A lovely day greeted the GG team. We tackled a variety of tasks. Weeding around the sides of the cafe and returning the pebbles to the infamous pit of everlasting task giving. We also filled 2 more bags of manure for the farm to sale to the public. A final photo by the rabbit pen with the resident cat and we were off on our daily adventures. Proper job 👏

A lovely sunny day welcomed team GG today. we tackled the front section that is very visible to users of this wonderful community space. With a selection of our favourite tools we sliced through the weeds and barrowed the weeds up to compost. An exceedingly good cake of a task. A final picture by the cherry blossom and artichokes and we were on our way. proper job👍

What a bumper crop of GoodGymmers under blue skies for a foray to Brunswick Cemetery after the inaugural presentation of Very Exciting GoodGym Bristol Badges for Run Leaders, TaskForce and extra special helpers. Watch this space for future developments!

We were joined by Jordan on his first good deed, Tom on his first group run and Freya back for her second Tuesday and looking totally different without her big woolly hat - fantastic to have you all on board. And yes, it normally appears a little bit chaotic at times but is definitely All Under Control.

With the tree popper/root puller on site and training demonstrations given by Top Tree Popper Marianne, Jordan was in his element tracking down protruding sycamores and brambles to be collected up into the Dumpy Sack of Doom, alongside Richard B's entrenching tool's victims.

Valè and Richard G took to the paving slab tidying, Richard missing his seasonal role as a lamppost already.

The bindweed/buttercup/sycamore club scouted out more widely - Caroline, Jason, Janka and Frances uncovered lots of ground and were very good at leaving the non-weed plants to grow, whilst Tom moved on to earn his Pathfinder status with the muddiness redistributed away from the golden gravel.

Ed and Nik grabbed the loppers and went in search of bigger things to chop - do much is now growing so fast!

And Janka's email address is nothing like kangaroo, in case you were wondering.

Until next week!

It was Tom's first ever GoodGym task this morning, having moved to Bristol at the beginning of the year and revealed it had rained every day but one so far - could GoodGym be his lucky charm for at least a second day without rain?

We got stuck into the important but gentle task of chopping down the nettles in* the paddocks and pulling out any that were on the main paths outside the paddocks and throwing them back in to be nettle salad for the livestock, whilst the GoodGym sundial was created.

And it hasn’t rained, yet…

*in the paddocks, so long as we could reach them without getting our trainers submerged!