What a difference a week makes! This time last week we had amber weather warnings and today we had glorious sunshine

The Great Get Together

Our task this evening was to leaflet drop for Slough Libraries and Culture to help promote all the great events and shows they have on offer at the local libraries in Slough on top of the usual services provided by libraries. A great way to get communities together and to learn about the different cultures in Slough.

This week across all Goodgym areas we are working in partnership with The Great Get Together, in memory of Jo Cox, MP.

We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us

Jo’s first speech to Parliament.

So this week we will be working with the Jo Cox Foundation for Loneliness Awareness Week to celebrate the kindness, respect and all we have in common as human beings #moreincommon

There is also a Great Get Together Event arranged by Slough Borough Council on Saturday at Herschel Park from Noon till 4pm with lots of activities for the whole family to enjoy. Pop on down if you are free.

Get in my good books

Great to have Lucy back on her second run with us. After our welcome brief and warm up we headed out of Salt Hill as a team before splitting up into smaller groups taking on our allocated streets.

We focused on the roads surrounding Godolphin Middle School, each group taking a road each and meeting back at the start of the cycle track once the task was completed. Textbook stuff really.

I have to say, of all the leaflets we’ve dropped (and we have dropped a fair few), these ones were the easiest by far. Nice level of thickness to the brochures made them very easy to drop. No knuckles were scrapped tonight.

Daddy Cool

Now we all know 2 things that dads can do to embarrass us. One is dancing, the other is telling jokes. With it being father’s day yesterday and not much more I can say about leaflet dropping I tasked the team to come up with their best Dad Jokes

So here is a taste of the Slough GG runners Dad humour

1. I ordered a chicken and egg from Amazon. I’ll let you know what came first
2. Q. What do you call a dear with no eyes and no legs? A. No idea
3. Why did the dinosaur cross the road? Because there were no chickens in those days
4. What do you call a man with a spade on his head? Dug!
5. Did you return your books late cos you’ve got fine written all over you

But the best-seller was delivered by Roisin

How do you get four elephants into a mini? You put two in the back and two in the front! How do you get four giraffes into the mini? You don’t as the elephants are already in it

So librar-y-rating to know that we have a great sense of humour on top of our running quality and level of community spirit

Task and jokes complete we headed back to base with a pit stop at Godolphin Playing Fields for a hanging competition! I actually managed to out-hang everyone but they all showed me up on the monkey bars at Salt Hill!

Next week we are returning to Ryvers Primary School in Langley to help finish off their learning garden. https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/get-your-gardening-gloves-on

Have a great week everyone