A golden ball in the hand is worth two in the well trimmed bush

30 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
Mike Roberts
Neil
Alice Whale
Nick Baker
Removed User
Ed Morgan
Molly
Kait Kirwan
Alex Cameron-Smith
Lisa Elliott
James Williams
Harriet Potter
David Schlaphorst
Jack Bradley
Rachel West
Kerry
Guido
Roanna
Lorna
Melanie Young
Georgina
Charlie
Rachel G
Petra Ting
Gulnara B
Fiona Lewis
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Bristol

Tuesday 22nd August 2017

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It was a warm and balmy night (or should that be barmy?) in Brizzle when 30 runners met to take on two tasks spanning the length of the city centre. After meeting and running through some warm ups we split into two teams. Dave's team headed to the Bedminster Patchwork Project to help tidy their South Street patch. My team we more inclined to go further and headed up to the Golden Hill Community Garden (or Golden Balls as I called it in the warm up) to promote their Harvest Fair on the 9th September.

Team Golden Balls

With my trusty back marker Nick team Golden Balls rolled through the streets and really shined when it came to tackling the hills. When we arrived at the community garden we were met by Clare. She gave us an introduction to the great work that the farm do offering people from all walks of life the opportunity to try their hand at gardening. To fundraise for their work they are having a Harvest Fair on Saturday 9th September. We will also be heading back their to help on the day too. We split into 5 groups, 4 flyering the nearby streets and 2 putting up posters to grab the attention of the passers by. Maps were handed out and instructions given before everyone took on the task. Due to long run their and back the time we had was short but that didn't seem tomato to these keen runner beans.

After 15 minutes most of the groups returned and were given a tour of the garden before we left. One group remained AWOL. Neil and Georgina were far too keen and wanted to put up all of the posters they could. Eventually we were all back together and ran back down the hill to Vivo for a stretch off.

The Patchwork Plummers

Dave's Patchwork Plummers fig-ured a shorter run would be a nice option. Taking a fine nine runners over to Bedminster we met up with the lovely Laura from the Patchwork Group, for the second week running, this time on South Street to help tidy up a small garden of land just on the approach to North Street.

Here we were greeted with a fig tree, plum tree, Fat Hen weeds and some bushes to trim plus some grass to cut. A pair of shears were in great demand with Petra tending to the grass, Guido tackling some weeds and Alice (combining shears and loppers, such a pro!) on bush duty.

Ed, Molly, Roanna (a combination of her mother and father's names apparently), Gulnara and Mel made a fine job of clearing the weeds and secateuring (?) the bushes, before we sampled the plums which in the main were a little sour for our liking but Petra seemed to enjoy them as she came back with a stash!

Our shorter run gave us more time on the task and so managed to leave the garden looking much nicer and neater than it had been when we arrived.

Massive well done to everyone who ran along tonight. It was warm, it was tough but you all delivered.



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Roanna

Wed 23rd Aug 2017 at 3:18pm

you guys are awesome! Thanks for a lovely evening! Such a fun way to help the community! see you again soon <3 Roanna (Rowland+Anna) haha xXx

Alex Cameron-Smith

Wed 23rd Aug 2017 at 5:41pm

Borderline acceptable pun Gary ;)

Darren

Fri 25th Aug 2017 at 9:00am

Surely a pun of the month contender? Was gutted I couldn't make it.

Kait Kirwan

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 at 3:58pm

Only just seen that there's photographic evidence of Mr being a crazy cat lady!

Kait Kirwan

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 at 3:59pm

Mr!? I meant 'me'!!

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