Terrible pun and photos this week🤣. This week we bagged more manure. 4 hearty bags for the farm to sell to the public. We also clipped the nettles in the paddocks to keep them becoming thorny and harming the animals feet. Also, the bind weed was wrestled with. Amazing job as always everyone. A lovely morning 👏

A return visit to Mr M in Southmead who I’d last helped two years ago and looking at the length of the grass in his garden, I wondered if it had been cut since.

Sadly, after faffing around with the strimmer twine for about quarter of an hour and failing dismally to get it to stay attached, I reluctantly moved to the small electric flymo which I knew wouldn’t be up to the task of getting the grass cut properly.

Seemingly accepting my apologies the machine tried its best and between us we did what we could in the time available - it was slow going and hard work and I think both the flymo and myself will enjoy a rest this evening! 😅

Blue sky and sunshine for the 12 GoodGymmers who braved the hill up the Totterdown, making the mostbof the Banana (Benene, Binini,Bonono, Bununu, just for Frances) Bridge before it, too, closes for a couple of years to be fixed.

A local group is looking after some green spaces and making them more inviting, including this one (not the actual orchard but still technically an irchard as it has five fruit-like trees) that needed some woodchip moving from a big pile to start creating a winding path, hindweed to pull and fruit trees (what with it being an orchard) to water.

Riya, on her first good deed, mastered shovelling, raking and the all-important GoodGym proficiency test for wheelbarrowing after revealing she'd never tried any of then before - great work!

The runners, led by Vaguely Northern Darren and backmarked by Caroline, who was backmarked by 50-good-deeder Caroline, had already gotten to grips with the woodchip path-laying by the time the walkers arrived so Richard and Frances joined Melanie in trying to pull up the bindweed without pullout out, nor falling down, the bankside. Somehow Ed joined the path gang although he'd walked and defected to the running group for the return leg (where Marianne's 50th good deed cake was waiting - delicious!).

Darren took some lovely photos in the sunshine and if you can see through the glorious glare of the sun, Tom, Gareth and Freya were all hard at work casting long shadows.

Soon we'd weeded and pathed and were on our way back down the hill for tea, cake (and Ed's burger), cider and a lot of nonsense chattering about skiing chickens and Mr T(-pot). All pretty standard stuff.

Same tine next week?

Having moved furniture out of Mrs C’s kitchen on Saturday so that she could get some new flooring laid, I returned this evening to move everything back in. Mrs C lives not far away from Bristol Rovers home ground, who are better known as “The Gas” but also as “The Pirates” so couldn’t resist the pun…….🏴‍☠️

Earth Day was celebrated in Bristol through a visit to Brunswick Cemetery to support their Friends group's Monday morning action.

No orchestra today and on/off light rain meant great weather for transplanting from the wrong place to (hopefully) the right place, sycamore and bramble popping galore and paths revealed to (almost) their former glory - all in all a lot of earth was moved and two dumpy sacks filled, to be collected by the Council.

Also, almost an argument about cake as it's the week of Marianne's 50th good deed AND Jordan's birthday week so big celebrations at the Group Run tomorrow!

A lovely sunny Sunday afternoon and great to join Melanie in Ms S’s sun trap of a garden.

Plenty to do here but we made a good start on de-weeding and trimming back the front.

Still plenty to do here but Ms S was delighted with our efforts and rewarded us with a cold can of fizzy drink 😋