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

A very warm evening greeted Bristol GoodGym with Matt making his first appearance - hopefully the first of many!

Runners and walkers set off for Brunswick Cemetery after the usual health and safety chat with the plan to take out as many buttercup seed heads before they could scatter to make more weeds next year. The hot weather has meant they're "ripening" really fast this year.

A breakdown in communication meant the runners had started on pathfinding the lovely spiral that keeps disappearing with some swapping to the buttercup blitz.where we filled black bags and were still only halfway through the park!

It was soon time to head back to Workout for a well-earned drink or two to chat a bit more about life, the universe and everything. More to follow next week!

Who doesn't like to clear brambles and bindweed on a balmy spring evening? We absolutely love it, and so does Dushyant who came for his difficult second good deed and even Jordan managed to stay awake to come this week! We made light work of the task and cleared loads and loads and we reckon the weeds have had enough now and won't grow back! The inaugural 'jumping after 3' award, goes to Richard who was the only person to achieve the minimum required height, this young man will go far and I see a gold medal in the next Olympics!

Will it rain… won’t it rain. It didn’t. Four goodgymers met like the horsemen of the apocalypse, but more wholesome to do some good in Brunswick square. Much weed was pulled and we had a nice chat with the local constabulary. A couple of hours in the sunshine and we were done.

Until next time…

It’s that time of year when the buttercups go balmy and set seed, giving us a limited time to capture the seeds before they create next year’s weeds - two bin bags’ full collected.

Somehow buttercup season came and went within a week, so the insects have had their nectar and the buttercups were readying to spread their seeds EVERYWHERE. GoodGym to the rescue to start deadheading all the buttercups we could find in two hours, which was just leas than half the buttercups in the Cemetery...

Five bin bags and counting...