It was still daylight, with a beautiful sunset to appreciate as the runners and walkers left the cobbles outside Workout to head for St Werburgh's Community Centre for Caroline's 500th good deed - mild congratulations, Caroline, who doesn't think it's worthy of a cheer as it's just turning up, but this week she'd not only turned up, she'd brought vegan chocolate brownies - hooray!

We were helping the centre prepare for their Green Feast event on Saturday - emergency counting of spoons and forks (the easy bit) and detangling two whole boxes of bunting - some cotton, some cardboard and LOADS of thin, fraying fabric ones that were knottier than a knotty thing. I can't think of a knotty thing - answers in the comments section, please.

With a time-lapse video showing how productive we were, it did take the whole time we were there and we left the bunting so tidy that each individual section was lovingly rolled up and tied with string and it all fitted into the Hamper of Bunting - maybe we'll be asked back to pack it away again instead of de-tangling it before the next event?!

Back to Workout, except there was speed dating on, so a diversion to the very warm Bar + Block upstairs seating area (who knew?) for aforementioned brownies, cups of tea and other tipples. Much happiness all round.

Puns don’t kill people, wrappers do (not really)

What a wrappers delight! Now what you hear is not a test, I'm wrappin' to the beat… (I’ll stop now)

The task this evening at St Werburghs Community Centre was a welcome indoor one, and what a task. Eighty presents to wrap and an hour (ish) to do it in, ready, set, GO!

No spoilers (unless you look at the photos) on what we wrapped in case the wrong person reads this but there were decisions to be made.Tough decisions. Once we got into a rhythm we raced through them and before long we had finished. What a fun task. Ho Ho Ho, I’m off to room 7 for a lecture in my clown suit.

Until next time…

Six brave GoodGym heroes came out when the weather was atrocious! The weather surprisingly cleared so we remained dry while we weeded, and used the stepping stones in the underpass. (despite Richard and Caroline recreating the iconic Gandalf/Balrog battle!). Four runners made it all the way back and were treated to some excellent donuts from Ed as it was his birthday! Delicious and of the 11 donuts, 4 people ate a total of 9 :-).

Three shiny new GoodGymmers joined the Bristol Group Run which, this week, was 40% "starts with" F - Faye and Finbar were the new Fs on the block with Ciaran being the newest GoodGymmer for only a couple of minutes in Queen Square.

All three were up for joining the running group so set off with Vaguely Northern Darren in the lead, Richard B backmarking and Freya and Timtryingvto match each other's stride length.

By the time the walking group of Melanie, Richard G and Frances arrived (having not been accosted by any small dogs taking umbridge at Richard G this week) the front of St Werburgh's Community Centre was already looking less weedy, or at least all the weeds were now in piles waiting for the two very-well-used brooms to sweep by.

As is so often the case with GoodGym Bristol group runs, a yoga class was taking place inside the Community Centre, right by where we were weeding and we tried really hard to be quiet-ish but we do get carried away with our chatting... Anyway, should there have been a fire, the yogis escape route would have been much less weedy than before our GG skills had been deployed.

We were soon tidying up and enjoying the Lime and Cardamom biscuits Frances had kindly baked and brought along to celebrate her 102nd good deed - very tasty, looking forward to the recipe being added to the comments. It was inly the mention of biscuits that finally made Freya and Ciaran finally stop sweeping and tidying, such dedication to the task.

We were soon Workout-bound, back through the parks and streets of Bristol and into Club Haus where we sat out by the river by choice and not because there was speed dating at the tables inside. Lots more time to chat and hear about goings on, especially Richard B's bonkers long-distance running and Darren and Melanie's long-distance travelling to parkruns.

Another great evening, everyone, and already looking forward to the next one.

The runners were outnumbered by the walkers two to one for the adventure to St Werburgh's Community Centre with Vaguely Northern Darren and Ed already hard at it when the walkers reached the "King/Queen of the Castle" bridge from Riverside Park.

The walkway around the building was one of the many areas that's seen an explosion of weeds with the warm(-ish) and decidedly wet weather. We were soon widening the walkways again and having many-a deep philosophical discussion including how to spell "doolalley", whether it stems from doodle-alley and why small creatures seem to take an aggressive bee line for Richard G. We slso all learned more about msle and female courgette flowers as well as poppies and their similarity to some sort of banana - the name escapes me.

A quick tidy up and end-of-task photo followed, including Frances who wasn"t in the pre-task "we're actually all in red t-shirts" photo, suggested by Jason. For the record, Frances was also early to the meet up, just not quite as early, and we set off at 6.25 as it's "a bit of a way" even without the lively tour checking out future potential GoodGym tasks, which was really enjoyed by everyone.

Top work and great chatting!

*in depth research post-run shows its actually doolally with dubious empire roots%2C%20ultimately%20from)

It was almost not raining, and then only drizzly mizzly on the 15 GoodGymmers who artived in Queen Square for a lovely Group Run or Walk.

Not only were Gaia and Genevieve back for a second deed, Will and Seb were the first to arrive for their very first visits to GoodGym - we hope to see you both again very soon, in your matching outfits!

The runners outnumbered the walkers this week and 9 GoodGymmers were sandwiched between Run Leaders Vaguely Northern Darren and Richard B as they set off to St Werburgh's Community Centre and the four walkers set about hunting litter on a walk across the city centre.

The runners navigated the flooded subway via the handily-placed Bricks of Dryness (BoDs) and set about tidying the play area in St Werburghs. We definitely didn't touch the plant that had the 'Do not touch' sign on it, but we did clear all of the soil, remove the weeds, and tidy toys up, as requested.

Meanwhile, litter-picking and tidying were happening on the walk up to and around Brunswick Square and, once that was tidier, through parts of the Cemetery where Richard G, Jason and Frances were introduced to the wonders of Renée and Renata by Melanie. The 80s were odd.