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!

What a great Group Run/Walk to welcome three lively new GoodGymmers, back at one of our favourite tasks - and INDOORS!

We were chock-a-block at Workout to meet Nachiket, Tanmay and Joseph for their first GoodGym experience - we hope it's the first of many.

Runners strode of and the walkers were hot on their heels, joined by Richard B "fresh" from their Arc of Attrition exploits at the weekend through horrendous weather. It made for much chat through Castle Park. So much so that we forgot to turn left and walked a longer way to Emmaus than ever before... Well, it is the January Challenge :-)

Xanne was waiting for us and we were in the warehouse of joy for the first time in a while. its all change with the mezzanine being cleared for a fantastic project with St Mungo's running apprenticeships.

Weird and wonderful jobs including boxing and shelving unsorted donations in a tidy semi-organised ways, constructing beds to work out which pieces were missing, clothes "tat or treasure" and carpet tile piling that was more skilled than it looked.

We were busy bees as Xanne knows us of old and is the only task beneficiary that has a back-up list of tasks to keep us going when we've been so efficient to clear part one!

As ever, there were treasures to be discovered, old racist/sexist newspapers, figurines of old naked people cavorting, an evil clown-y figurine and Kingsley bagged himself a keyboard stand, as you do.

We were soon off sgain, many of us to Franco Manca to trade our kilometre Strava pizzas for real pizzas - fantastic Tuesday, everyone!

Runners and Walkers assembled for this evening's mission, talking about all of the exciting things we might sort out today.

The experienced amongst us passing on our wisdom about never picking a tent up as they're too much of a pole-aver (thanks Emma for the pun).

The runners voted 4-0 for the most direct route given the conditions and on arrival were greeted by welcoming staff, with welcoming drinks and biscuits!

Instead of the usual piles of assorted items, the plan was... tents!

The walkers soon joined us and tents, large and small, were pitched, examined and put away, despite every tent bag shrinking which made it trickier to put them back in again!

Ousmane was the star tent-packer-upper, taking only between 1-3 tries to get it in the bag with an occasional roly-poly from Vaguely Northern Darren to flatten the larger tents!

Once finished we headed back to Workout for the good deed debrief and decided that maybe tent-checking is not as bad as we thought.

We were well-prepared for the evening's session back at Hebron Burial Ground, or thought we were, with plans to conquer the social media worlds of Instagram and TikTok, except for not videoing anything.

But we got up to great chopping with first-timers Emma, Angela and Aaron getting stuck in despite the "light drizzle" making everything a little more slippery than we'd hoped but turning out to be good practice for the black ice in Queen Square on our way back.

There was a wall of GoodGym activity across the upper part of the burial ground as we get ever closer to the far boundary, snipping and slicing and chopping and raking away the brambles, doing our best to keep warm on a chilly night.

Chatting kept us going with Time Travel and rehabilitating tyrants by showing them love as children, flights to Barbados turning around mid-Atlantic due to goings-on in Venezuela, comedy clubs and gigs around Bristol and how lovely Bristol. And GoodGym Bristol especially.

All rounded off with a bit of skating on the black ice and warming up at Workout with tea or cider - same again next week?