What's up with the April showers! A bit of sun would be nice but the extra daylight is definately welcomed!

This evening it was less of a 'group' session and more of a 'pair'

With only Peter and I in attendance supported by task owner Gaye, we went with an earlier start time to take advantage of the light. We hadn't factored for the rain so were a bit drowned by the end but none the less we managed to get the two beds fully turned over.

Uprooted

Although the aim of the task was to remove the garlic and potatoes. The poor worms though that had their evenings uprooted by us probably weren't too happy!

I'm away now until the 16th so next weeks task is being led by Helen.

It was a much smaller than usual team out tonight helping Ujala Foundation with their community garden. Thank you to Peter and Jean for coming along tonight to help.

Jean and I got there early tonight so we took advantage of the light and went for a mile run around the block and got back just in time as Peter arrived.

Our task owner Gaye was already in the garden waiting for us. It was lovely to see her again. Gaye told us the areas to focus on. The garlic bed!!

You could really smell the garlic as we dug deep and pulled out all the 'hairy' roots! With the fading light we worked as quick as we could and did manage to get one strip of the bed turned over.

We will be back again next week to do some more.

After having to cancel last nights session due to lightening and heavy rain I re raised the task for this morning.

Only I could attend but I knew the Ujala ladies group would be there to give a helping hand.

So 3 of us spent a bit of time weeding around the front of the building.

This session was yesterdays session but yesterday was full of heavy downpours so tomorrow we thought would be a better day!

And what a better day it really was. A bit chilly to start with but before long we are ditching the coats as we cleared two more paths.

The area we have been working on is now having wildflowers seeded.

Its all coming along nicely!

We were back at Ujala Foundation to continue with the garden makeover.

With the wet weather recently all the weeds had reappeared in the bed we cleared a few weeks ago so it was back to work in that area again.

Peter, Sandy and I are now expert diggers and it was lovely to have Jen join us on her first time at this task.

My legs ached at every move so my vocal sounds may have sounded a bit pained but je pense its because I just ran marathon de Paris!!!

With more daylight it was actually good to see what we were doing for a change!

Well done on a great task!

There is no task on Monday next week but there will be on Saturday! Helping Slough Outreach with a store room tidy up.

We were back for our week 4 of 4 at Ujala Foundation working alongside BBOWT on the #nextdoornature project.

We've achieved so much over the past 4 week but there is still a lot more to do so we have booked in 2 more dates in April (3rd and 24th).

Tonight we had a very special milestones to celebrate!

Sandy’s 200th Good Deed

What an amazing achievement. She first came along to a session in around Aug 2018 and aren't we glad she did.

Sandy as you can tell gets involved in nearly every Monday evening session. Ever since she came back from traveling all clover the world she’s been at our side as one of our biggest supporters. She comes rain or shine with beaming smile ready to fill us in with her weekend antics. Sandy is also an active task force member whose reports are always very punny! A real DJ who knows how to turnip the volume!

When asked which task was her favourite, Sandy replied

I enjoy every task as each week is different but what I love the most is seeing the same GoodGymers week on week.

Well done Sandy

Diggin' it

So the task was to carry on with the digging up of the beds which were now looking very sleepy with heavy weeds and grass keeping them all snug and warm. Our job was to unleash the covers and put a chill back into the bed! We did this just like a mother would wake up a sleeping teenager!

With another bed nearly done we reckon we would need another 4/5 visits to complete the rest of the site!

It was lovely to have Jenny join us again after a ‘we were on a break’ period!

Claire was back on her second good deed - well done! Hope to see you in a few weeks.

At the start of the session I led the running team out for a 2km run whilst Sut lead the team straight to the task.

Plenty of effort went into tonight’s task. Even the worms were impressed!

Next week we are doing a leaflet task around the streets of Salt Hill Park.