Five GoodGymmers, one solar eclipse, and a truly heroic amount of extension cables — that was the scene at the Green Skills Library today.

While the sky dimmed to an eerie twilight, the team lit up the indoors with some top‑tier tidying. Stairs were vacuumed with gusto, floors were swept into submission, rubbish was cleared with precision, and the cable chaos was tamed.

As the moon slid across the sun outside, inside it was all brushes, bags and banter — a neat little eclipse‑themed clean‑up that left the Library shining brighter than the sliver of daylight overhead.

Massive thank you to Jen for stepping up and leading the task.

Friday afternoon arrived quickly and it was time to head to the Community allotment to help to water the plants.

Christine, Didem, and Angela joined Sol on a very sunny afternoon. This made the task a quick and enjoyable work. We chatted away about summer trips and sampled some raspberries.

Discussion about kale, onions and leeks ensued, and we admired how well the runner beans have grown this season.

Watering was done in quick time, and Sol was able to head off to Birmingham a bit earlier.

Happy weekend!

A smaller group went back to Ray Mill Island on what was a relatively cooler evening than previous visits!

The team there has started putting irrigation in place, so we won't need to water plants anymore #selfreliance. We got stuck in where we left them previously - cutting out logs from a pile of bush for them to be put next to the river stream.

Mike already knew what to do and was straight into it with his very sharp saw. Roberta, Didem, and Diya weren't entirely sure how best to saw but a new skill was unlocked very quickly, and we were soon in the thick of it. Teamwork makes the dream work!

Once we had a full trolley of various lengths of wood, Nivvi navigated it to the stream where task owner Shoshan laid them on the bank. The idea is to create a kind of a barrier to prevent the public from going into the water. We now know what tethering logs mean!

3 superstars from goodgym helped at the oldfield summer fair on a very hot and very busy afternoon! the school were very grateful and lots of money was raised for the OSA. Didem helped with Hook a duck, Stephan on beat the buzzer and Jen on whack a snake. great job all!

After the heat thwarted our efforts to deliver leaflets for the Spencer Denney Centre, Didem, Sol and Jess were not going to be defeated. The terrific trio regrouped in Windsor, ready to turn a hot‑weather hold‑up into a cool‑evening success.

We set off to deftly deliver leaflets to homes surrounding the Spencer Denney Centre, spreading the word about their brilliant services and a couple of upcoming fundraising events (see the pictures for more details). In just over an hour, we covered 4km and dispatched around 300 leaflets — all fingers intact, despite a few unexpectedly enthusiastic dogs guarding their letterboxes.

The evening was warm, calm and infinitely nicer than the searing heatwave that had delayed us the week before. Perfect leaflet‑dropping weather at last.

But the night held an extra celebration too: it was Didem's 50th Good Deed. She received her medal and some cake — and we’ll let you decide whether Jess really baked it. When asked about her favourite task so far, Didem chose painting at the Spencer Denney Centre, making it wonderfully fitting that her milestone mission supported them once again.

A heat‑halted task, happily handled — and a milestone marked in style.