Shrub-a-dub-dub - GoodGymers in a tub!

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