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Friday Farm Frolics - Good Friday
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📍Windmill Hill City Farm BS3 4EA

Keeping our local community farm tidy for the enjoyment of all

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Tue 26th Mar at 6:20pm

GoodGym Bristol Sod Off and Refill with Gravel

Bristol Report written by Melanie Young (she/her)

This evening's GoodGymmers were rewarded with a lovely sunset as we ran and walked to Faithspace in Redcliffe to collect the tools and trolleys for the night's path laying.

Last time we'd had days of heavy rain and were glad of the light drizzle, tonight was drier and didn't the turf know it! We seemed to have found a particularly rocky patch which Marky had marked (so Marky-ed, I guess) as the next path joining the planters. There's already been lots of positive feedback about how much easier it is to get to the planters and beyond.

The gravel is a special "self-binding" type which makes for marvellous non-shedding paths and, when its been left a few weeks, a solid lump in dumpy sack.

Once the edges had been marked and knived (?), we split into ground-chiselling and gravel-chillesing teams, definitely a tough workout tonight. Many different strategies were tried with the top methods proving to be stabbing with a big fork for gravel breaking and sitting uphill and spading downhill for turf lifting (called sods, for anyone wondering). We are so creative and adaptive.

Perseverence paid off, the new path was given its preliminary stomp, catwalk-style and flavoured water was enjoyed. Laura and Vaguely Northern Darren headed off for a longer run back whilst the rest of us finished off, tidied up and took the tools back to Marky's workshop.

Top path-making, team!

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Fri 29th Mar at 8:00am

Friday Farm Frolics - Good Friday

Keeping our local community farm tidy for the enjoyment of all

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Fri 22nd Mar at 8:00am

From pebble pit to Lambington spa

Bristol Report written by David Head

As clockwork, cycling Sarah from the farm peddled in as we gathered for the task. A previous day recce to the farm had indicated little uns had tossed many pebbles out of the toy pit. Stage 1 of task was to sooty and sweep the pebbles back into the pit. In no time the pit had returned to its former glory for another day. Then next stop on the GG express was the lamb enclosure. 4 baby lambs but who were the parents? DNA testing needed. We did a bit of express weeding despite being seduced by the cuteness of the new born lambs. Then onto the traditional final team 🤳 selfie photo with the sheep and lambs in the background ish. Great job everyone 👏

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Fri 22nd Mar at 8:00am

Friday Farm Frolics - 22 March Edition

Keeping our local community farm tidy for the enjoyment of all

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Caroline (she/her) went on a group run

Tue 19th Mar at 6:20pm

St Werburghs

Bristol Report written by VaguelyNorthernDarren

8 runners (backmarked beautifully by David) and 3 walkers left Queen's Square 5 minutes apart and met exactly 1 kilometre from our starting position. Melanie stayed local as shes being unusually sensible with her broken foot.

For this week's homework, I would like to know how fast each group walked/ran and the first to correctly answer, will win a prize!

On with the task, we found the tools for the job behind reception and set to work on clearing up this amazing (and very well used) community space.

11 hands made light work of the weeds while dodging pre- and post-Pilates people (a novelty, we're more used to Yoga people), and attempting to translate the French lesson from the PowerPoint slides (Vaguely Northern Darren's 'F' in French A-level in 1990 did not help!^)

Richard G diversified and as well as proving adept at light holding, showed us his super sweeping skills, Gareth showed us his knife skills for those hard to reach wall weeds and Frances told a pirate joke that Laura (as our resident Cornish pirate) hadn't heard before!

When there were no more weeds to remove, the Walkers headed in to the night and Jason joined the runners for a change and showed us he can run if he really really really has to!

^Melanie's "A" at A-level Maths in 1991 thinks this was probably also 1991...

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Jason Thorne

Wed 20th Mar at 8:56pm

Was Frances' joke original or a copy?

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Wed 20th Mar at 9:29pm

The answers are 20mph and as fast as an unladen swallow.

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Fri 15th Mar at 8:00am

Bucketing down

Bristol Report written by David Head

Light drizzle can mean a broad bean of things. It starting dry but as we got to the shed we were greeted by the beautiful sound if rain. A moment of contemplation with the shed tools. And then rain turned to light drizzle and we dashed to the barrow zone to do a bit of speed racking. Collecting at great speed we filled a barrow in no time. We folked into to the compost and had time for a cow pose photo. Then off we went knowing we had menured our way successfully between the showers. Well done Aaron for running all way from Brislington 👏. Bring the sun next time 😃. Great work everyone 👍

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Fri 15th Mar at 8:00am

Friday Farm Frolics - 15 March Edition

Keeping our local community farm tidy for the enjoyment of all

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Tue 12th Mar at 6:20pm

Getting off the couch (grass)

Bristol Report written by Melanie Young (she/her)

It was only drizzle - hooray! The morning had brought flooding to Bristol with the highest Spring tide of the year, saturated ground (talk of aquifer levels) and more rain - all the roads had reopened so Lexi could get into Bristol after all. It was great to meet Joel, too, dragged along by Valè as something lovely to do on every Tuesday from now on.

Runners (always at a social, chatty pace and stopping at ALL the traffic lights) and walkers set off in the reducing light with talk of the lighter evenings and soon arrived at Hannah More Primary School to meet Ruth and Lyra the dog and set about tidying up the edges of the school field and digging deep grass roots out of one of the raised beds.

There's a fabulous new mural on their Big Wall , no idea why they didn't get GoodGym to do it...

Tools were renamed (alligator/crocodiles and Wolverine hands being favoured) and chatter varied from memories of previous visits, climbing the apple trees and hula-hoop trees - a Hannah More phenomenon not seen elsewhere that plastic hula-hoops grow on their trees.

The art of hula-hooping was demonstrated and tried out as well as street skillz of throwing a hula hoop so it spins away and then back. Hours of fun in the 70s and 80s before computer games.

And this week's cultural/music education piece is Wap Bam Boogie. I'll be testing you next week.

Ruth had very kindly made flapjack so we finished on time, cleaned up and returned the tools to the staff room and continued reminiscing (this was the venue of our summer social last year on my birthday, which also had torrential rain) whilst eating the fantastically gooey treat and heading back. Another job well done!

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Tue 26th Mar at 6:20pm

Group Run - 26 Mar - Return to the path making!

People will have better access to the new planters

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