Given that it turned to Winter literally overnight, it was fantastic to have so many people come along and help out the Frome Fairies with a bit of maintenance work down at Eastville park yesterday. New runner Izzy is obviously made of sterner stuff choosing this freezing morning to embark on her very first GG Bristol outing - coming very well prepared with plenty of warm layers :)

Since the task was to take place on the actual parkrun route next to the lake, it seemed only right to offer any parkrun'ers the chance to join directly from the event so by the time my group arrived from the mud dock there was already plenty of activity - though it was noticable that the sunny side of the lake seemed to have rather more occupants than the rather chilly shady side. Special mention though to Richard who still chose the more remote Pomphrey option (with a Halloween theme!) before running over to Eastville for the task.

Our host Andrew dished out hoes and spades and everyone got to work digging out weeds around the edge of the lakeside trail. This was just about physical enough to keep people warm and with folks by now spaced out all along the perimeter we managed to cover a lot of ground.

A small cut to Sarah's leg sustained on a bramble meant the GG Bristol first aid kit got its first ever outing and - with a slight breeze - then found its way promptly into the lake. Luckily Emma was on hand and demonstrated amazing reflexes in retrieving it before it floated off to the Island.

Finally, after a group photo we all headed back to Mud Dock for a well earned warm cup of coffee,

Nice to see Liam feeeling a bit better and joining us today and great to have Deb and Paul back with us - we've really missed you guys! And 'au revoir' to Caroline as she returns to GG Sheffield to join in their 2nd birthday celebrations - hopefully see you back in Bristol very soon!