We had a great turn out this Saturday! 14 brave souls ventured to the slopes on a morning that could only be described as 'like standing in a freezer'. Not wanting to stay still for too long, we spread out and got to our usual beatification and bramble demolition.

With such a large group, we managed to get a fair amount done. The strongest of the group started by adding more stones to the mud in the path, while others got to work scything the pathways and keeping on top of the brambles. A special shout out to Russ for carving out a huge new burrow in the hedges!

Litter pickers found the usual assortment of randomness; traffic cones, chocolate biscuits, and smashed up guitars.

And the stairs look much more welcoming after the lopper crew cleared back the overgrowth.

Also we had a secret 50th good deed! Tom has just reached this incredible milestone, and deserves a high five next time you catch him!

To finish up, we were treated with some vegan mince pies from Julia, who is very happy with the work we put in over the last year. Awesome way to finish up an awesome task! Stellar work all round everyone!

This visit to the slopes was slightly different that our usual jaunts. We had two new members join Good Gym, which was perfect timing as our first task was to shift 20 bags of gravel! The pathway we had opened up last time was getting a lot more use, which meant a lot more mud too. After a few rounds of wheelbarrowing & carrying the sacks, we had covered the deeper parts of the path and made the route through the trees a lot safer!

After this, Marion and James swept steps for litter while the rest of us got back to clearing the pathway from brambles. Newcomers Peter and Ben made fantastic bramble removal men, we hope they will come back and share that bramble bashing vigor again!

Thanks for coming along everyone, top job as always!

(We'll be coming back in December, will list on website soon)

9 Goodgymers met at the Berry Maze for a wonderfully sunny weeding, cutting, and berry-eating session! The Berry Maze is slowly preparing for the descent into Autumn, and on top of the usual tasks, blackberries and other spiky fruit bushes were cut back.