Lovely sunny evening, nice time of day for this work as the afternoon sun is beginning to wane. Right at the back of St John's Court is a lovely garden area used by the residents, in fact some residents rooms have French Windows that open directly on to it.

Our job today was to tidy this area up, there were weeds in the cracks, trees and invasive plants where they shouldn't have been and, as usual since GoodGym are involved, fun to be had everywhere.

Mary, Tanya and Meyrick were on hand to carry out this mission, and we did a brilliant job.

Making this place look nice for the residents is in the Mission description, and that is exactly what we did. Good job all.

Three GoodGymmers joined Grow for Life to spruce up their tool shed with a lovely lick of black paint. We always enjoy coming to their wonderful walled garden where they provide social and therapeutic gardening sessions for those living with low confidence, anxiety, depression or isolation. With lots of fun chat including the origins of phrases such as 'cutting the mustard' we can confirm that Bennath, Ruth and Tanya definitely cut the mustard today! With the repainted shed looking very smart we were well rewarded by our hosts with cool melon and iced drinks which were so welcome on a hot day. Great job all and looking forward to the next session in August, sign up to really make a difference to this small Bath charity.

Twas a rare event in this endless heat, rain falling from the sky. Refreshing, nourishing, wonderful rain. It may even have deterred some GoodGymmers from attending, "What is this scary stuff falling from the sky?", they said, "Tis is winter already?".

Nope, just some convective precipitation formed by a passing 'trough' kicking up the moist air and spinning up some cumulus.

It did limit what we could do today though, I think some painting was on the cards but niet. Instead we tended to the front of the building, which we've done before (remember planting Huey, Duey and Louis? and then Gary, Mark, Howard, Robbie and Jason?).

But stuff grows quickly innit? It had been a few months and the whole area needed a workover, resident live and love this area so it is important that we help keep it nice for them.

Have to admit, it was a little refreshing in the rain as well. Anyone remember the 7Up advert from the 80s? 'Rain, Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain..."?