Six Goodgymmers, Keith, Sophie, Eleanor, Sue, Janet and Lea, turned up on this brilliantly sunny morning to help Ruth at St Augustin’s Church. Roots, roots and more roots: digging, forking, lopping, pulling and… sawing to get the monsters out. Small and big victories when the d… things finally gave way! All the womenfolk outside while Keith was doing the technical precision job of filling and plastering a fist size hole in the wall as well as zillions of other holes. All in all: another great Goodgym effort and fun had by all. Although some of us might be feeling their backs tomorrow!!!

Six Goodgymmers, Caprice, Sarah, Lea and Keith, as well as newbies Georgina and friend, spent a (very) wet and dry morning working on a brick path for TOSH Orchard Garden. Laying bricks 🧱 in a pretty pattern, edging the path in a nice line and chipping off the old mortar of the recycled bricks…. We were all having a “whacking” time: hammering, raking, laying, setting and, of course, whacking. And Sarah, sorry that I didn’t realise the American raincheck is different to my Dutch raincheck, no lie-in for you today! Brilliant task, brilliant result. Thanks Goodgymmers.

Daryl and Caprice meet at Kings park Cricket Pavilion and went for a short run round the park.On returning we where joined by Lea and Keith it was nice to see them on a Monday evening.we where also joined by Katie and a new recruit for Bournemouth Nelly {her dog}. We where soon on our way round the park picking up litter which included the usual sweet wrappers wet wipes.Lea found the first unusual item which was a clothes dryer. Not to be out done Daryl found a Shoe Horn and Caprice found a Kinder surprise toy.With the bags almost full we made our way back to the Cricket Pavilion where we had a group photo and said our good byes.I look forward too seeing you on the next task.

3 Goodgymmers, Keith, Janet and Lea, turned up at St Augustin’s Church for a “demolition derby”… yep we do like our demolition tasks! An old decking had to be taken up, the area underneath cleared and raked. All in time apparently for the church council meeting, where decisions will be made as to what to replace it with. Anyway, jemmies jostling, hammers in hand, rakes at the ready: a nice result after 90 minutes. And: It was Keith’s 50th Good Deed And: Us Goodgymmers obviously made a good impression; the church lady could think of quite a few more tasks for us to do. I would say: bring ‘em on!!!

Two Goodgymmers, Keith and Lea, cycled 4 miles to the AECC university college in Boscombe. There Roger, a non Goodgymmer, joined us. We met Anne Hayden from Planet Doctors there and quickly got down to the task: garden beds that had been placed there on an earlier occasion now had to be sanded to take the rough edges off. Then they were treated with ecological water based wood preserver. All in all we gave 14 beds this treatment. Luckily we were in the shade most of the time in the garden of this beautiful building dating back to 1888. And…. It was Lea’s 50th good deed with Goodgym.