Nine Goodgymers turned up at Nature's Haven to up-cycle some old doors into a greenhouse. Plenty of sandpaper was used to smooth the edges and remove the old varnish. Door furniture was removed and dusted down.The spider living in the key hole didn't look too healthy so was rehoused under some leaves! There was plenty of teamwork making the dream work! The evening was rounded off with some very welcome hot drinks and toasted marshmallows around the fire pit. We look forward to returning next week for part 2!

Today's job was to focus on weeding, tidying and edging a small section of garden next to the toilet block.

After a joint effort to move the collection of logs, Angela and Sheila got stuck into weeding and turning over the plot. Jess and Jen turned their hand to digging little trenches near the edge of the plot and placing the logs into the trenches to secure them. This meant Genius Jess could put her finally honed Tetris skills to good use, by the spade, to select and place the logs to form the edging.

Whilst Sheila finished the weeding and turning Angela turned her hand to thinning out the box hedge running along one side of the patch.

The transformation was amazing by the time we downed tools and called it a day

12 Goodgymers made a big difference by donating food to their local foodbank. They ran, cycled and walked to do their shop and then dropped off either in a supermarket or at a community collection point. Gill even came all the way from Luton to visit her Dad, and made a donation locally. Thank you so much, and we hope you can join in with another community mission soon - we'd love to meet you! The Maidenhead Foodbank saw a drop in donations over the Christmas period compared to last year, so hopefully we will have done our bit to help redress the balance. Despite one of the photos suggesting otherwise, no donations were left on the doorstep!

10 Goodgymers including first, but definitely not her last timer Sam made their way to the second session at the Green Skills Library

This time round host Donna put us straight to work and showed us how to line planters using old pub umbrellas (if Carlsburg made Goodgym tasks....)

Sam T proved he was very handy with a staple gun- and got the liners stapled into place in no time! Luckily no Final Destination moments occured!

The other team members turned their hands to painting the planters with an array of colours including taking inspiration from Mr Blobby (or planets in Sam's case), lovely leaves by our resident artist Amy and the grand finale of the GoodGym planter!

A successful and satisfying task all around

Goodgym twitchers were out in force for this years RSBP Big Garden Bird Watch.

Members from across the country took an hour out of their weekend to count birds in their gardens, local parks and green spaces. It seems a lot of curious pets got in on the action too although the dogs were not quite as interested as the cats!!

From London to Leicester and as far north as Manchester many birds (and squirrels) were counted including:

Robin, Wood Pigeon, Magpie, Crow, Jackdaw, Parakeet, Coal Tit, Blackbird, Red Kite, Blackcap, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Woodpecker, Great Tit, Sparrow!

Its great to see such a diversity of birds and we hope this data helps the RSPB to continue to protect these fabulous creatures!

(If you have done your birdwatch but not yet registered, feel free to add yourself or let me know and I can add you).