Smells St-Pauling! (say it out loud!)

With the sun came the run, and so 25 fabulous people met up at Vivo Gym for a run back to St Pauls Community Allotments.

We had a little jog on the spot to warm up, did our introductions, and off we went! With the sun comes more people out and about on the streets of Bristol, and so we encountered a few noisy people who wanted to cheer us on our way.

We swiftly made it to the allotments where we met up with Pete who is the 'Empowerment Officer' - in other words, he's the guy who makes stuff happen! We helped him with this by grabbing loads of tools and clearing up a path all the way through the allotment area, including a vast amount of weeding, a great deal of bramble and bush chopping, and the removal of a large amount of junk that has accumulated over the years.

A handy skip just outside of the allotments was the destination for this junk; at some point one of the GoodGym gang must have come across the worst smell in the world and put it in to the skip. I can still smell it now. I'll still be able to smell it next week. But it's gone from the allotments, which is a GOOD thing indeed.

It was hard to tear ourselves away from the allotments as there was so much to do so we spent an extra 10 minutes or so there. Hopefully people who live in the houses that back on to the allotments will start to use them to grow their own fruit and veg, and our help has gone a long way to making that a possibility.

We ran back and didn't do the little 10 minute circuit that I'd lined up! What I shame, I hear you all say. Oh well, we can do it next week.

Well done gang, fabulous work!!!