Another morning on the slope cutting and spraying the brambles to hopefully stop them from coming back! Usual tea, biscuits and chat at the end. Lovely morning to be outside.

Until next time…

and now for something completely different...

It was dark down here. The only light coming from the occasional lamp that lit up the faces of the other workers and revealed yet another tunnel. Rince, a rather skinny boy, darted around the tunnels, surefooted, as if it wasn't dark, carrying an assortment of packages. He stopped occasionally, long enough to hand one to a worker who diligently fed it into a tube above their head. The package would disappear, never to be seen again. No one knew where the tubes led, only that it was their job to keep them fed.

it was back to a bit if leafleting for GG Bristol on a lovely evening.

Lots of residents were interested to hear about the Picnic in the Park next weekend but the absolute favourite was the letter box dymo taped message expressing GRATITUDE TO THE DELIVERY PERSON - we feel loved! And cats. Many, many cats, including reverse image white with black moustache and black with white moustache.

Leafleting means lots of chat during the task which carried on as we went to GoodGym Eats' September's outing at Three Brothers, where sadly there was no Ting for sale or even to see. Maybe next time?

Making the most of dry but not searingly hot weather, Richard, Roz and Melanie turned to the east wall and overgrowing plants as a target zone - with huge access proven by a huge pile for the Council gardeners to collect as green waste.

Sadly, the whole of Bristol had decided to go for brunch so we missed out on our coffee and food - we’ll make up for it next time!

A return visit to Brunswick was on the cards for a fabulous collection of GoodGymmers in surprising humidity. Runners and walkers set off in good time and were soon assessing the very dry grass with very green thistles and other weeds.

With path to find, weeds to dig and brambles to chop it was a hive of activity and fortunately not a hive of stinging insects. Though Vaguely Northern Darren upped the stinging game by tackling the tall nettles that had gone very dry but were evidently still potent.

Excellent weeding squatting technique was on show from Dushyant and Cameron whilst Phill adopted a more hamstring- stretching seated pose - great to hear that Phill's able to start a gentle return to running. A delicate forking and cutting technique was adopted by Richard, Russ, Marianne and Frances whilst Jason and Melanie cut back some reaaaaaalllllly long brambles that have grown over the Jerusalem sage we cut back earlier in the summer. A big-fork side task to dig out some human-looking fingers that were actually Acanthus Mollis that people pay to have in their gardens but grows like a weed i the Cemetery so some of it had to go.

And then we were off to Workout to be sad that regular barman Carrick has left but Paige the boss was there inducting new starter Charlie (maybe - note to check) and we explained that leaving the coffee machine on until 8.15 on a Tuesday is a good plan. All to accompany Marianne's fantastic mystery-ingredient "protein superfood" chocolate bites covered in hundreds and thousands. The mystery ingredient wasn't raw chicken but you'll have to come along to find out what it was.

We'll tell you next time we see you!

A Saturday lunchtime session to help Mr M by 1) cutting the grass, 2) cutting back the overgrown brambles and bushes, and 3) making a start on cutting back the hedges along the public footpath.

As always, Mr M was super grateful and we had a nice chat over a lovely cuppa about the latest test match and his forthcoming trip to France 🇫🇷

Sunny but thankfully cooler morning at the farm. Put stones back into the play pit. Then time to see some animals and go for a coffee. Great to see David back after all his travels.