It was great to meet up with four Goodgymers after the festive season..It was nice to meet up with Loren for the first time she had just moved to Bournemouth from London.We meet at the Auger Collective which is a new charitable Art Gallery previously we have rollered the walls .We where set the task of rolling the walls once more as there where some patches.So the four of us set to and soon had the walls done and the paint cleaned off the floor so it would be all nice for the grand opening on Thursday To which we have been invited to attend at 6pm . Please keep an eye on the web site as there will be a lot of tasks posted.

It was great to see so many turn out for the end of year quiz at the Care Home it means so much to them they do enjoy a quiz.We split into two teams The Christmas Crackers and The Christmas Trees,we started with a picture round you had to name the movies that featured the following Farther Christmases which was a bit of fun.Followed by 20 general Knowledge questions based on Christmas which you either loved or hated ,but the scores on the doors was very close The Crackers got 25 ,but the winners by one point was the Trees with 26 well done to both Teams. We shall be back at the Care Home in the New Year the date is January 12th.In the mean time please check out the web site as there is so much happening in the lead up to Christmas.Hope to see you all soon.

Today was the first day the Boscombe, Southbourne and Westbourne Rotary Grotto was opened to the public, inside the Soverign Centre in Boscombe town. Eleanor was the only GoodGym volunteer today, but was joined by many a voluntary Elf to help make the little one's (and big one's) visit to see Father Christmas special. All proceeds raised are going to the chosen charities - Bournemouth Foodbank, Dorset Cancer Care Foundation, and the Green Island Holiday Trust.

Nine Goodgymers attended the monthly care home quiz. Well done to Eleanor for putting the gym into Goodgym by running all the way there and back! It was lovely to receive such a warm welcome from the residents now that it’s turning darker and chillier outside. This month Janet took on the role of quiz master, starting with a picture round of old movie posters from the 1930s and 1940s. This caused much discussion among the three teams, with renditions of Judy Garland hits being heard across the room! Unfortunately, our lovely 100 year old resident couldn’t quite remember where Judy Garland’s train was going (St.Louis) so the film title evaded her. There were science and nature, geography and general knowledge rounds, with a few trick questions thrown in. Did you know that Albert Einstein’s wife was an Einstein even before she got married? Turns out, only one of our teams did (or they made a lucky guess)! And the Waikato River may sound Japanese but is, in fact, the longest river in New Zealand. Congratulations to the Middlemarchers with a phenomenal total of 41 out of 46. There was only a point in it for the two runners-up teams. Well done everyone!

3 Goodgymers met to drop leaflets for the free health checks being offered by the Health Sciences University. Kudos to Eleanor who ran to the task. We quickly made a plan of our route and got started. Lots of basement flats this time so we certainly got our stairs in!!