30 degrees. Not just one of my favourite triangle angles, the temperature at the 6.30 set-off for GoodGym Bristol with Plan C - a gentle litter pick to remove the mess left by people "enjoying" the very hot weather.

Armed with litter pickers, bags and ice-creams from the lovely lady who delayed her journey home to reopen her ice-cream van for us, we wandered around shady (as in not-in-the-sun, not less salubrious) areas of Harbourside, designing the ice-cream network for Bristol's on demand, multi-flavour on-tap cooling system. Just normal stuff.

Ice cream van, litter plan, can we catch the rubbish man? Sunshine, can of wine, should the sun have a curfew time? Litter pickers, bags are full, sweat in places no one should, time to go, drinking time, I can’t take it anymore…

Ah, the joy of not meltingly hot nor drenchingly wet weather. Perfect for a spit of checking out front doors and their letterboxes to spread the word about home insulation information available at drop-in events at St Werburghs Community Centre.

Rasa and Matty (Matt/Matthew) picked a great, chatty session for their first GoodGym task and we hope to see them again soon.

Exploring bits of Bristol we've never seen before is always an added benefit of leafleting and the workout of steps and bending to ridiculously low letterboxes leads to hugely increased respect for our post people. And cats. The opportunity to stroke random cats.

The runners headed to the Centre to collect their leaflets and pick off some of the terraced streets i St Werburghs, the walkers made use of the leaflets Melanie had picked up on Monday for the first delivery session with Richard and popped to Montpelier.

Many leaflets left at residents' residences, it was off to the soon-to-close Raj on King Street for a lovely, very funny if very slow GG Eats with a stand-up robotic-specialist waiter, big spoons, vegan paneer, nutty boiled rice and many other highlights.

More GoodGymming next week?

On top of the usual maintenance tasks at the berry maze, we managed to dig out an old fence post that had snapped at the base, and postcrete a new post in. everyone chipped in as we took turns with a challenging dig. Great work everybody! thank you and see you again for the next session

Having cut the grass for Mr M last week, Richard and I returned to visit him this afternoon to make a start on trimming his bushes, trees and brambles, to provide safer access and let more light into his home.

A huge advantage of Mr M’s garden is that there is plenty of shade, so despite another warm and sunny afternoon, we could stay relatively cool and Mr M could come out to chat to us during the tea and bakewell slices break, and not burn the top of his head!

Having chatted about books and holidays last week, this week’s conversation included Mr M’s musical abilities on the trombone and the occasional difficulty with digital banking.

And Mr M agreed that there was nothing shady about our work in his garden today! 😂

First visit to Mr M in Redland this year and boy was his grass long. So much so that there was no time to do anything other than get the lawn under control. Hopefully a follow up task will allow us to make a start on weeding and cutting back the brambles.

Lovely to catch up with Mr M and discover the latest on his new book, discuss various authors and learn about his forthcoming trip! 🌷

Another visit to Mrs P in Southmead to mow the lawn and prune an old and very tall rose bush.

Nice chat with Mrs P during the task who seemed pleased with the result 👍