A nice morning at the farm greeted the cheery goodgym folk. Of to the shed we went to pick up our tools and a dash to get a wheelbarrow. Today we cleared the willow leaves from the front and sides of the cafe area. Sweeping aside any Friday morning cobwebs are gut instinct led us to also clear the gutter of leaves. Thank you microbiome . After depositing the debris in the compost a final picture by Mr stick and off we went for a local coffee to slowly digest our way into the weekend

Bit of a scorcher so shade sourced and much gravel revealed under pesky weeds (or nice grass and comfrey growing where we don’t want it).

Loss of chat around the mound then off for lunch along with the whole of Bristol - first stop closed their kitchen as they were so busy so popped next door for lovely veggie lunch and much-needed re-hydration. Lovely stuff.

A lovely morning greeted 4 GGers at the glorious farm. Today we tackled the edges by some steps that seem to provide an excellent ecosystem for weed growth. With hoes, brushes and a spring in our step we cleared the borders, brushed up the detritis and composted what we could. Proper job✨️

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.

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!