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Bristol

Tuesday 14th May 2019

Report written by Shona Buchanan

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Welcome to Sophie, Diane, Ellie and Chris who joined us for their first GoodGym Bristol Group Runs tonight!

We quickly split up into two groups. Patrick led The Hardcores on an 8 kilometre return trip to Easton Community Garden. They set a speedy pace and made it out there and back in time to leave 25 minutes to get through all of the tasks Nat had set them including weeding all of the bark at the Community Garden to help it stay strong. According to Nat, you guys were

an awesome bundle of energy and loveliness and got the jobs done at lightning speed! 🎉

Meanwhile...

A sea(gul)l of a-poo-val

The rest of us set off on a 6 kilometre trip to St Werburgh's Community Centre. Alice was deemed the luckiest of us all on the way as 26 of us dodged a seagull's toilet trip and it landed right down her (previously beautifully clean) GoodGym t-shirt. Alice wasn't sure she agreed on how lucky she felt...

When we arrived at the Centre we were diverted while they set up and we got the chance to fit in a fitness session before we got started on the task (Alice's luck was obviously rubbing off on the whole group). We split into two teams to play circuits Cat and Mouse. Well done to the Cats who caught their Mice, while the other group were remaining equal despite some questionable counting and corner cutting going on.

We got back to the Centre and split into two groups: a team headed out in the evening sun to deliver some Helpful Peeps leaflets to the local area. Another team tackled the outdoor area of the Centre to dig up, brush up and bag up all the remaining rubber pieces from around the play area and give everywhere a good tidy-up. In just 15 minutes the place looked a lot better!

We headed back to base to feast on Claire's super delicious belated 50th Good Deed celebration cakes in the remaining sunshine. Credit to Matt for the pun!


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Easton Community Garden
Your community garden

Easton Community Garden is open to anyone who would like to grow vegetables, fruit and herbs in a beautiful, quiet corner of Easton / Whitehall in Bristol. We encourage wildlife and use natural growing methods. You don’t need to know anything about gardening to come and join us, we all learn together and look it up in a book if we are not sure. We meet to work on the garden every Thursday throughout the year from 11am. There is no membership, no cost and you don’t have to commit to anything, just come when you can, but we hope it will be often. We are a sociable group, stop for tea in the shelter and share a vegetarian picnic lunch. At the end of the day we share out whatever harvest is ready to take home.

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Attendees
Lisa Elliott
Richard Breakspear
Alice Whale
Ruth watkinson
Shona Buchanan
Alice Dalrymple
Jack Bradley
Georgina
Shreena Parmar
Liam Scott
Kait Kirwan
Abigail Rowlatt
Tim
VaguelyNorthernDarren
Julie M
Laura Spencer
Zdeni Cervena
Russ Cahill
Freddie
Lee Jones
Phill Stone
Chris Palmer
Sophie
Georgia Merrell
Clem Teagle
Katie Kelly
Olivia G
Lisa Pearce
Lia Herbert
Sarah Taylor
Simon Freakley
Alice Goodwin
Ross Hooper
Maz Wallace
Nicky
Paulina Dubiel
Diane Remmy
Ellie
Chris Lever
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Alice Dalrymple

Tue 14th May 2019 at 10:50pm

I think I have just found my new GG profile photo!

Shona Buchanan

Tue 14th May 2019 at 10:53pm

Please do, I love it!!

Richard Breakspear

Tue 14th May 2019 at 10:55pm

No, really, please do use that photo! 😆

VaguelyNorthernDarren

Tue 14th May 2019 at 11:25pm

That’s the last time I pose for a picture for Patrick, he never gets them uploaded in time and I’m sure he’s just keeping them for personal use! 😂