It was time once again for GoodGym’s monthly quiz night at Abbeyfield Wessex—and what a fantastic evening it was! Janet and Keith joined our favourite ladies, The Loose Women. A big warm welcome also goes to Tony, a new resident at Abbeyfield, and to Lea and Daryl, who joined forces with Team The Winners. Caprice stepped up as quizmaster for the evening, and she didn’t go easy on the teams! The quiz featured four lively rounds. We kicked things off with a tasty challenge: Name That Chocolatey British Biscuit. Next came an egg-themed round that cracked a few smiles. Then Caprice really turned up the heat with a round of eight tricky puzzles that had everyone scratching their heads. The night wrapped up with a good old-fashioned general knowledge round. Both teams were brilliant, and it was a tight contest! The Loose Women scored a very respectable 27 points, but it was The Winners who lived up to their name, finishing with an impressive 31 points. It was another great evening filled with fun, laughter, and lovely company. The GoodGymers will be back on Monday, 2nd July, for more quiz-filled fun—this time with Daryl stepping in as quizmaster. We hope to see you there!

Three Goodgymmers, Roger, Keith and Lea, got their litterpickers out to see what they could find this time. Well, Lea being the designated “buttgrabber” lost count of the zillions of butts she had to pick up around all the benches. Keith and Roger scoured the path down to the beach from the top of the Tropical Gardens. Then on the beach itself… The recent rain and stormy weather had certainly washed up an abundance of nurdles, so at the end of our task the binbags weren’t overflowing but full of horrible tiny bits and pieces! And unfortunately there were no amazing finds, just ordinary boring rubbish, but at least it’s in the bin now and no longer on the beach! With binbags emptied in the big bin on the prom, and three litterpickers, including one wonky one, put to the side, we went off for a coffee! BTW the binbags are ready and waiting for next Saturday, hopefully there will be a few more of us?!?!

Janet, Keith and Lea joined David in the Jubilee Garden of St Aldhelm’s Church. The task at hand: ivy pulling… a notoriously back breaking task. And today was definitely no exception, judging by some of the moans and groans that were emitting from some of us Goodgymmers🤔😃. As to interesting finds in the garden: enough cans and bottles to have a garden party, unfortunately they were rather empty. 🥴The Ray Ban lookalike sunglasses were unfortunately rather useless as well… no arms🤪! But Goodgymmers certainly aren’t useless: David was very grateful for the hard work we put in tonight! And the little robin, can you spot him?, that came and inspected our work seemed happy with our work as well….

Millie, Sophie, Emma, Harry, Eleanor, Daryl, Roger, Keith and Lea all got together at Langside School where Nick had more tasks for us to do. Cham, new to Goodgym and to all of us, managed to find us and was raring to go. Sylvie arrived “a tad” 🤪 later…. To summarise today’s task: we were cutting, grabbing and tossing! Cutting A LOT, sweeping A LOT, grabbing A LOT, and the best part of it: tossing A LOT!!! The taller than tall hedge at the front of the school was attacked by the strimmer together with Harry and Daryl, with Cham sweeping to his heart’s content. Millie, Sophie and Emma got busy cutting back the rosemary bush and the garlic…making the air fill with lovely smells. At the back Keith started off cutting back major bushes on the edge of the playground. He was joined by the front squad and later on by Sylvie. Oh and not to forget about Roger: our ACE jetwasher, attacking the dirt on another classroom. As photos show: we got an awful lot done; very much appreciated by Nick who rewarded us with some sweet smelling bathbombs. What a Lush smell 🤗 And… Eleanor was proudly showing off her 50 good deeds tshirt! 😃 Thanks everyone for all your hard 💪 work!

Three Goodgymmers, Daryl, Keith and Lea, went to help Emma, a Goodgymmer in the past, who is now a social worker. She had asked us to clear a totally overgrown front garden and use the cut stuff to stop kids getting into the back garden of the house and scaring the person living in the house. Daryl was busy already cutting, when Keith and Lea arrived. Keith got his saw and heavy duty loppers out to get stuck in there. Emma dragged and cut and Lea was totally in her element dragging stuff and weaving all the cuttings into a hedge. To say the hedge resembles the Great Wall of China might be a tiny bit of an exaggeration, but there is no way those blinking kids can get through there now!!! All in all an amazingly good job done and a very happy Emma. She “warned” us: there will be more!! Well, we are not complaining. Thanks Goodgymmers for your hard work.