Four Goodgymmers, Emma, Sophie, Keith snd Lea, joined the Westbourne Rotary for their longest sleigh route (Beaufort Road and surroundings)… After a bit of a slow start we did see more and more people. And yay, giving generously, making our buckets feel nice and heavy. Keith’s ears are ringing as much as his bell was and the Christmas “music” will still be in our heads tonight. But we did a great job. Thank you for turning up and helping Santa!! BTW that Santa on his cool motorbike… not sure if we could have kept up with such a speedster!

Four Goodgymmers, Jo, Roger, Keith and Lea, turned up at the Pine Cliff Gardens today. The ranger and volunteers there needed some "strong people" to remove four Phormiums... oh they changed their minds , actually just two Phormiums. Right, that was done in no time, loosening the soil with forks, digging with spades and pulling with bodyweight! Then up in the wheelbarrow and thrown onto the garden rubbish pile. What next? Ah well, a dead bit in a hedge, one spade pushed in and out it came. Ok, what next?! Attack the budleia! Unfortunately the ranger had to go, so, even though we were getting a fair bit done, she asked us to leave it.... just as we were getting into the task!?!?! Oh well, no more tasks there as they will not resume their sessions till the spring. What a pity with such a beautiful background!

Three Goodgymmers, Daryl, Keith and Lea, turned into Santa's helpers to collect money for Westbourne Rotary. And did we collect money indeed...... plenty of coins, plenty of notes and plenty of thank yous. And best of all: the bright sparkling eyes of all the kiddies seeing Santa! Looking forward to the rest of the sessions!

Four Goodgymer's meet in Westbourne to do a litter pick.It was nice to see Paul T again who has just come back from his travels ,but he did mention that in the new year He's off on his travels again this time six weeks touring Asia he certainly has the taste for traveling.We started round Tesco Express which was fairly clean before moving on down to the play park which was was also fairly clean we decided to move on to the car parks which was a different story. In the end we managed to fill Four bags of rubbish so all in all it was a very good effort.Please check out the web site as there is a lot of Tasks leading up to Christmas.

It was nice to see so many Goodgymer's brave the weather and come along to the Care Home for the Monthly Quiz {please don't leave it so long}.We split into two teams so that there was an equal amount of residents and Goodgymers on each team. The quiz started with a picture round which was name the dog i.e. Mutley which was fun then we had a round where a phrase was handed out and you had to count up how many F's there was,this was followed by Two General Knowledge rounds.Once the scores where added up both teams had 50 points each so we had to have a tie breaker question not one,but three questions later we had a winner.Which was Janet's Team The Smart Alecs and a close second was Lea's Team the Smart Thinkers.Well done to you both. Once again thank you for you all for coming along it means so much to all the residents. Next Month after the quiz we are going to the Alpine Bar in the Square for a Drink so please come along and Join us Its Monday December the 8th please make a note.