Two GoodGymers Harry and Sophie, attended today’s session, helping Westbourne rotary’s Santa’s grotto. (Congratulations Harry for completing your tenth good deed!) We got dressed up in festive attire to greet the children of Boscombe who were all very excited to see Santa! This was a very fun session, meeting approximately 17 families, which was classed as a ‘Slow’ day! The rotary were very thankful for our support today!

Five , Sophie, Harry, Mary, Keith and Lea, turned up at the Salvation Army in Poole. Well, we had to find the entrance first…Wow, so many toys!!! And so many bags to be filled with those toys. With perfect preparation and organisation by the Salvation Army people the whole thing ran like clockwork. With 176 children on their list, a lot needed to be sorted and put in bags per family. What a delightful task, esp when imagining the smiles of the kids getting the toys.

It was nice to have ten Goodgymers meet at the care home this month for the quiz ,plus James and Chloe brought Goodgyms new recruit along there baby daughter which was nice to see plus the residents loved to see her.It was nice to be able to have Three teams. I must thank Keith for doing a round which was pub names cricket where if the name of the pub was an animal you had to guess how many legs the animal or animals had,this was fun.In total we had 4 rounds,Keiths round a picture round a spelling round plus a round on sweets.Everyone enjoyed themselves which is what its all about.The scores where very close,The Loose Women had 29, No Idea had 31,but the winners where The Outsiders with 34 so it was all very close.Thank you all for coming along and making it a good evening.

Oops… the World and his Wife descended very early on the beach today, so that us Goodgymmers combined with a few Bournemouth Ploggers decided to stay well clear of that crazy area. And yet there was still plenty enough to litterpick: a sink (?), a wrench (yay, for being useful to Harry) and two bicycle frames were among the unusual stuff. For the rest: yes, butts (!!!), cans, bottles, tissues, sweet wrappers…. The chine, the viewpoint, the car park and some surrounding roads were scoured by the nine of us. Plenty picked, lots sweated, so a cool drink and icecream in Keith and Lea’s garden was very welcome. Thank you everyone for turning up on this crazy “walk over the heads beach” day. I will try and be more careful when planning our next litterpick!!! Council has been informed of the flytipping pile, 🤞 they have time to remove it!