T'was a wonderful summer Sunday, as we gathered to attend,

Another GoodGym mission, for which our hands were asked to lend,

A hand to paint a clubhouse, in lovely Batheaston,

That needed a lift, with some urgent redecoration.

We met at the George, but we were only a few,

Aaron and Meyrick and Becca, who to GoodGym was new,

These were the runners, heading for the task,

We jogged across countryside, over river and grass

We were initially lost, as What3Words was wrong,

But to our good fortune Becca's navigational skills were strong,

A five minute walk and we were no longer lost,

Finding the clubhouse, where we found Richard and Cos

Painting was the task, and we took to it like pros,

Rollers and brushes, magnolia and gloss,

We naturally aced it and finished the job,

And our hosts, rightly delighted, rewarded us with grub.

6 Goodgymers meet the team at Bath Preservation Trust to help remove the bind weed from the Southcot children's cementry.

At first glance it looked like we would barely make a dent. But after a good hours graft, the team cleared a huge area to stop the bind weed from climbing up trees, walls, grass and graves.

We also welcomed Fe for the first time to Goodgym Bath. Welcome Felicia we hope to see you again soon!

The sun was shining, the flowers were in full bloom, the weeds and hedgegrows had grown rapidly and the garden needed a good water.

Arriving at Alice park the team set to work at pruning the overgrown hedgerow by the bug house. This consisted mostly of ivy and sycamore tree.

With just one hour for the task, the team spent about 50 minutes pruning and 10 minutes chopping up the clippings to sort into compost and non composting piles.

We welcomed first timer Vicky; we hope you enjoyed your time with us and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

4 Goodgymers made their way to Bath City farm armed with gardening gloves. Our task should we agree to accept it was to join the alpacas in their enclosure to shovel up their droplets and chop down the nettles and plants.

Task accepted, the team mounted the enclosure (they couldn't find the key!) and began the great British clear up. Watched by passerbys and children visitors they generated 2 wheelbarrows full of weeds and 1 wheelbarrow full of droppings.

Great job team! Although the alpacas were a little disappointed that you didn't feed them :)