Ah, the joy of not meltingly hot nor drenchingly wet weather. Perfect for a spit of checking out front doors and their letterboxes to spread the word about home insulation information available at drop-in events at St Werburghs Community Centre.

Rasa and Matty (Matt/Matthew) picked a great, chatty session for their first GoodGym task and we hope to see them again soon.

Exploring bits of Bristol we've never seen before is always an added benefit of leafleting and the workout of steps and bending to ridiculously low letterboxes leads to hugely increased respect for our post people. And cats. The opportunity to stroke random cats.

The runners headed to the Centre to collect their leaflets and pick off some of the terraced streets i St Werburghs, the walkers made use of the leaflets Melanie had picked up on Monday for the first delivery session with Richard and popped to Montpelier.

Many leaflets left at residents' residences, it was off to the soon-to-close Raj on King Street for a lovely, very funny if very slow GG Eats with a stand-up robotic-specialist waiter, big spoons, vegan paneer, nutty boiled rice and many other highlights.

More GoodGymming next week?

A grave day for brambles when GoodGym comes to town. What are we doing today, Brain? The same thing we do every week, Pinky! Armed with our usual plethora of tools we snipped, whacked and nibbled away at the undergrowth at Hebron Burial Ground. There was important cat business to be had and a myriad of topics to discuss. Snail orgy anyone?

and now for something completely different:

If a cat sat in a hat would it like that? If a cow said hi to you now would it say ciao?

Personally I think a cat would but the cow one needs more research. Maybe just Italian cows and ones that are very fancy. Anyway thats enough stream of consciousness writing for today.

Until next time…

We trusted the weather forecast to be wrong and wrong it was - a break in the light rain made for optimum weather to clear moss from the paths though not the grass from the beds.

it was lovely to be joined by Joannafor her first GoodGym task - lovely to meet you and have your help and company.

Joanna joined the walkers whilst the runners disappeared out of sight, skilfully led by Richard Band back marked by Caroline whilst Vaguely Northern Darren did a bit of walk leading but started to deviate into the longer running route instead of the direct walking route so back-marked instead. Jason was resting his legs before his first half-marathon event on Sunday - good luck with the Bath Half, locally known as Running the Bath. And Edhas a volunteering place at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow so we're already speculating in the kit hell be getting - presumably waterproof as its a UK games...

The runners were already deep into the flower bed when the walkers arrived, grateful that David had volunteered to carry a couple of our work lights on his last GoodGym session before travelling on a yoga skills exchange for a fee months - what an adventure!

After a hit of grass re-laying on the tracks left by a vehicle, we moved to the far path for some very satisfying mass-moss clearance with Richard G, Roddy and Caroline filling each others' blue rubble bags at speed with Becky making everything look super tidy before we headed back to Workout for tea and cake. And then it started raining [insert smug face here]

A beautiful evening for a run/walk to a new task beneficiary - well, new for Tuesday evenings, it's one we've been visiting on the last few Sundays.

The Green House is owned by the Council but they'd had to pretty-much abandon the building due to costs. It's an eco-friendly, green-roof wooden building that's now leased to Xquisite Spaces who have big plans for community events as well as renting out the studio and other indoor space. They've spent the winter repairing the inside (including rotten wooden floor and many leaking pipes) and for Spring have turned to the outside space which had become incredibly overgrown.

Also part of the lease are six parking spaces and hedge line, two of which have been used as a dumping ground for building waste and the holly bushes have thrived on neglect. This bodes well for the future, just with a little more taming!

Lifting, shifting and brutal cutting back are GoodGym Bristol key skills and over 60 minutes the unloved-looking spaces were transformed into actual parking/utility spaces with plants that can thrive and years of leaf mulch skillfully chucked under the bottom of the hedging plants/trees. Lots of very old litter was also pulled out of the now-quite-a-lot-thinner holly and sorted for recycling or actual litter and the green waster was added to the pile for collection.

Then the rocks - from the builders' rubble dump, lots of bits of tarmac, concrete and a few bricks to lift and shift, some braving heaving lifts with spades (newly acquired by Lou from Xquisite Spaces from a second-hand tool search), others grabbing handfuls and the system leading to the Rock-Queue - thank to Frances for the pun, I'm sure Jason is jealous it wasn't him but pretty confident he'll find ways to get it into conversation over the next week or so.

Having wowed Lou with our ability to get weird things done whilst having a good time, we were off to Workout or, for those feeling a bit peckish, Rosa's Thai for our monthly Eats - a local eatery that doesn't mind a group of sweaty runners turning up for a quick bite and a lot more chat. Possibly the speediest service we've ever had, and NO RAIN AT ALL - more of this, please!