Ten Goodgymers meet at the Care Home for the monthly quiz which everyone enjoys .This month Janet and Daryl set the Quiz,Janet set the music round which was very good ,Daryl set the the General Knowledge rounds with the main round being on the month of November. The scores where very close,the scores where out of 54,in third place was the Loose Women with 32,Second was Rich Tea with 33,and first was The A Team with 37 well done to you all.I look forward to seeing you all on the next task.

What a great turn out for tonight's session! Runners Graeme, Mohammed, Daryl, Caprice, Milly, Emma, Sophie and newbie Harry met for the Group Run to the session. They were joined by more GoodGymers at the task, Eleanor, Luke and newbie Julya It was lovely to meet Harry and Julya and they weren't afraid to get stuck in! They were met by Dot at The Well Coffee Lounge, she had a list of jobs to get through and the group got to it! Tonight's session was for all lighting to be taken down and cleaned, so before they could get cracking Dot switched off all the main lights, just to be safe. We had Team Clean which consisted of Milly Emma and Sophie who removed all the side lights and scrubbed them clean. Eleanor, Graeme and Daryl then placed the side lights back all clean and shiny. Luke got to work clearing out and cleaning the fridge. Daryl, Harry, Graeme and Mohammed were in charge of safely removing the large globe lightshades for the Team Clean to scrub and dry. Eleanor was in charge of sorting the house plants, stripping away the dried leaves and she was eventually joined but Mohammed who helped sweep and tidy. Daryl and Julya removed all the old fairy lights with Caprice lending and hand. Caprice got some good action shots of the group. They were there for an hour but so much was achieved, even if it was performed in very low lighting! Dot was happy with our efforts and it looks as through they would love our help again in the future. Watch this space!

Six Goodgymmers, Emma, Sophie, James, Daryl, Keith and Lea, turned up at the Dorset Children’s Foundation hub to help Patsy with some chores that would take a lot longer for her on her own! Recycled ceiling panels, dustier than dusty, had to be swept with a brush, a task taken on lefthanded by Lea, then taken to the painting team, consisting of Sophie, Emma and James. What about Keith and Daryl though?! Well, a kitchen that was covered in dust, because of work done in the building, was waiting to be cleaned from ceiling to floor. When Lea returned from the DCF charity shop with some jigsaws that had to be counted (yikes, 1000 pieces?!, and some smaller ones) Lea set to counting to 1000, later on joined by Keith and Daryl who took the smaller jigsaws. When the floor was covered with the ceiling panels, having turned from a dusty grey into beautiful black, the kitchen sparkling clean, and the jigsaws counted, we called it a day! With Patsy, as ever, very grateful again for all our hard work. And Chloe very happy indeed with a few more jigsaws counted! Hopefully there will be a next episode soon.

It's that time again! Our favourite task of the month, GoodGym's Quiz at Abbeyfield Retirement Home!

Tonight was a good turn out. We had James, Chloe, Eleanor and Luke on the ladies team "Loose Women" and Janet, Daryl,Ross and Paul joining team "The Seagulls."

Caprice this week was quiz master giving a tricky quiz of four rounds. The four rounds included; Geography, History&Politics, The Arts and good old General Knowledge. The Arts Round again proved to be the most challenging with some really tricky questions, it really got them thinking! This week's winners smashed it with a respectable 28/40 "The Seagulls" Well done to them, what a cracking score!! "The Loose Women" scored a well earned 21/40.

It was tough tonight, the quiz had some tricky questions We will return next month this time with a music and a picture round! We hope to see you there!

Three and a half Goodgymmers, Roger, Daryl, Keith, and Lea with an injured shoulder, hence only one useful arm, went to Bearwood School. Guess what: the area a few Goodgymmers had cleared a few months ago was again full of stuff… two classrooms had flooded over the holidays, cleared out and all the rubbish thrown out. Including two rabbit hutches; no rabbits though! The big skip was waiting to be filled and did we fill it!! Keith and Daryl had a great time attacking huge slabs of wood, using a jemmy and kicking boards loose. Together they were also dismantling a gate when David, the caretaker, said: “oh, I wanted to keep that!” Too late! All in bits and in the skip with it. luckily he was joking… I hope. Roger, as usual, was a great asset, strong as he is. Even the one-armed Goodgymmer, Lea, managed to toss some stuff in the skip. Her other important task was supervising the men, talking to a lonely Santa in the skip, as well as taking all the photographs to show the good work we were doing. David was certainly very, very pleased again with our efficient and hardworking Goodgym team! Thanks everyone for your hard work.