A warm walk, a good weed of Jerusalem Sage, doll-looking Mare's Tail, Dock and dying Sticky Bud plus some skilled shaping of berberis and then back to Workout in time for the kick off with surround sound (delayed feed) TV coverage preempted by the crowds watching outside at The Apple.

And bumping in to Richard G for a chat - all lovely.

A bit of a warm one (something of a habit this year) meant, once again, everyone joined the walking group across the city to Brunswick Cemetery for the removal (destruction) of the beautiful Jerusalem Sage and Acanthus Mollis before they spread their seeds and take over even ore of the gardens - anything that's described as a "vigorous" plant and, in this case, also "robust" make for good planting and robust, vigorous GoodGym-style weeding!

i don't think we've ever had a pile of green waste that's taller than our GoodGymmers, but we have now! We know we'll have a short-lived feeling of being in more control of the wildness in the Cemetery for a couple of weeks after all that effort, and rewarded ourselves with the July edition of GoodGym Eats at Rudy's ridiculously speedy pizza place - great food, lovely cocktail-style soft drinks with slightly furry fruit plus the usual, weird, GG Bristol chat. With air con. Perfect.

We’ve done some weeding. New plants have been watered. This was really important because of the heatwave and a lack of rain. Highlight of the day was tasting berries.

A warm one with a hydrating coffee pre-task and some very hot letter boxes!

Oops

100% walking group this week, with a soggy meet-up but much drier session.

Walking means more chat which means many, many more tangential voyages of language and knowledge and also less time at the task so everyone grabbed tools at the Burial Ground which had turned very tall and green with fresh growth of nettles and brambles. Which were all really quite soggy.

By the time we finished up, the path in was much more accessible and we found some ripened brambles to help us build up a need for cake as we celebrated Ed's 100th good deed with a Slinky caterpillar cake that only seemed to cut into HUGE slices - which was convenient!