It was great to welcome George to GoodGym Bristol and Brunswick Cemetery, where there was (as ever) a variety of tasks to get our teeth into.

Having started on some deep-rooted weeds on the spiral path whilst I was nearby weeding some of the shrubs that some “helper” had strummed to ground level in early spring, we discovered the heatwave had revealed A METAL EDGE marking the end of the grass and beginning of flowerbed. This was declared VERY EXCITING INDEED and George showed his flexibility by switching to de-grassing the bit we now know should be flowerbed.

Such exciting times, and together with 5 of the Friends of Brunswick, we left a huge pile of brambles, branches and bags of weeds for the Council to collect.

Brilliant to meet you at the community mission, George - here’s to many more!

Back to see Mrs C in Lyde Green, this time to assemble some cupboard shelf organisers and some miniature sliding tables. 👷‍♂️

Great to catch up with Mrs C and her daughter once more ☺️

A return visit to help Mr B in Kingswood in his garden.

A gentle opener by re-strimming the front garden and a quick tidy up of the bush.

Mr B then showed me the back garden and expected me to walk away. The strimmer couldn’t hack it and again he expected me to walk away.

However, when all else fails, reach for the shears and you can at least make a bit of a difference. 😉

A return visit to Mrs S in Fishponds and it was lovely to see that she’d received some more help in her garden since my last visit.

We were having trouble communicating, partly because English is not Mrs S’s first language, but also because she is hard of hearing but she was definitely pointing to a pair of shears and then the top end of the garden, so i snipped and raked away for 90 minutes.

I thought she referred to me as Superman until I realised she was actually referring to someone from Weston-super-Mare who had given her some help in the garden recently! 😂

2 GG ers met St the farm oasis this morning. Its so lovely yo see the farm in full bloom and the abundance all around. We cleared weeds in the beds, discovering wild strawberries underneath nets of bind weed. Also did some plant ID. We were minted by the plants already in our vocabulary and a good sniff of the mint varieties and a lemon balm was sinuslisciously delicious. Then after disposing of the weeds a caffeine intake was done with a joy of summer inthe air🌞

Shopping for Mr D