After several weeks braving the rainfall it was great to have some decent weather! Windmill hill city farm is always a pleasure, today we were cutting back hedges, sweeping up straw, weeding and replenishing the gravel pit.

It was great to have so many new faces and I hope you enjoyed the task as much as I did! We even had time to stop for a quick cuppa and walk around the farm itself. We definitely timed this task well, baby goats, piglets, fluffy cows - whats not to love?

And to top it all off after a month of trying we finally got into mud dock and satisfied our cravings for veggie breakfast!

Goodgym put down their gardening tools and brought their singing voices to Lockleaze Community Orchard this saturday lunch time.
With an unusual medley of traditional wassailing songs, children's verses and sea shanties.

This was some peoples first wassail and others first GoodGym deed, hopefully the first of many.

Thank you to the thirty wonderful Wassailers who joined us to sing songs to bring luck to the community and the orchard in 2020! A special thanks to Dawn and Claire Mitchell for baking delicious cakes and mulling cider for everyone!!
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A lovely sunny Saturday morning saw several of us set off from Mud Dock at “Dave Pace”, allowing Liam to catch us up as we approached Novers Steps at the Northern Slopes where we met up with some other GoodGymers along with Julia and Les of the Northern Slopes Initiative to continue clearing the vegetation and litter from near to the steps to allow them more space to plant some trees.

Armed with an array of tools from loppers, shears, slashers, Austrian Scythes and a new tool - a tree popper which Chris (who else) made a bee line for - most of the gang spent an hour cutting back grass and brambles, whilst the remainder took up litter pickers to clear up lots of cans, bottles, packets and wrappers plus an old umbrella.

By the time our hour was up, Les reckoned we’d cleared enough space to plant a couple of trees and Chris had fallen in love with the tree popper!

After drinks and biscuits a larger group ran back to Mud Dock, satisfied with our work and enjoying the respite from the recent wind and rain.

it was great to have new runners Lexi and Jacob along for the first time who both got really stuck in to the task.

Popper job!