Good weather and a great team of GoodGymmers and local volunteers meant oodles of progress in the outside green space, clearing ivy, looping and copping trees and shrubs and unearthing a LOT of litter and recycling, including a bowl to add to the growing "found crockery" collection.

Fabulous to have Sasha join us for her first session, hopefully the first of many!

Delicious soup for the volunteers finished off the session with the aches setting in after sitting down for lunch. Spring is definitely here.

Lots to get on with on a day that was almost spring like. There was litter picking to be done around the viaduct and in the Moon Temple, and removal of pesky jagged brambles that are everyone’s nemesis. One team of de-bramblers took the top of the viaduct and the other scampered up the hill to help give the wildflowers a chance.

Welcome today to Andrea for their first task 🙂

At the end we all gathered for the customary tea/coffee and biscuits and chat.

Until next time…

We have made so much difference to the winter view of the Burial Ground - lots of the previously-hidden gravestones can now be seen as soon as you enter the green space as the bramble forest has been cut to just a few inches - now to see what happens in Spring...

We were joined by Jen for the first time, a recruit from Greville Smyth junior parkrun volunteering, who quickly joined in the chopping mission to find the ground as well as the gravestones. Operation Find The Wall is now underway, having successfully cleared all the way to the far path.

Soundtrack for the evening was mostly experiences of volunteering at Glastonbury (trying to stop festival-goers contaminating the watercourses by encouraging them to use the provided loos) to childhood experiences of being blamed for things which a sibling had done, including sibling's graffiti-ing walls or windowsills in a less-than-sophisticated way. But also times the GoodGymmer had been the sibling causing the mischief...

Lots of chat and lots of chopping, Richard B as ever getting as much done in their Solo spot as the rest of us put together. The Whirling Dervish of Bristol GoodGym.

Time to pack up and move out, Vaguely Northern Darren went back to look for Melanie's missing non-gardening glove which was mysteriously found under the now quite soggy lights in her bag - if only there was a light on whilst putting the lights in the bag...

The rain and chill had lessened considerably for the journey back and we were lulled into a fall sense of dryness and warmth at Workout as we enjoyed our post-run/walk tea, hot chocolate, chai or pint. Until we were putting soggy hats, gloves and jackets back on. Roll on the bramble-growth of Spring but also warmer rain!

Fantastic start to Friday... 6 GoodGymers met on a slightly damp and cold morning and cleared leaves from the pavement and kerbside outside Windmill Hill City Farm. It was amazing how much was cleared in just 40 minutes, making access to farm safer. Great job all!

Helen - thanks for sharing some of your pics, love the golden leaves!