The herbs, vegetables and fruits on the community allotment are doing well - but there are still a few parts where the weeds are winning! So we showed the weeds that it was thyme to to 'beet it!' The sun shone and we had to soften the ground by watering it first in order to get at the roots. We filled 2 bags with the weeds and left this part of the plot clear and ready for planting - lettuce celebrate!

Six smiley Goodgymers set out from Salt Hill Activity Centre in the sunset, putting their best foot forward to deliver leaflets to local homes about Food Cycle. There was lots of chat and banter, and lots of optimism about the clocks changing soon - and excitement about getting out together in the light for fitness activities and group tasks.

This evening we were helping a new task owner, Usman, from College Rd Allotments with a path clearance task.

We met directly on site after a much deliberated afternoon of 'is it on? is it off?' due to the horrendous weather we had. Luckily it was an all systems go type of evening.

Usman showed us the area that needed doing and off we went.... boy do stinging nettles sting!

With a bit of effort and back bone we soon had cleared the path. Next, we layed some cardboard down and covered it with woodchip.

We managed to get a good chunk of the path done before it got too dark.

Thank you all for coming this evening to help.

Did you see the sky tonight? And the beautiful full moon? Experts say its another Northern Lights experience tonight and I think they might be right!

Tonights task was to deliver leaflets for the Food Cycle group who are offering hot meals every Monday lunchtime at the Salvation Army on Stoke Rd. Our task owner Natalie asked if we could highlight the service to locals living nearby.

So that's exactly what we did.

It was so lovely to meet Merlyn on her first ever task with us. And what a lovely gentle first task it was. We met at the Salt Hill Activity Centre at 6:30 and by 6:45 we headed off on a nice gentle walk to Stoke Rd where we met Devajani.

Soon we divided off into smaller groups and started working our way around Grays Rd, Littledown Rd, Belgrave Rd, delivering all the leaflets we had.

Within 45 minutes we had delivered them all.

Thank you all for getting involved in this task.