It was a glorious evening after a rainy, gloomy day in Bristol and it was fabulous to welcome Matt T to his first GG good deed and Marianne to her first Group Run. The weather is ALWAYS this good on a Tuesday evening, honest!

We arrived at Brunswick after a slightly extended (intentional) run and set about clearing weeds from a flowerbed and different bit of path, all staying in the sunshine and enjoying a good old catch up including Jenny recounting her wedding and honeymoon stories.

We finished off with the space looking much tidier and pulled the seed heads off lots of creeping buttercup between the tombs. Everything was chucked in a big dumpy bag and dragged across the grass to make it easy for the Council to collect.

We took the shorter route home to Queen Square and continued the chat and enjoyment of the evening sunshine on the terrace at Workout - a perfect GoodGym evening!

Twenty whole GoodGymmers defied the rain forecast and were rewarded with perfect running weather to return to the lovely (if slightly overgrown) Brunswick Cemetery. It was great to welcome Natàlia to her first good deed and marvel that Andy had managed to create a second profile for his second good deed so had to complete the online training twice too! The runners were soon off in an Alice Rose sandwich - Alice Rose Whale at the front and Alice Rose Dalrymple back marking - a very effective method we recommend to other areas.

With the addition of "high quality" hand forks and rakes from Poundland (£1.50 each - inflation has arrived at Poundland), the cemetery was a sea of red fighting greenery as oodles of bindweed, sticky bud, grass and dandelions were transported away from the flower beds and paths into the dumpy sacks which were soon full enough for Dom to take on a core workout jumping on/in them.

Whilst Di from the Friends group chopped back the last of the big ornamental grasses, the spiral path was being cleansed and widened (it turns out were going to be able to double the width of most of the path we've found so far, but not more than that, Tim!

Sara was in her element grabbing huge handfuls of bindweed and sticky bud and chasing roots back through the ground as far as the eye could see.

Dom and Jason took on the task of digging out bramble roots and small sycamores armed with only a border fork and trowel - astoundingly successfully.

We didn't really want to leave, except it was our monthly GoodGym Eats arranged this month by Shreena to the new HOBA Kebab, where we found Art with his hand in a glass of ice - he'd skipped GoodGym to go to his unicycle class (no, really) and sprained a finger - that'll teach him.

Another fabulous night of community, progress and a lot of laughs.

A bitter wind was blowing through Queen Square as GoodGym Bristol gathered for their Tuesday night fun.

It was great to see Sophie back after a "short break away", hopefully GoodGymming and parkrunning can become a habit!

We set to on a different (and very straight) path from our normal spiral finding, rediscovering the gravel under years of mulch and weeds. With just one fork and one spade there was competition for deep root digging - brambles, sycamores and dock were expertly extracted whilst everyone else made fantastic progress with the trowels.

A brand new dumpy bag was soon full to brimming, fortunately it was moved to the path before it got too heavy!

Another great evening's progress with the Friends of Brunswick Cemetery and a run back just as it was starting to get dark - here's to lots more light evenings of GoodGymming!

It was a bit soggy as GoodGym Bristol set out from Queen Square via the installations of the Bristol Light Festival, aiming for Brunswick Cemetery.

A whistle-stop tour, looking enviously at the illuminated umbrellas if the guides, it definitely brightened the spirits.

At the cemetery the rain got worse and worse but the spiral and re-laid turf got better and better! Passers by were also slightly intrigued by the soggy volunteers gardening in the dark, we are very used to it now!

After much exploration we headed back to the Square and on to GoodGym Eats at a vegetarian Chinese restaurant where many unexpected situations were discussed, especially the numerous occurrences of unexpected eggs.

We'd dried off a bit by the time we set out in the rain to get home, full of cheer and Chinese goodness.

An uncharacteristically calm and dry evening greeted GoodGym Bristol in Queen Square, no longer underwater as it had been with the weekend's storms.

A bit of chat and warming up before the run over to Brunswick Cemetery, one of our favourite spaces, for more spiral finding and general weeding along with our special surprise guest, Sam from BCfm, our community radio station. who'd heard about us and wanted to hear what it's really like. Jer had popped over from GoodGym Bath to see how we do Run Leading and group runs in Bristol, too - organised chaos at times!

We soon set to work finding more of the not-very-secret-because-it's-on-Google-maps spiral hidden under the grass and relocating the turf to the bits that should have grass but don't. Full on recycling in the park.

The weeds are already growing so there was sticky bud pulling in the big flowerbed, too, whilst Jo from the Friends group said how much positive feedback they've been getting from passers-by, everyone appreciating the improvements the care and attention is making.

We're looking forward to seeing the progress in daylight - we always think we've left it tidy, in the dark!

A small but perfectly formed group of GoodGymmers left Queens Square for Brunswick Cemetery on a damp Tuesday night. One run leader and six back markers - the ultimate mix?!

We soon arrived and started kitting up with lights, trowels and bags to set out on our intrepid search for The Path. Crunchie noises are good (and Crunchies taste lovely) and soggy noises are bad (and no-one likes a soggy bottom, though we all had soggy knees).

The spiral is definitely growing and with people each taking on their own section of path, there were moments reminiscent of the Channel Tunnel breakthrough as gloved hands met under the turf thats been hiding the path.

Having re-used the grass on an area thats missing its own, we were soon packing up and trying to take a photo of progress - much easier the next morning!

After the run back to Queen Square and a proper wash of muddy hands, we carried on the chatting with talk of Christmas presents including the fizzy water making machine...