It's that time again! Our favourite task of the month, GoodGym's Quiz at Abbeyfield Retirement Home! Caprice made the short run in the rain and we're met by Ross, Chloe and James at Abbeyfield Wessex. They were all ready and had already picked their teams. The group split into two teams, James joining his favourite ladies, "The Loose Women" , Eleanor, Chloe and Ross in team "The Clever Clogs" With this month's quizmaster being Caprice. Eleanor braved the rain and turned up a bit late and very soggy. Four rounds this week. Round one good old General Knowledge, round two multiple choice Food round, Round Three Animal Themed true or false and back by popular demand Round 4 The Music Round!! This week's winners smashed it with a whopping 45/50"The Clever Clogs'' We will return for Quiz night next month!! We hope to see you there!

Seven Goodgymmers, Caprice, Millie, Sophie, Eleanor, Janet, Keith and Lea joined Ruth inside St Augustin’s church tonight. The planned work outside wasn’t going to happen with buckets (of rain) coming down! No washing walls this time but scraping pillars… the peeling paint as well as salt crystals needed to be removed, so that the pillars will dry out better. Then they can be painted at a later stage. Lots of scraping meant lots of dust…. James to the rescue. Eh what? James could unfortunately not make it, so when Eleanor heard Lea say: “Well done James”, she got a bit confused. Turned out Lea was praising Henry’s cousin James, also in the hoovering business! Eh, right 🤔🤣! And then Caprice and James joined forces to attack more dust… Anyway, with dust collected as well as spiders webs, lots of leaves and a pine cone (?), but no mice running around this time, the church and Ruth are happily awaiting our return as there is lots more to do for the hardworking Goodgymmers group!! Thanks everyone for your hard work.

This was mission #2 in helping Sendisass4bcp distribute their flyers to schools and GPs in the local area. Daryl, Eleanor, Chloe and Caprice didn't let the rain put them off. They met at King's Park and then hit the streets. This was an epic running mission where the GoodGymers ran a total of 10K whilst weaving through the streets of Pokesdown and Southbourne. They even managed to squeeze in a mini Graffiti tour finishing on the mighty Boscombe Owl 🦉 Once all the locations had been delivered to the group ran back to King's Park.

Tonight's session was to help our friends at Hope Housing. Daryl and Caprice ran to the session where they were joined by Milly, Sophie, Emma and Eleanor. With summer just around the corner it was time for their charity shop to swap from winter stock to summer collection. The group got to work sorting bags of donations, placing summer clothing into their labeled box. The group agreed it was a very satisfying task, seeing the boxes fill in no time at all. Women's tops and dresses seemed to be the most popular donation. Once all the bags were distributed between the large plastic boxes the GoodGymers said their goodbyes. Hope Housing have asked for our help with some gardening and some point so watch this space for more details!

Elanor and Daryl meet at the Brewhouse for the short run to the Care Home for tonights Quiz which was kindly written by Caprice who could not make tonight(but she did leave me with the same question twice which was fun).Once at the Care Home we meet Chole and James Once inside there was Balloons and banners up as it was Jess's Birthday she is 102 which is amazing and she only looks 50 The quiz went down very well they all enjoyed it as it tested there General Knowledge. The top team this time was The Wanted with 21 out of 30 the Lose Women came second with 17 I look forward to seeing you all next week at Hope Housing.