Daryl Venner

GoodGym Bournemouth

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Roger Little
Eleanor King
Keith Baker
Daryl Venner

No more blues

Thursday 23rd April

Written by Bournemouth runner

Five Goodgymmers, Eleanor, Roger, Daryl, Keith and Lea, had another go at attacking the Spanish Bluebells, by fair means or foul... digging them out with bulbs and all or deadheading them. We again filled a number of wheelbarrows and the garden is looking very blueless now, much to David's delight. He will get their regular volunteers to plant new stuff. Thanks for your hard work everyone.

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Keith Baker
Daryl Venner

It's Great to be Back

Monday 20th April

Written by Daryl Venner

Three Goodgymer's meet at Bishop Aldhelms School .We where meet by Neil who is the site manager ,who showed us round to the Reflection Garden which we had to help clear as it has become over grown i told Neil one of the first Tasks at the school was to help install the garden so we have come a full circle. We set to work clearing the weeds and the plants that where no good then clearing out the raised beds, in the time we had we got a lot done.We shall be back next week to finish it.

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Roger Little
Keith Baker

Egging on the attack

Thursday 16th April

Written by Bournemouth runner

three Goodgymmers, Roger, Lea and Keith, turned up at St Aldhelm's church to attack the Spanish invasion.... of bluebells! Digging deep to get to the bulbs was no easy feat. Yikes, our arms today! David, the gardener was very happy with our work and hopes to see us back for more attacking of the Spanish bluebells, beautiful though they are, they are incredibly invasive!

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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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Adam Clark
Keith Baker
Daryl Venner

Watching the working

Saturday 11th April

Written by Bournemouth runner

Four Goodgymmers, Adam ( on his first good deed!), Daryl, Keith and Lea, went to the Tree House in Hurn, the head office for Diverse Abilities. Nice jobs… indeed! Keith was happily lopping away the seed pods high in the palm trees, glad he had brought his extending loppers from home! Daryl and Adam were thinning out a too densely packed bed with mainly lovely smelling mint. Lea attacked the buddleia with a vengeance. Buddleia grows fiercely so needs to be cut back fiercely. Clearing up all the cuttings and weeds were jobs that Lea, Daryl and Adam got stuck in. But… heaven of heavens the best job of all: digging out the invasive irises in the pond. Yeeesss, MUD HEAVEN for Lea! Adam was definitely earning his Goodgym first deed: digging, pulling, heaving mud, together with Lea, all under the watchful eyes of Daryl and Keith. When Lea put a bucket of mud down a bit too hard, Daryl wasn’t so happy anymore… oops, sorry Daryl. Lea, covered in mud, was as happy as a mud loving hippo. Nick from Diverse Abilities was amazed at how much we got done and very grateful for all our hard work. Thanks very much everyone.

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Keith Baker
Daryl Venner

Even a House Brick

Monday 30th March

Written by Daryl Venner

Three Goodgymers meet a the foot of Durley Chine to do a litter pick as this area after a nice weekend is always bad.We found the usual bottles and plastic classes but to my amazement i found a house brick on the beach .We soon had three bags full so we put them in the bin and said our good byes and headed home.

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