A weedy good stretch

6 Goodgymers helped their local community in Windsor and Maidenhead
Sue
Didem Campion
Rebekah Patterson
Mandy Driver
Gareth Lloyd
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Windsor and Maidenhead

Thursday 25th July

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Thursday 6:15/ 6:30pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ

Tonights community mission was at Spital Cemetery clearing weeds and collecting litter. A first for the Thursday evening session.

Bekah ran to The Binoy for 6:15pm to say โ€œhiโ€ to Jen who was walking and then she ran on to the task to meet the others.

We eventually ๐Ÿคฃ gathered at 6:30pm and the task owner Karen and the local cat showed us the area we we needed to tackle. Got on the classic fm for some calming background tunes.

Our fab GoodGym Team tonight was Gareth (welcome to his first Thursday evening session), Jen, Sue, Mandy , Bekah and Didem.

Gareth and Didem set about doing a quick litter pick on their way to the main area of work.

The weeds had over taken the rose garden of remembrance and with traces of ashes visible we had to be mindful not to disturb these. The weeds had blanketed the whole of the bed and some of the roots were really deep. The thistles had also grown very densely Bekah tried to tackle these but they were a bit to prickly. Hopefully after all our hard week the rose will have some space to thrive and any future scatterings will be much nicer.

Jen volunteered herself for condensing the green waste and then Didem and Jen took the bag down for collection.

After the task we opted for a calming quick yoga session perfect for a cemetery. Not that we were much calmer afterwards as it was just too funny ๐Ÿคฃ Jens classic line โ€œI donโ€™t think Iโ€™ve ever done yoga in a graveyard before โ€œ๐Ÿคฃ

At the end we did the Windsor curtsy and bow ๐Ÿ‘‘ and said our goodbyes.

Thank you all for coming โ™ฅ๏ธ and Namaste (nah-mah-stay)


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https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/home/community-and-living/cemeteries-and-crematoria/cemeteries/windsor-cemetery-st-leonards-road

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Amy L
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Tue 30th Jul at 10:42am

Sounds like a brilliant session with a lovely mix of respect, reverence and GoodGym ridiculousness. Well done team! x

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