The spring booster clinics are on, but no one seemed to have told those eligible…

The rain kept off as we gathered under the suspension bridge. The tide was high but we did not want to go home. Armed with pickers we made great progress clearing the grassy verges and the sidewalk. Finds of the day were a very small plastic dog, a paddle and funnel. We gathered the rubbish near the collection area. Then off to the garden centre cafe to sample the lovely home made food. A great morning with amazing GG and Mark to really help keep this iconic area clean. 👏

Terrible pun and photos this week🤣. This week we bagged more manure. 4 hearty bags for the farm to sell to the public. We also clipped the nettles in the paddocks to keep them from becoming thorny and harming the animals feet. Also, the bindweed was wrestled with. Amazing job as always everyone. A lovely morning 👏

A return visit to Mr M in Southmead who I’d last helped two years ago and looking at the length of the grass in his garden, I wondered if it had been cut since.

Sadly, after faffing around with the strimmer twine for about quarter of an hour and failing dismally to get it to stay attached, I reluctantly moved to the small electric flymo which I knew wouldn’t be up to the task of getting the grass cut properly.

Seemingly accepting my apologies the machine tried its best and between us we did what we could in the time available - it was slow going and hard work and I think both the flymo and myself will enjoy a rest this evening! 😅

Blue sky and sunshine for the 12 GoodGymmers who braved the hill up the Totterdown, making the mostbof the Banana (Benene, Binini,Bonono, Bununu, just for Frances) Bridge before it, too, closes for a couple of years to be fixed.

A local group is looking after some green spaces and making them more inviting, including this one (not the actual orchard but still technically an irchard as it has five fruit-like trees) that needed some woodchip moving from a big pile to start creating a winding path, hindweed to pull and fruit trees (what with it being an orchard) to water.

Riya, on her first good deed, mastered shovelling, raking and the all-important GoodGym proficiency test for wheelbarrowing after revealing she'd never tried any of then before - great work!

The runners, led by Vaguely Northern Darren and backmarked by Caroline, who was backmarked by 50-good-deeder Caroline, had already gotten to grips with the woodchip path-laying by the time the walkers arrived so Richard and Frances joined Melanie in trying to pull up the bindweed without pullout out, nor falling down, the bankside. Somehow Ed joined the path gang although he'd walked and defected to the running group for the return leg (where Marianne's 50th good deed cake was waiting - delicious!).

Darren took some lovely photos in the sunshine and if you can see through the glorious glare of the sun, Tom, Gareth and Freya were all hard at work casting long shadows.

Soon we'd weeded and pathed and were on our way back down the hill for tea, cake (and Ed's burger), cider and a lot of nonsense chattering about skiing chickens and Mr T(-pot). All pretty standard stuff.

Same tine next week?

Having moved furniture out of Mrs C’s kitchen on Saturday so that she could get some new flooring laid, I returned this evening to move everything back in. Mrs C lives not far away from Bristol Rovers home ground, who are better known as “The Gas” but also as “The Pirates” so couldn’t resist the pun…….🏴‍☠️