Melanie Young

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Twisted Weeds around the Plot

Monday 30th June

Written by Dushyant Goel

Removing brambles and buttercups from the cemetery - it's a dead serious business. I reached the cemetery at 9:00 and found Melanie, Di and M removing weeds. We cleared the path around a few plots.

We de-flowered the buttercups - its seed got everywhere and it was a pain to get it off our gloves and clothes. The brambles put up resistance at being pulled but we nipped them at the root.

Di showed us pictures of the space from a decade ago. Looking at the overgrowth I could appreciate her grave concerns.

The sun had been hiding behind the clouds and came out just as we were finishing. Looking at the the cleared graves in bright sunlight lifted our spirits. We collected up the brambles and green waste and laid them to rest, at a convenient place for gardeners to collect.

It was totally worth digging in. With a few more session we will bring the place back to life.

Thanks, Dushyant

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Alice Dalrymple

Expected Item in the Bagging Area

Sunday 29th June

Written by Melanie Young (she/her)

Alice rescued Melanie's bag from Greendale Farm Shop - success!

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David Head

Surfing a home run

Saturday 28th June

Written by David Head

A warming up morning greeted 4 GGers and a lovely group of surfers against sewage. We sweeped across the Avon banks with our pickers wading through the long grass and finding loads of litter in the clear verges including a toy base ball bat to stimulate the pun. In the end we wheeled back 8 full bags of rubbish and bulky items. A big home run of rubbish saved from the Avon. Awesome 👌

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Ed Newman

The Garden of Weedin’ …. Shia Surprise!

Wednesday 25th June

Written by Bristol runner

What is the difference between a chard and a beetroot and do beetroots and carrots (loosely) have root in the name as you eat the root? One of many questions we had this evening.

More weeding of the beds this evening as we avoided the punnets(?) of potatoes and the other veg. I wonder if that blackbird found the slug…

We also got to see the totem replacement for the cockerel and marvelled at the carving.

Until next time…

Ohhh, as an added bonus... look out for Shia LeBeouf!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI

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All You Need Is Loaf

Tuesday 24th June

Written by Bristol runner

Aldi had all the items that Ms C needed to remain stocked up on food for another week - apart from bread 🍞

Managed to find the small wholemeal loaf that she likes in CoOp instead 😁

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Jason ThorneRoddy BlackDushyant GoelMichael HeafTim

Shank you (?), that was a knife evening

Tuesday 24th June

Written by Bristol runner

It really was a (was a was a was a) knife evening. We set off sharply. The blade runners and knife walkers arrived… We picked through every blade… of grass. We carved through the park like a hot knife through butter. We… I give up with the knife puns now. We didn’t get all the litter but I’ll get to the point and cut to the chase…

Thanks for helping write the report everyone, this will only make sense to us. For some added information we went to Spith Street park and Dame Emily park and did some litter picking 👀

What a first session for Michael.

Shanks for the memories.

Until next time…

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