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.

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Lots more tidying so paths are clearer and weed seeds less able to spread around

Cooler weather and the Battle of the Sages was on! The first bed to be tackled, the Jerusalem Sage grows in abundance in the Cemetery Gardens, treated as a weed to try to control the amount of the plant to only those areas where it's wanted.

The beautiful yellow UFO flowers have given way to the ominously rattling seedheads, so it's time for them to go! Much chopping, as well as sticky bud and grass seed gathering plus a bonus bindweed bagging, the flower bed was soon looking thoroughly trampled and the pile of green waste for the gardeners to collect was HUGE!

it was warm but we managed to get two ends of a path to join up and look more like a path again - success!