OK, thats a really shoe-horned pun title but you know what I mint.

Another glorious Tuesday, the first trip of the year to Dame Emily Park's fabulous Community Garden that's grown so much since we started helping out years ago. Nowadays were helping manage the space and plants that are there rather than mass clearance or compost shifting in preparation and hope that things would grow.

Poppies that had already set seed were being pulled out, fragrant herb beds were carefully weeded, willow was woven into the new hedge (and a tiny bit of trying to help the willow dome and the all-important tasting of biscuits and fruit Ursula had kindly provided to keep us going. An unexpected treat was small bits/fruits (?) of wasabi that lots of GGers were brave enough to try.

The main feature, though, was celebrating Jason's 501st good deed - a huge achievement and so much good and happiness and wellbeing shared in Bristol - well done! And there were cakes, obviously, though decamped to Bar + Block as Club Haus in Workout was closed for the evening. It felt like a really fun picnic even though we were indoors instead of overlooking the water with pots of tea. And the team at Bar + Block took it in their stride, luckily for us :-)

Ah, the joy of not meltingly hot nor drenchingly wet weather. Perfect for a spit of checking out front doors and their letterboxes to spread the word about home insulation information available at drop-in events at St Werburghs Community Centre.

Rasa and Matty (Matt/Matthew) picked a great, chatty session for their first GoodGym task and we hope to see them again soon.

Exploring bits of Bristol we've never seen before is always an added benefit of leafleting and the workout of steps and bending to ridiculously low letterboxes leads to hugely increased respect for our post people. And cats. The opportunity to stroke random cats.

The runners headed to the Centre to collect their leaflets and pick off some of the terraced streets i St Werburghs, the walkers made use of the leaflets Melanie had picked up on Monday for the first delivery session with Richard and popped to Montpelier.

Many leaflets left at residents' residences, it was off to the soon-to-close Raj on King Street for a lovely, very funny if very slow GG Eats with a stand-up robotic-specialist waiter, big spoons, vegan paneer, nutty boiled rice and many other highlights.

More GoodGymming next week?

30 degrees. Not just one of my favourite triangle angles, the temperature at the 6.30 set-off for GoodGym Bristol with Plan C - a gentle litter pick to remove the mess left by people "enjoying" the very hot weather.

Armed with litter pickers, bags and ice-creams from the lovely lady who delayed her journey home to reopen her ice-cream van for us, we wandered around shady (as in not-in-the-sun, not less salubrious) areas of Harbourside, designing the ice-cream network for Bristol's on demand, multi-flavour on-tap cooling system. Just normal stuff.

Ice cream van, litter plan, can we catch the rubbish man? Sunshine, can of wine, should the sun have a curfew time? Litter pickers, bags are full, sweat in places no one should, time to go, drinking time, I can’t take it anymore…

Rain may have prematurely stopped play but that gave us the opportunity to make some plans for the future.

We had a great chat about what attracts people to GG Bristol, how we can improve general outreach and specifically 18-25s both within and outside the Uni sector. Visibility is key so maybe some sessions in busier places with red t-shirts on show to encourage people to chat with us, maybe with QR code so people can instantly look us up.

And the tea/decaff cappuccino/coke was good too, plus Melanie and Darren's photos from Japan parkrun adventures, of course.

Off to the greenhouse (pretty sure i haven't made that name up but you know when you start to doubt yourself) this evening to help clear the space out the front, or is it the back? This involved filling the big bin with wood, carpets, bin bags and plethora of other things, and extra points could be awarded for bouncing off the lid and in. These points are not redeemable unless you like pasta bakes. Saws were used and big pointy lever-y things were utilised in our quest to tidy up.

Was great to see some of the changes that had been made and hear of plans for the future. Anyway i'm home now so the report must end. Pretty sensible report this time. No snail orgies today.

Until next time...

A litter pick, a garbage grab, a rubbish roundup, take your pick. This evening we entertained the denizens of Redcilffe with our picking prowess. We definitely weren't bears. We did pick six bags full but i'm rambling and i'm home now so the report must end here!

With bags full of litter it was now our turn to fill up, though we went for Ramen.

Until next time...