Three Goodgymmers, Daryl, Keith and Lea, got their tools out, ready to tackle more flatpacks for another refugee family. Two wardrobes, four flatpacks?!?! Oh, two flatpacks each, luckily numbered nicely to get the right packs together. Tools laid out, screws, dowels and all the other bits and bobs lined up, wardrobe parts ready and waiting. Lifting, shifting, hammering and of course screwing in ALL those screws… One screw left, one dowel left, oh oh… no no they are spares, no problem! Phew! And eh, Lea, you are not supposed to hit your thumb with the hammer, ouch! Good teamwork resulted in two nice wardrobes set up in no time for an Afghan refugee family to use as from next week. Well done, team!

It's that time again, quiz time!! This week the group split into two teams with Caprice being Quiz Master. Four rounds consisting of Geography, Science & Nature, The Arts and General Knowledge. Tonight's session started with Caprice asking each person to make a paper aeroplane. After a test flight the team were to choose and plane and nominate a team member to fly it. The furthest plane would score the team five points. After some tricky rounds The Loose Women nominated Daryl to fly their plane and the other team nominated Sophie to fly their plane. Both planes were impressive but The Loose Women's plane won as it made it halfway across the room. They took the lead with 35/45 with the other team scoring 29/45. A very close score indeed! Well done to everyone involved, it was lots of fun this evening. What will Caprice make them do next month? Someone mentioned who could make the best hat? We will join the Abbeyfield residents next month Monday 12th May.

Six Goodgymmers, Millie, Sophie, Roger, Daryl, Keith and Lea, turned up at Langside School where Nick from Diverse Abilities had a diversity of tasks for us. Roger set to jet washing a classroom and did a really good job. Millie, Sophie, Daryl and Lea shovelled pebbles into wheelbarrows to spread out on a patch under the swing. Millie soon set to filling the holes and levelling the surface. Keith, after having looked for “lost souls” and not found any, took the shears and cut back some bushes to provide better access to the play area there. Lea then swept the outside of a shed before setting to the (her pet hate) task of masking taping windows on the shed. But it meant that Millie and Sophie could get on with painting around the windows, before moving on to painting the rest of the shed. With Lea, Daryl, Keith and Roger helping we got three sides of the shed done! Oh good, now Nick will have to invite us again to finish that off! And he certainly will, judging by the “thank you” and goodiebags we received. Goodgym’s “diversity in their abilities” certainly showed itself today and hopefully will do so again on a few more occasions. Thank you everyone for your hard work. Mind you, it was not all hard work: the bouncing mat and the musical instruments definitely provided some fun.

It was nice to meet Michelle and Andrea don't leave it so long we've missed you.We meet at Swac where we where split into groups one group was in the garage taking the soil out of the grab bag and putting it into buckets and moving it to the stairs another group of two moved it up stairs where it was put into bags and another group moved it up stairs to another group who moved the bags to the roof where the soil was placed in planters Andrea and i where on the stairs where we had a good work out. We all worked like clock work and soon had the task and challenge in hand and had it completed in an Hour and a Half. Both Swac and Grounded Community where so pleased with the work all the Teams had achieved they couldn't thank us enough. They will definitely be asking us back for more.

It was nice to meet Mrs L today after a chat we set to work on the task which was cleaning and moving her books into boxes so she can have a carpet layed we soon had most of the books in boxes she is going to get some more boxes so the rest of them can be done .Mrs L was so creatfull we had a chat and I was on my way knowing it was one less thing on her mind..