Hooray for Gaol Ferry Bridge being open again and hugely reducing the distance to BS3 Community's Southville Centre!

After a good old chat (running and cake-based, obviously) in Queen Square, plus a bit of admin and warming up, the running and walking groups set off in the "will it/won't it" evening weather. Many cats were seen by the walking group which led to a discussion about fat shaming cats being wrong, although one cat was really quite large, cat fact.

The running group beat the walkers there (who'd've thought?) and met with Hugh who artistically presented cakes before we'd even helped!

It was a return to brushwork - sweeping and painting, this time a darker oak colour instead of the cedar, plus a new blue for a boat! The boat has replaced the two teepees which apparently both collapsed despite all our wood preserving (and climbing on the big one).

A bench had been moved (and not yet collapsed) so we could access the back of it for the first time.

The playground/garden was looking really smart as the time ticked away to twenty to eight, more cakes and a temporary goodbye to Hugh who's moving to a new job and back to school and threatening to join GoodGym!

Back to Queen Square for drinks, chat and artistic sweet wrapper arrangements/destruction as we worked through the cake and chocolates from the previous evening's community mission to Hannah More Primary School, or HMP School as it says on their wheelbarrow...

For the second week on a row we had a late notice task cancellation but the stars aligned perfectly for an urgent visit to Redcliffe Nursery School and Children's Centre who were being visited by Ofsted the next day and wanted the outside spaces looking as good as possible despite the downpours of the last few days. They also mentioned trusting us with the power-washer that was confiscated from us on a previous visit as we made too much noise whilst a governors' meeting was also going on.

With the walkers taking a direct route and the runners setting off in the opposite direction, the walkers sneakily ticked off a couple of extra unicorns on the route and are beating the runners 10-9. The runners don't know about this ongoing competition yet so we'll see who reads this report...

With a small courtyard and a larger playground, we were soon busy sweeping, weeding, composting and power-washing between moving large pieces of play equipment and small trucks for transporting sand back to the sandpit. Sonehow it stayed dry for the entire task except for Matt and Vicky power-washing!

A lot of staff were in preparing for the Ofsted visit and we hope we brought a smile or two to their faces as we productively larked around in the playground, having a great time ourselves. It was a fantastic visit to list the school's spirits as we declared them Outstanding.

And then we went for lovely pizza (or salad) to Franco Manca as we hadn't chatted enough yet - thanks for organising Eats, Clo!