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 :-)

Fantastic sunshine greeted 11 GoodGymmers who were relieved it had stopped raining. It was great to meet Alice, visiting us from London Town and Josh joining for his very first GoodGym task having been attracted to the red t-shirt gang at a local event. Rasa and Matty also joined us for a second time and our cemetery gardens specialist Ieva was back, too. Great to see you all!

Brunswick Cemetery was looking glorious in the evening sun and the recent heat and rain have helped everything grow fast - especially the weeds! reclaiming the paths from the greenery was the main plan, catching as many of the weeds before they scatter their seeds and create next year's weeding.

Lots of chatter and plant identification (guesswork), the park was a-buzz with GoodGymmers and insects getting their fix. Bag after bag of green waste was piled up for the Council to collect along with armfuls of bigger/spikier weeds.

It was soon time for the random pointing end-of-task photo as we left the park even more beautiful than weed (see what I did there?) found it.

Back to Workout to sit by the water with a pot of tea and taste-testing the chocolate protein cakes, or chocolate not-do-much protein cakes - great evening everyone.