It was great to have Joshua finally able to join us after two inner tube incidents the previous two weeks - welcome, melon specialist!

We were due to be helping the the preparations for St Werburgh's Community Centre's Party in the Park but they weren't as far forward in the planning as they'd hoped so instead we tidied around the building and watered the plants plus testing the really-quite-narrow slide. The plant room itself was found but kept safe...

This is one of our longer walk/runs, so it was soon time for the walking group to set off, managing to get to Castle Park before the runners caught up, allowing a photo opportunity of the runners feeling the need to keep running uphill - very impressive.

Leaflets promoting the Party in the Park were distributed to shops on the way back with some more left with GoodGym locals to drop into more places over the next couple of days.

Back at Workout, we returned to last week's thrilling game of "guess Mariannes middle names" relying on the underrated strategy of knowing the last letter was in the second half if the alphabet. We eventually succeeded, but we're keeping it a secret. One middle name to go, the excitement is already at fever pitch.

Post Park run on a sunny Saturday morning 4 Goodgymers met up to spread the word about the relaunch of Hillfields Community Centre. As it was so lovely and hot this was most definitely a walk task rather than a sprint, but even so, by the time 12pm had rolled around we had delivered our leaflets and covered all but one of our allocated roads. We headed back to the community centre where we were invited to share a lovely lunch with the other volunteers who had been working in the community garden. I'm sure there will be further opportunities to help Hillfields again in the future, so keep an eye out and sign up!

Spent part of Saturday afternoon close to the River Trym, helping Mrs D in her garden - trimming the edges and cutting back some shrubs and weeds, whilst admiring her lovely flowers 🌺

I find it very easy to do very little on hot summer days, so needed a reason to get out and get some exercise this morning.

Thankfully the wonderful Mr W needed his lawn mower and it was a pleasure to help this lovely gentleman 🤗

Already humid by 8 this morning, four of us set about tidying up the gravel that should be in the play pit but that they like to throw outside.

Soil sieves were a bit of a game changer for sifting out the dirt/dust along with the weeds to chuck mainly gravel back in the pit.

Good luck to Jade with her weekend events and thinking of David and Helen at work tomorrow!

Heatwave 4 - and another visit to Hebron Burial Ground to help reclaim the space from the huge amount of brambles that have taken over.

Everyone walked as it was over 40 degrees and Gerry kindly provided chilled water on arrival with a choice of still or sparkling!

Another zone of the green space was selected, in the shade, and the chopping back was begun, a mix of snipping and whacking through the brambles taller than we are, effectively strimming them as close to the ground as we could - no chance of getting roots out yet but the path and individual grave stones becoming more visible with each visit.

French and German were practised for no discernible reason, showing we can all count and ask our way to places we don't want to go to. And order beer.

Another drink and a walk back down (only slightly hilly) to our "home" at Workout for drinks over looking the harbour and Marianne's apple cake to celebrate her 87th good deed (building up to her 100th?) or because she had loads of windfalls. Or maybe both.

Much entertainment was found with a game of the traditional "guess the middle name(s)" of people present or associated with people present. Hours of fun and we're not done yet, so that's something else to look forward to on future group runs.