Arron, Freya and Jason spent an hour finishing the cleaning of the first half of Blue Sky public art at Callington Road Hospital in Brislington. Also picked up a bag of litter. We'll be back to spin the other 1,500 plates!

Part 2 of leafleting for this weekend's Picnic in the Park with runners and walkers pounding the streets of St Werburghs, St Agnes and St Pauls - all very saintly.

With new maps and a stock of leaflets, letterboxes were targeted (after a quick fig at the Community Centre) with a bizarre number of fake/sealed letterboxes out to fool us.

The walking group had an unexpectedly sharp stop to leafleting when Caroline slid over on a piece of wood, twisting her ankle. As someone who doesn't have Uber on her phone (I know, right?!), it was a call to an actual taxi company and having to use road names instead of a dropped pin for location. Old School!

With a bit more leafleting and Caroline on her way home, Jason had an unexpected run back to Workout to reunite with Melanie and the runners Richard, Ed and Cameron and Darren who'd managed to find some energy after a long day at work with no lunch.

After establishing Senegal is hosting the YOUTH Olympics, not the WINTER Olympics, conversation moved to Ed's preferred and least sought after volunteering roles - our money's on drug testing again. But good lick with the half marathon in the meantime.

Another morning on the slope cutting and spraying the brambles to hopefully stop them from coming back! Usual tea, biscuits and chat at the end. Lovely morning to be outside.

Until next time…

and now for something completely different...

It was dark down here. The only light coming from the occasional lamp that lit up the faces of the other workers and revealed yet another tunnel. Rince, a rather skinny boy, darted around the tunnels, surefooted, as if it wasn't dark, carrying an assortment of packages. He stopped occasionally, long enough to hand one to a worker who diligently fed it into a tube above their head. The package would disappear, never to be seen again. No one knew where the tubes led, only that it was their job to keep them fed.

it was back to a bit if leafleting for GG Bristol on a lovely evening.

Lots of residents were interested to hear about the Picnic in the Park next weekend but the absolute favourite was the letter box dymo taped message expressing GRATITUDE TO THE DELIVERY PERSON - we feel loved! And cats. Many, many cats, including reverse image white with black moustache and black with white moustache.

Leafleting means lots of chat during the task which carried on as we went to GoodGym Eats' September's outing at Three Brothers, where sadly there was no Ting for sale or even to see. Maybe next time?

Making the most of dry but not searingly hot weather, Richard, Roz and Melanie turned to the east wall and overgrowing plants as a target zone - with huge access proven by a huge pile for the Council gardeners to collect as green waste.

Sadly, the whole of Bristol had decided to go for brunch so we missed out on our coffee and food - we’ll make up for it next time!

A return visit to Brunswick was on the cards for a fabulous collection of GoodGymmers in surprising humidity. Runners and walkers set off in good time and were soon assessing the very dry grass with very green thistles and other weeds.

With path to find, weeds to dig and brambles to chop it was a hive of activity and fortunately not a hive of stinging insects. Though Vaguely Northern Darren upped the stinging game by tackling the tall nettles that had gone very dry but were evidently still potent.

Excellent weeding squatting technique was on show from Dushyant and Cameron whilst Phill adopted a more hamstring- stretching seated pose - great to hear that Phill's able to start a gentle return to running. A delicate forking and cutting technique was adopted by Richard, Russ, Marianne and Frances whilst Jason and Melanie cut back some reaaaaaalllllly long brambles that have grown over the Jerusalem sage we cut back earlier in the summer. A big-fork side task to dig out some human-looking fingers that were actually Acanthus Mollis that people pay to have in their gardens but grows like a weed i the Cemetery so some of it had to go.

And then we were off to Workout to be sad that regular barman Carrick has left but Paige the boss was there inducting new starter Charlie (maybe - note to check) and we explained that leaving the coffee machine on until 8.15 on a Tuesday is a good plan. All to accompany Marianne's fantastic mystery-ingredient "protein superfood" chocolate bites covered in hundreds and thousands. The mystery ingredient wasn't raw chicken but you'll have to come along to find out what it was.

We'll tell you next time we see you!