Melanie Young

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Bristol

Loves being outdoors and being active, helping make the world a happier place to be one day at a time. Eats cake.


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Friday Farm Frolics - Good Friday
🗓Today 8:00am

📍Windmill Hill City Farm BS3 4EA

Keeping our local community farm tidy for the enjoyment of all

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Melanie Young (she/her) signed up to a community mission.

Fri 29th Mar at 8:00am

Friday Farm Frolics - Good Friday

Keeping our local community farm tidy for the enjoyment of all

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Wed 27th Mar at 11:00am

Holey Moley!

Bristol Report written by Melanie Young (she/her)

It’s great to help the winter night shelter, originally mattress moving and for the last few years turning the B&B back to its normal purpose for the six months until next time.

This time I specialised in cleaning the individual holes in the backs of the bedroom chairs as well as getting room 2 spick and span for painting tomorrow.

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Tue 26th Mar at 6:20pm

GoodGym Bristol Sod Off and Refill with Gravel

Bristol Report written by Melanie Young (she/her)

This evening's GoodGymmers were rewarded with a lovely sunset as we ran and walked to Faithspace in Redcliffe to collect the tools and trolleys for the night's path laying.

Last time we'd had days of heavy rain and were glad of the light drizzle, tonight was drier and didn't the turf know it! We seemed to have found a particularly rocky patch which Marky had marked (so Marky-ed, I guess) as the next path joining the planters. There's already been lots of positive feedback about how much easier it is to get to the planters and beyond.

The gravel is a special "self-binding" type which makes for marvellous non-shedding paths and, when its been left a few weeks, a solid lump in dumpy sack.

Once the edges had been marked and knived (?), we split into ground-chiselling and gravel-chillesing teams, definitely a tough workout tonight. Many different strategies were tried with the top methods proving to be stabbing with a big fork for gravel breaking and sitting uphill and spading downhill for turf lifting (called sods, for anyone wondering). We are so creative and adaptive.

Perseverence paid off, the new path was given its preliminary stomp, catwalk-style and flavoured water was enjoyed. Laura and Vaguely Northern Darren headed off for a longer run back whilst the rest of us finished off, tidied up and took the tools back to Marky's workshop.

Top path-making, team!

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Mon 25th Mar at 4:00pm

Cheep rent

Bristol Report written by Melanie Young (she/her)

Lots of bird boxes constructed by the kids at Dame Emily Park (and a few of the parents) so the small birds can have new social housing for cheep rent!

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Mon 25th Mar at 10:00am

The bindweed battle has begun!

Bristol Report written by Melanie Young (she/her)

As well as the (now standard) path edge finding and sycamore sapping pulling. Today was the day that the bindweed had started to show and can start being tackled for another flipping year!

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Melanie Young (she/her) signed up to a community mission.

Wed 27th Mar at 6:00pm

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Melanie Young (she/her) signed up to a community mission.

Mon 25th Mar at 4:00pm

Bird and bat box building - Dame Emily Park

The beautiful park will be even more lovely.

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Mon 25th Mar at 10:00am

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Sun 24th Mar at 11:00am

Hole-some Sunday at the muddy buddy bench

Bristol Report written by Bristol runner

A poem this will be.
Take a look at the photos.
You’ll see the odd tree

Seven GoodGymmers met this Sunday.
For yet another fun day

We emptied a hole and filled another.
We even found some carpet mother!

A difference we did make.
Time for some tea and cake

This poem is done.
I might now have a cinnamon bun?

Until next time…

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Jason Thorne

Sun 24th Mar at 1:38pm

You get reports out quicker than Reuters!

Bristol runner

Sun 24th Mar at 1:48pm

… and just as accurate probably :)

Dame Emily Park Project

Sun 24th Mar at 2:02pm

One hero, two heroes, three four five ...., glad Good Gym is helping to let wildlife thrive 😃

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