This what3words is not only Sheila's marshalling point for the Windsor Parallel race, but also pretty much summarising the day so far. Meggie, Sheila, Agnija and myself have volunteered for this year's Windsor Parallel Festival. Sheila and myself have been assigned to marshaling, while Meggie ran the 10km race, as well as volunteering before and after. A huge cheer to her, and also to Sheila, who's marshalled for the Junior Park run in Maidenhead first thing in the morning and then cycled to Windsor!!! I've been stationed near the Avengers House, they have been filming here... shame I don't know much about it, I'll have to look it up. We'll be soon heading back to the festival.
Agnija has joined the volunteers group at the last minute and she was assigned to directing the traffic in the car park, doing a wonderful job of it! Well done everyone!!! I'm sure there is something for everyone here, I've seen earlier today cute animals being brought in, the stage being set-up, the stalls, the mayor arriving, all ready for everyone to have fun and chill.

Olympic effort by team Goodgym. Goodgymers made their way to the mencap society to sand and paint the garden benches, so everyone can sit and enjoy the sunshine. The task was followed by tea and delicious Olympic themed cake😁

Georgeta, Meggie, Mark, Ben and Sheila all went to help out at Maidenhead Festival, a free community event. All the stallholders needed to pack up their stalls and transport their stuff off the site while the music and entertainment continued around them. Our task was to safely guide the cars across the site to their pitch whilst keeping all the festival-goers out of their way. As well as directing people to the toilets, first aid and lost property. Great work, team!

An amazing 8 Goodgymers turned up the community allotment on a sweltering hot evening. With so many helpers the watering was done in no time, and the hose left filling the water butts while we got on with the main task of the evening. 3 fig trees already planted in the ground needed digging up, repotting into larger containers, and replanting into larger holes. Digging up the trees was the easy bit! Making the holes larger meant we had to contend with buried, bricks, tiles and tree roots as well as brambles and nettles on the surface. Sol arrived just in time to give us a much-needed boost, spurring us on to dig deeper. The trees were put into their new containers along with some bits of pottery, top soil and manure, complete with a good helping of worms. What more could a fig tree need? We sank them into their new holes, filled any gaps with soil and gave them a good water. A great effort by everyone on such a hot evening and we all went home to cool off!

Meggie, Gillian and Sheila helped out at the Community Allotment. We did a bit of watering, moved some raspberries, weeded in the broccoli/spinach and leek/pepper beds, and finished up with weeding between the paving slabs. Meggie took some delicious-looking salad leaves home for her dinner. Great job, team!