Last night I excitedly packed 2kg of Jelly Babies into small bags. Now that’s not a normal Saturday night but it is Great North Run eve tradition in my house.

Despite the rain, Debbie and I secured a spot near the 7 mile marker and planted the Good Gym flag ready to cheer on the runners.

The atmosphere on the route is always amazing and the wet weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the crowd or runners.

We clapped. cheered and through in the odd Oggy, Oggy, Oggy for good measure.

Lucy joined us in time to hand out the bags of Jelly Babies to very thankful runners.

There was plenty of Good Gym love on the course.

Unfortunately, despite walking the route Melanie ended up a few meters up the road from our spot. Sorry we didn’t get to see you!

A beautiful summer's evening for our last daylight group run this year to Brunswick Cemetery.

After the mental challenge if folding dumpy sacks so they take up less space, came the physical task of path clearing and bramble bashing. The rain before a dry day meant pretty much perfect weather for clearing weeds, and even a pretty big sycamore sapling was liberated from the ground.

After tidying up, The Stable was the venue for GoodGym Eats and a game to try to name the famous Bristolians in the Last Supper style mural.

A great night and a short report as I have a monster headache/migraine.

Refusing to be raised off, an hour of weeding and re-siting baby alchemila mollis plants from the path to a freshly weeded edge where they may be competing with the HUGE amount of buttercup thriving in the beds between the graves - we can try!