazing how quickly and efficiently we can all work and get the task done. Within 50 minutes we had swept, hoovered and wiped. Then Hamid took the longest duster we have ever seen and cleared away cobwebs that had most likely been hanging around for years! And that's no web of lies! But pew we did it!

Today's community mission was to do a litter pick at St Mary's Church in preparation for the Sunday Remembrance Service and Parade.

We had 7 team members eager to collect as much litter as we could to ensure the church grounds were in tip top condition.

At first sight the grounds already looked spick and span, but sometimes you never know what's hidden behind the deep depths of the grass! However today there was very little.

At 11am we observed a 2 minutes silence for the fallen soldiers.

We completed the task in under an hour and collected 4 bags of rubbish (which is actually really good for this task).

Thank you to everyone who attended

Such a glorious evening today with the sun beaming down on us as we carried out an environmental task at St Mary's Church on Church St.

We had a mixed bag of those who wanted to meet at the task location and those who met me at Upton Court park for a little warm up and jog/walk down to the Church.

Great to have Sandy back after a little break and of course the usual team. As the walkers set off, the runners did a warm up and jogged down after them.

The task tonight was to litter pick the grounds. As the Church has a footpath going through it, it does get used by residents as a cut through which unfortunately results in excess litter.

The last time we did this task here was on the King's Coronation bank holiday as part of the big help out. We, alongside local residents and businesses collected over 30 bags of rubbish that day!

On arrival we were met by Reverend Scott, who gave us an overview of the areas he wanted us to focus on - which was basically all of it. It was nave of us to think we wouldn't find any litter as sadly the whole grounds were full of it.

We knew we had to be a litter bit careful of the needles on the Church grounds and low and behind, Sara and Mehdi found a bunch of them tucked away in a corner. We used the safe methods of disposal into the sharps bin the Church had - we took no chancels on this litter!

The best way to tackle this task was to split off into pairs or trio's and take a section of the grounds each. Our paths crossed as we worked our way around picking up cans, crisp packets, clothing, handbags and even a £5 note! Good find Maya

Within 40 minutes we had altared the way the grounds looked and holy smoke we had collected 12 bagful's of rubbish.

As always, the Church are always very hospitable and had cold drinks and fruit for us at the end of the task, whilst the team enjoyed that, Sara and I had a lovely chat with Reverand Scott -about the Church, it's history and burials! - he's a font of all knowledge

Next week it's bank holiday Monday but we will still be out doing our good deeds. We will be at Salt hill park at 6.30pm for a litter picking task.

But before we go here is a picture to show how bendy we are (or not!)...well done Hamid! Clearly the winner!

PS.. thank you Jen for all the puns

This evening we did our first task with St Mary's Church on Church St. Such a stunning building which needed a little tlc around the permiter of the actual church where the weeds were starting to grow.

A very warm welcome to Deborah on her first task with us. We hope you enjoyed it.

Our meet up point this evening was Upton Court Park which was 1km from the task location.

It was great to have our 3 friends from Slough Refugee Support English class back again.

Whilst we waited for the rest of the team to arrive, Pam, Claire, Mehdi, Ehsan and Mohammad were treated to a warm up session! We took this opportunity to teach new English words to the guys whilst they taught us the equivalent in Parsi!

Word Association

Whats the best way to learn a new language? You link it to a word that sounds similar.... so

• Lunge is lunch;

• Jogging is joking;

• Roundabout is circle

You dig it?

With a quick text from Peter saying he'd started walking down with Deborah, the rest of us gave Pam a walking head start before we starting joking down Upton Court Park to the Church.

On arrival we met Devajani, Claire, Agnia, Kam and Scott (our task owner). Scott explained what needed doing and had kindly provided refreshments for us.

We then broke off into smaller groups and got to work on our patch.

Within no time we had removed all the weeds and had the area looking brand new! We then enjoyed some cold drinks and fruit... thank you St Mary's Church. With talk of a return task we set off back to our start locations.

Next week we are at Langley Memorial Park on Langley Rd and corner of High St Langley for a community litter pick and fitness session

Though we also have a litter pick at Black Park on Friday. Plus volunteering at Cippenham Carnival on Saturday.

https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions