Abbeyfield Wessex Society

A national charity providing accommodation to older people. Encouraging all residents to remain as independent as possible and to live life to the full
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81 GoodGymers have supported Abbeyfield Wessex Society with 113 tasks.


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Mohammed Elmshirghi
Eleanor King
Keith Baker
Daryl Venner

Dorset or Enid Blyton

Monday 13th July

Written by Daryl Venner

Five Goodgymers meet at the Abbeyfield Care home for the July quiz ,With Lea being the Quiz Master.We had a picture round and 4 general rounds ,with one being on famous people in the local area with one question on Enid Blyton as she based one of the Famous Five Books round the Purbecks and Brownsea Island.The scores where very close in second place was The Magnificent Seven with 61 but in first place was Eight Sum with 64 well done to both teams as the score was very close.A big round of applause must go to Lea for the quiz it was very good. We look forward to going back next month.

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Eleanor King
Keith Baker
Daryl Venner

Three Wise Goodgymers

Monday 8th June

Written by Daryl Venner

Three Goodgymers meet Abbeyfield care home for the monthly quiz.Keith was quiz master as his wife Lea had written the quiz even though she could not be with us thank you so much.We had five rounds in total a picture round and four others all in all it was a very good quiz with the end results being very close Haven't got a clue scored 40 but the winners are Centurions with 44 which was very close once again thank you Lea and Keith for the quiz.We look forward to returning next month.

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Paul T
Janet Beauchamp
Daryl Venner

Three Goodgymers

Monday 11th May

Written by Janet Beauchamp

Three Goodgymers were met by the lovely Vicky for our monthly quiz. It looked like it would be a very quiet quiz but ended up with two teams of four and one more resident turned up for the final question. First off, the teams were challenged to name the authors in the picture round. After that, their knowledge of all things May was tested: birthstones, star signs, famous Mays and events in May. The teams were very evenly matched after two further rounds of general knowledge with Daryl, Janet, Irvine and David coming out on top.

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Adam Clark
Mohammed Elmshirghi
Sophie Cuff
Milly Corden-lloyd
Keith Baker
Janet Beauchamp
Daryl Venner

Prickle of??

Monday 13th April

Written by Daryl Venner

Eight members meet at the Care Home for the monthly quiz which they enjoy.This month Lea was the quiz master with the rest of us splitting up to make three teams.The first round was what is the name of groups of animals with one question being what is a group of Hedgehogs ans being Prickle. Then we had four general knowledge rounds of various topics.Out of 42 two teams got 27.5 but the winners got 30.5 so it was very close Until next time

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Gemma Conway
Romy Pratt
Paul T
Daryl Venner
Caprice McWilliams

The Good Gymers

Monday 9th March

Written by Daryl Venner

Daryl meet Caprice ,(its great to see you again don't leave it so long we love to see you).Romy and her friend Gemma, who came along for the first time it's great to see you we look forward to seeing you again. We walked the short distance from the triangle to the care where we meet up with Paul who has just come back from 6 weeks in Asia.Before we started the quiz Vicky who is a 101 wrote us a poem which goes like this.On every second Monday,of each month throughout the year, Regardless of the weather,Our good Gymers do appear,Armed with many questions, And pen and paper too,Are so helpful with the questions,When we don't have a clue,So we thank you dear good Gymers, For the effort that you make,And the time you spend in giving us,A pleasant welcome break. By Vicky 101. That was so touching when she read it out. Back to the quiz we had a table top round where they had to guess the country from the outline then there was 30 general knowledge questions the scores where out of 39 the winners were the Dimwits with 23 second was the Smart Asses with 20.5 so it was very close.The evening was very enjoyable we look forward to next time .

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Ross Boon
Mohammed Elmshirghi
Keith Baker
Janet Beauchamp
Daryl Venner

raining dogs and dogs

Monday 9th February

Written by Daryl Venner

Six Goodgymmers, Daryl, Janet, Mohammed, Ross, Keith and Lea, equalled the old people in numbers. Where was everyone? Eh one in pyjamas, one on a cruise, etc etc. Not to worry, in spite of braving the horrendous weather, we quickly split up on teams. Lea, being extra nervous as it was her first time as quizmaster, lost half her notes and the answers to the pictures quiz…. But she pulled herself together and then all of us had a great time answering geography questions, questions related to “Sunday” and Pot Luck questions. With team “WET, WET,WET” winning with 34 points, team “TWO” came a close second with 27 points. On our way to next month’s quiz for sure.

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