This morning I did a litter pick with Harsha and Manjit around our kids school. We collected 2 bags of rubbish

Once a-pun a time....

Some of you may know this already but this is the school that my children attend and the task came about after the school put a shout out for parents to come help tidy it up one Sunday afternoon. A few parents came along that day but there were still plenty of tasks that needed doing hence our visit tonight. The Langley Academy Primary also connects a fair few of the GoodGym team as Nisha, Sut and Harsha also are GG members and TLAP parents.

Our primary role tonight was to tidy up planter bed by removing the grass, putting down the membrane (having a little snooze in the bed!); putting down some soil but removing the grass first (easier said than done) and finishing off with compost. Well I'd say we achieved a SAT score of above baseline on this one! We did manage to put down the membrane but ran out of staples in the gun; we did manage to empty the soil bags but there were a fair few chunks of grass in them which couldn't be used; so that resulted in the top compost having to be delayed - Sorry Miss..we did try!

Newly grown..

Nahush was on his first task with us and he did an amazing job - getting absolutely stuck into the task

Hair today...gone tomorrow

Not many GG'ers go get their hair and nails done before a GG task - but Nisha did...lucky we had a spare pair of gardening gloves to protect those perfect nails!

Channeling her inner thoughts

Sutyee did a great job of creating a channel for bulbs to be planted. She did it so quickly it was almost like she had a team of little people helping!

Gnome-body knows gardening like...

Jean and Pam - always grateful for their gardening insights and advice

Well done to everyone tonight for their hard efforts

We look forward to having a team social to celebrate a little birthday on Saturday!

This morning Nisha, Pam and I spent an hour helping Slough Outreach with donated Asian wear fashion items! commonly referred to as 'suits'...

When Shin told me about the task I knew I had the right person signed up! What doesn't Nisha know about Asian fashion??? She's our glam Bollywood Queen!

So the task was to sort through all the donated lenga's; salwar kameez; dress suits; suits; sari's and general party sharty items into 3 piles...

• Hang with pride and sell for a fiver;

• Bargain bucket good to go but missing an item for 3 quid;

• Long lost love not worth keeping so lets give to rag.

In our best 'market trader' accents we got to work...

Classy is not what you wear... It's how you carry yourself

Some of the donated items were of immaculate condition and a real bargain at a fiver... we hope some lucky locals pick these items up!

Within one hour we had sifted through 2 big boxes of clothes and labelled them accordingly!

So from drab to fab we did our job!

5 goodgymers joined in to sort out Winter Colours, It certainly felt like winter by the garages so we helped ourselves to hats and coats with Pride.

We sorted more than 10bags of colours.

Should you wish to get involved please do sign up for next Thursday. https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/langley-thames-hospice-099e67b9-3e69-43bf-b76a-dddb0e92ef58

Well we weren't quite trolley dollies more like well oiled machine of super efficient ladies on a mission to get the job done!

Shin asked us to sort the back wall area that was full of toys, household items, books, dvd's and odds n' sods

We quickly got into action with crates for items then bag by bag we unpacked them all and sorted them into piles!

Toys were the biggest give aways! They had the trolley all to themselves.

Within 50 minutes we had cleared the whole area!

Well done team.

And an extra well done to me for achieving my 750th good deed today