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...

Another beautiful evening for the DEMOCRACY that is Bristol GoodGym to get together and inflict some good somewhere in the city. With the fabulous progress in de-sycamoring Brunswick cemetery last week, there was a golden (sunlight) opportunity to get a lot more of this time-sensitive task completed. Although every time you turn around another sapling-to-be has emerged from it's underground seed. Much chatter ensued, etymology of words and comparisons with other languages was a hot topic, inspired by the unexpected finding of a really-quite-posh baguette amongst the undergrowth. We left it, in case it was useful, and all headed off to Ciao Amici for GoodGym Eats, it being the first Tuesday of the month - great food with quick service - just what we needed!

Daylight! Sunshine! Smiles all round for our first light evening Group Run/Walk of 2026 after what’s felt like the longest, darkest, wettest winter ever.

Happy GoodGymmers set off to Brunswick Cemetery for Operation Sycamore No More to collect as many sycamore seedings as possible from the thousands that are sprouting. One sycamore tree is enough, thank you!

Left, right and centre, GoodGymmers were crouching, squatting, kneeling and, in Richard B's case, elegantly lounging to gather their bouquets of sycamores with a bit of stickybud to surreptitiously attach to a fellow GGer. Ieva, returning for her second good deed, was definitely the sinner of the biggest bouquet, mainly because the more experienced GGers wither made a pile or speedily bagged their offerings. There may be a prize giving ceremony next week.

Phill and Emma gave some of the tomb-covering ivy a trim whilst Vaguely Northern Darren ferried the trimmings yo the assigned green waste collection point.

The sign that everyone needed a good stretch was a group of GGers standing tall and happening to be chatting, naming no names Caroline, Richard G, Jason, Ed, and Dushyant!

A lovely stroll/run back as the sun set was followed by more chat at Workout whilst the football was on with a few if us continuing to practise our Japanese. More again next week?