After our stint up at Nover's steps, the group came down to help Barney and Jackie at the berry maze. The weather was still holding up as we had a relaxing de-weeding session. It was Amy's first time at the berry maze, and I'm sure it was no coincidence that she wore headgear to suit the occasion. We spent the hour chatting, sorting out the posts, and flinging weeds into the abyss, whilst Emma got to do her favourite job of pushing the mower around. Great to see everyone out for the double deed day - keep your eyes on the site as there's another one coming up in December!

It was a gorgeous morning up at Nover's Slopes as 6 goodgymers set about on our first task of the day. I got to do my once a month scything exercise, whilst the rest of the group spread themselves out with the various tasks around such as litter picking, lopering and general tidy up of the areas. The council has recently taken a huge chunk of the brambles back, making it much easier and safer for people(or gardening mad volunteers) to traverse the steps. As if climbing them wasn't hard enough! Thanks for coming everyone, see you all again for next months session I hope!

The now-traditional (well, second time) Halloween visit to Brunswick Cemetery was almost rained off with another impending storm, but GoodGymmers are a hardy bunch and it wasn't raining much after the first deluge.

The runners set off on their longer route and the walkers (outnumbered this week) went direct-ish via the Christmas Market build in Broadmead and found Jo lookong bedraggled in the corner.

We soon set up a system of lampposts and trowellers to clear edges of paths and paving of unwelcome grass.

After a surprising amount of progress, visible after clearing the leaves from paths, we called it a day before the rain could build back up and, with much excitement, headed back to workout to enjoy Sarah's company and cake as she's leaving us for the exciting world of a dairy farm on British Columbia. When her visa cones through, and we're keeping her as long as we can!

Conversation took a strange turn with mention of the Techno Viking and his dancing pecs but was otherwise very normal for GoodGym Bristol!