Aome of Goodgymers met at the school and some walked from the meeting point. It was a sunny afternoon; great for walking and enjoying summer weather. She school was located on lovely grounds with a forest on the side and it had lots of green area.

We had several jobs to choose from - painting gates, painting outside playroom sets, clearing brambles or pruning bushes around the play area the wood. My first impression was that it looked like a jungle for children - a great place for kids to get mucky and enjoy outdoors.

A herd of cows came to visit us from the woods area. It turned out they had the right to roam all that area. We saw many this summer's calves and cows. They all looked at us as investigating who we were. We did the same in reverse. Then we got back to out tasks - we better got mooo-ving!

It seemed like we had managed to complete quite a lot in no time at all! That colour "Medium Oak" looked so good on the gates and furniture sets.

We returned across the meadow back to the school. The teacher had prepared some juices, water and biscuits for us, which was a lovely touch. We managed to do the flag quiz while enjoying snacks and drinks.

We left the task with a good feeling that we had helped to improve the spacious outdoor area. And we made plans to attend the same session in September. Happy summer day!

Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

Tonight we were back helping St Edwards Catholic First School develop their new forest garden.

Special congratulations to Bekah for her 10th good deed and to Adam for his 40th! 👏🏻👏🏻👑🏃🏻🏃🏼‍♀️

We all had our own reasons to meet at the task tonight which was a community mission.

Our England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽️ squad tonight was Jen, Marilyn, Sue, Bekah, Mandy and Caroline and Adam was an honoury member 🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (we won’t tell Wales 🤫).

We followed our previous video instructions from the task owner and carried on from where we left off last session.

Jen took to the naughty corner to work on a dead climbing plant.

Adam and Bekah were on weeds and clearing.

Caroline wasted no time digging and planting and edging.

Sue and Marilyn weeded (mainly as they know what are plants and what are weeds) We moved pallets and stacked them safety.

Mandy took photos and did a bit of this and that. To help others and finding things that would fill the hole left from the removed bath. It does look like we have buried someone. Bekah and Marilyn even danced on it 🤣 I did count us all in and out 🤣 although we may have buried Mandy’s trowel!

So to sum up we did the weeding , clearing, sweeping, removing debris, litter etc to clear the area. We also did some watering of the plants but there was a hole in our bucket.. there a song about that!

Bekah was on camera duty while we played our end of session game. Seeing at it’s was ladies day at Ascot and England playing football tonight the game was a combination.

It involved wearing a silly England wig, walking like a posh lady 👒with a book 📕on your head, galloping like a horse 🐎 (well we are GGs after all), dribbling the ball like a footballer⚽️ and waving the England flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The final seconds were Caroline and Mandy neck and neck but Team Marilyn, Sue and Mandy won! You can see by the photos and Bekah’s video it was a bit mad but to everyone’s relief not a burpee in sight 🤣

Thank you all so much for coming, missing the football game and dodging the Royal Ascot traffic. 👏🏻👑🏃🏻🏃🏼‍♀️

Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

Tonight we were back helping Age Concern at The Spencer Denney Centre painting the walls in the lobby and doing a bit in the garden.

Who stole summer? Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie 🎶 us some sunshine please! It’s was a grim day and rain was due so we opted in our group chat vote for painting indoors.

We all met at the centre tonight (some walked or by car)and while waiting for everyone to join we played with the baseball in a circle not sure what the name of the game 🎶 was. Still it kept us entertained.

Task owner Rachel had the brushes and paint at the ready and showed us what needed doing.

Special welcome to Nic for her first Windsor 👑Thursday evening session 👏🏻 and Didem has now completed 10 good deeds with today being her 11th so well done Didem. 🤩

The crew tonight were Helen, Marilyn, Natalia, Jen, Sue, Nic, Caroline , Didem and Mandy.

We cleared the lobby area, got set up with dust cloths, chose our preferred brushes and a section of wall.

ABBA was Didem’s choice of tunes tonight although we did seem to get take a chance on me 🎶 on repeat 🤣 but thank you for the music 🎶 anyway!

Sue and Marilyn decided to be brave and did some garden tidying instead of painting and cleaned the garden furniture in case the sun does ever decide to show itself 🙏🏻 and the guests can sit outside.

The others literally finished up all the paint supplies… Mumma Mia 🎶 ! So then one buy one after tidying up and washing brushes in the Waterloo 🎶 we all ended up in the garden anyway … so much for the vote 🤣 still it wasn’t too bad. Most of the rain was coming off the leaves of the tree in the wind.

Not letting anyone go early Mandy put on a quick 10 min Joe Wicks fitness video and we had a go at what we could without a mat.

Then it was time to do our group photo… sorry I missed Helen in this 🥲 then did our Windsor curtsy and say our goodbyes.

Thank you all so much for coming lovely to see you all and some new faces these last couple of weeks 😍

Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

Tonight we were helping at Saint Edward’s Catholic First School for their forest garden project (the first session here) and this was a GoodGym Windsor milestone. It’s been 5 months since that very first dark and rainy night in Windsor!

Bekah, Mandy and Marilyn met at The Binoy. Marilyn cycled ahead to the task and Bekah and Mandy ran the long way round.

There we meet up again with Marilyn 🚲 and also Natalia, Caroline , Didem and Adam at the school.

Very special night as well as we had two first GoodGym sessions by Marilyn and Natalia … a huge welcome to you both 👏🏻👏🏻

We were let in the school garden (task had been pre-arranged with Liam and Paula) by caretaker Ken and his black and white cat 🐈‍⬛

We had been sent a brilliant video on our instructions ahead of the task so we got to work with some dance tunes chosen by Bekah 🪩 in the background.

First task (not on the to do list) was to take a photo 🤣 📸 couldn’t resist a GG pose with the bath 🛀🏼 before immersing ourselves with the task of lifting it out of the ground to fill with any garden waste.

We all did a bit of everything whilst under the watchful eye of a GoodGym Robin wearing his free GG red t shirt! Lots of weeding, tidying some edges, digging, planting and watering.

There were some hidden surprises under the stinging nettles and in the earth for Adam, Natalia and Bekah 🐛🪲🪳a decaying pallet that was host to lots of bugs that Mr Robin was very happy to have for supper 🪱. Also some very large roots that caused a bit of an issue deeper down but we managed to get the plant in. Caroline and Bekah also found hidden treasure 💎💎 in the borders!

Marilyn did a brilliant job chopping down and compacting the waste in the hole in the ground plus watering and giving the Robin some nice fresh water to drink and bathe in 💦👏🏻

Didem had a little sit down 🤣 while digging a hole for a little fern tree. But it turned out to be a better technique with the tool we had brought along. 🌲

Then further along the flower bed, having already done some raking Caroline started digging a new hole and Didem assisted and they planted another plant. 🪴

We then all tidied up any mess and put things away.

Just had time at end for two quick rounds of fitness playing cards with some Turkish, Welsh and German counting by our very international team tonight! Then the Windsor curtsy and bow before piling into the boat for another silly picture 📸

Thank you all so much for coming. So nice to be out in the light evenings, doing good, getting fitter, meeting new people and have the odd giggle! 🪴👏🏻♥️👑 thank you for all your support over the past 6 months x

Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

Tonight we were helping Braywood School digging a child safe pond 🐸 and planting a willow tree.

Jen and Mandy met at the Greene Oak pub for a social drink … oops no I mean walk/run to the task. While others Didem, Caroline, Angela and Sue met us at the school. Where we were met by the task owner Head Teacher Susan and TA Julie (of whom we may have a new recruit 🙏🏻 ).

Welcome to Angela as it was her first Thursday evening session with Windsor 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️ 👏🏻 but she’s a GG regular with lots of other good deeds under her belt.

Congratulations to Sue for her 10th official Goodgym session although I know she does much more than she lets on… and she is our own little mobile tool station … thank you Sue ♥️

On to the task …. We love a challenge and it didn’t take long for us to get started.

How many GoodGymers does it take to dig a pond? Not that many 💪🏻

Fantastic team effort pond-ering where we start, measuring up, digging, levelling, checking, then a bit more digging (avoiding the surprise pipe we unearthed 😬) all on repeat until it was just right.

Some redistributed in many different styles (using pits, bags, dragging or shuttle running lumps) all the excess soil away to other planters of under hedgerow to ensure the great quality soil was put to good use.

Once the hole was dug, a layer of sand was spread to ensure the pond was stable. We then will filled round the edges to make it totally secure and added the metal safety grill cover.

In the midst of all that a cute little Willow tree was planted in the corner by Mandy so as the pond gets establish the tree will bring a place for more wildlife for the children to learn about.

After the task in true GoodGym style we had a cheeky play in the playground and on the trim trail.

Lovely evening and lots of fitness with the birds singing and truly worthwhile task.

We said our goodbyes and did the Windsor curtsy and made our way home.

As always thank you all for coming 👑👏🏻👏🏻 and to Bekah as even though not at the task she’s helping with the socials ♥️