We had rival teams of GoodGymmers in Bristol this evening with the runners heading up to Bramble Farm and the walkers across to Redcliffe. Who would get more soaked was the main question but we didn't care because it was daylight! Jo was taking no chances in her three coats

As the runners, including safari-experienced Freya, helped out around the farm, including very deep mud for the pigs in their pen, the walkers were finding pens of their own on the litter pick by the bus stops - very entertainingly an Avon and Somerset Police pen followed by a Crimestoppers one, and a discarded badge which ironically was for "Be an everyday hero, #choosetoreuse".

Far more excitingly, FOUR discarded penguin wrappers were found, each at a different location and each with a different penguin joke. I say joke, thats quite generous. It did lead to Frances only being able to communicate through penguin "jokes" for a while.

Most unexpected finds included a curtain rail and dumbell, the later proving a very good workout for Arron and his Streetmaster Pro pickers, whilst Caroline's pickers had lost an Important Red Bit that holds the trigger in place and was most impressed that a little bit of stick could substitute. Richard G proved very good at ensuring we still had all seven walkers and herding us all back together - sheepdog-in-training for One Area Activator and Her Dog at the Shindig later this year.

Jason rounded off the task with a pose akin to Roddy the Roadman, which no-one except Melanie had ever heard about.

It was GoodGym Eats at The Stable and top runner (with a new haircut) Richard B was mighty happy when all seven walkers joined him at the big table he'd been occupying all on his own.

See you all again next week?

Loads of goodgymers got loads done at Bramble Farm, and brought the sunshine with them. We chopped, lopped, snipped, slipped, slid, bopped, bashed and more. It was great to get so much done piglet proofing one pig pen, and taking down the fence and clearing brambles in the other pen. Epic! Great to see a load of Goodgym Bristol legends as well as some people for their first time.

I've no idea, but today had the experience, again, of being at a parkrun far away (even further than Denmark/Sweden) and seeing a fellow GG t-shirt heading our way - this time Nick, who's moved to Singapore from Tower Hamlets and was one of the active GGers during the lockdowns.

GG and parkrun - such fab communities.

Dig over a patch of ground, they said. A few dry days after some wet ones should have been ideal, shouldn't it?

An uphill run read to an uphill challenge - the weed suppressing cardboard had let a fair few weeds in but the ground felt like sold clay and it was a full-on workout to try to get forks into the ground and then break the weeds out of the clumps of claggy soil, possibly spreading more weed seed than we were removing...

Alice experienced some stone-throwing kids on her way to GoodGym but managed a full-on mindful recovery by going to see the Bramble Farm kids - these ones of the goat variety.

We were small in number but mighty in effect and filled wheelbarrow after after wheelbarrow (technically only two wheelbarrows) full of weeds except the bindweed which we all know goes in the yellow bindweed bucket. Obviously.

There was some drama over passing a spade between GoodGymmers which established a Spade etiquette which became a Spade-iquette which elicited a chorus of "No, I'm Spade-icus". In case that wasn't clear.

Other members of the cooperative were really appreciative and we'd (weed) had a great time as we set off back up the hill with the gorgeous sunshine on our backs.

Another lovely evening with good friends.

Tan about 6k there and 6 back

Somehow we avoided the rain showers that had been torrential at times of the day and set off up the (Vaguely) Northern Slopes' gentle incline.

Bramble Farm is run by a collective carrying on a project originally set up with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall back in 2008 and celebrated 10 years in this Knowle-ledge article. We were helping tidy up for the upcoming Get Growing Garden Trail on Saturday 17th September, when Bramble Farm will be on show along with other projects we support, including Malago's Berry Maze.

Our main mission was to get Abby a lovely profile photo as she's not uploaded one yet... It was hard to keep up with her from the wood shifting to the goat feeding to the leafleting, but we can give her a few options.

Meanwhile, it was bath time for another part of the group, moving a very heavy bath a bit too far and having to move it back a bit. And be told that an 80-year-old had apparently gotten it down the stairs in his home all alone. He must be Superman.

There was much excitement about feeding the pigs and goats, possibly less excitement about cleaning out the Clubhouse and definitely less so for leafletting the local roads with information and the Get Growing Garden Trail whilst on the way back to Queens Square en route to Hoba Kebab for this month's GoodGym Eats.