A cold start to a beautifully sunny and soon warm Bank Holiday - who’s’ve thought?

A small but select team of GoodGymmers helped local Jo to de-bramble more patches of the cemetery, leaving the plants we want and pulling out the bramble, buttercup and bindweed that has no place here, thank you very much!

Arron and Jason made a start on cleaning the Blue Sky public art at Callington Road Hospital. It was great to see the facility and to engage with some of the patients, one of which tried to do a deal around biscuits (given to us along with tea by staff) for a cigarette! Think that's a GoodGym first! Of course we let them have a biscuit and declined their offer.

Thanks for the pun Arron!

5 GoodGymers spent Saturday morning at a newly referred project - Stonebridge Park hostel in Eastville which supports homeless men. We had a great introduction to Stonebridge by the manager and then spent an hour or so chopping back brambles (and discovering cans). The difference made in that time was amazing, well done all!

Frances had a great time playing with the dog - Branston (what a pickle?!). Freya tried raking up Jordan hence Mr Mean look, and Richard and Jason just behaved themselves as always!

Arron and Jason made their second visit to Callington Road Hospital on gloomy Good Friday (didn't rain!) to clean the Blue Sky public art. Only another 2,500 discs to go! We'll be back

Mr. A was not well today so needed lots of support in all sorts of ways so it was a more complex mission today. At the end I felt that Mr A was in a much better place than when I arrived.

Daylight! Sunshine! Smiles all round for our first light evening Group Run/Walk of 2026 after what’s felt like the longest, darkest, wettest winter ever.

Happy GoodGymmers set off to Brunswick Cemetery for Operation Sycamore No More to collect as many sycamore seedings as possible from the thousands that are sprouting. One sycamore tree is enough, thank you!

Left, right and centre, GoodGymmers were crouching, squatting, kneeling and, in Richard B's case, elegantly lounging to gather their bouquets of sycamores with a bit of stickybud to surreptitiously attach to a fellow GGer. Ieva, returning for her second good deed, was definitely the sinner of the biggest bouquet, mainly because the more experienced GGers wither made a pile or speedily bagged their offerings. There may be a prize giving ceremony next week.

Phill and Emma gave some of the tomb-covering ivy a trim whilst Vaguely Northern Darren ferried the trimmings yo the assigned green waste collection point.

The sign that everyone needed a good stretch was a group of GGers standing tall and happening to be chatting, naming no names Caroline, Richard G, Jason, Ed, and Dushyant!

A lovely stroll/run back as the sun set was followed by more chat at Workout whilst the football was on with a few if us continuing to practise our Japanese. More again next week?