day trip to hastings 25th may

...started at the new Jerwood Gallery in Hastings old town with coffee on the terrace, then lunch at a seafront cafe.  

Mary and Doreen went for a look around the old town with Laura, while Hester and Lucille were interested in the various exhibitions back at the gallery...Ken, Susan, Jean, and Joan were happy to walk in the sunshine and then meet back at the gallery to watch a short film on the artist Rose Wylie

keeping busy at meh

tuesday afternoon, after keep fit and lunch, some of our more artistic residents gathered in the games room for an art and craft session with julie - we didnt know what to expect until she arrived - with pretty tiles, broken china and some tile adhesive.  Mosaic was a new art experience to everyone and after a bit of encouragement everyone managed to produce a masterpiece.  these need drying out, then grouting and cleaning and then will be ready for display.

today the hairdresser comes and there is always a waiting list for charity to perform her magic.  Jon McDevit came to play his yukalele and marie, joyce and mary went for a walk later.  Christine prefers to sit in the foyer where there was a nice breeze, and enjoy some fresh air.

walk in the sunshine...

lovely afternoon for a walk on the common, with mary, joyce and marie - we were later joined by Lucille

ice cream flavour competition...

we decided to enter the NACC 'design your own ice cream flavour' competition sponsored by Premier Foods and thought that a bit of 'market research' needed to be done first!   the entry criteria is 'if you could design your own ice cream what flavour would it be?'  - we have some amusing suggestions and the best ones will be submitted today.  we will let you know if our combination is chosen!!

judging by the photos above, marie, helen, pat and win were enjoying theirs; not too sure about joan and ken!!

celebrating birthdays in May

marise, phyl and win celebrating their birthdays at mount ephraim ...

getting ready for summer

lights, camera, action...

spring fayre

spring fayre was a great success.  marie and marian were in charge of the art and craft table - we had cakes courtesy of becki and daniel and sheil and di made some lovely items to sell ...thanks to everyone who supported and attended our event.

christiane is presented with her olympic medal...

at Bingo today as she does a fantastic job every week!

a trip down the nile...

...not us, but a talk from Shelagh Ball who recounted her adventures to a very appreciative audience!!

the residents have rhythm!

a musical afternoon with percussion instruments, song sheets and quiz...gave everyone a buzz and put a smile on their faces - even Lillo enjoyed joining in!

a lunch for all our volunteers....

...to thank them for all they do for the residents at mount ephraim house.  we had a lovely lunch at royal wells hotel today for everyone to get together.

sunny start to the week....

stop press...

lovely photo of the walkers (including Vivienne) plus Sheila (with her fund raising bucket!!) and Ken (last resident standing, or should that be sitting) on the rocks, tunbridge wells common on saturday 21st april.

money still coming in for sponsored walk, not too late to contribute!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLIVE

here is Olive's birthday cake, and Olive having happy birthday sung to her by the residents!

anyone for collage?

inspired by David Hockney patty and phyl started on a collage project today and were later joined by Mary S..

SPONSORED WALK 2012

A Sponsored walk organized by head office greensleeves for all the homes in the group took place on   21^st april 2012 at 10.30.  The Mount Ephraim contingent set off in bright sunshine around the Tunbridge Wells Common.

The residents were assisted by walkers from chartwell lodgeand between them have raised almost £200 so far.

Afterwards the volunteer/friends went back to chartwell lodge for coffee and mount Ephraim staff and residents had a welcome warm drink back at meh

MP pays a visit - MEH Question Time

Rt Hon Greg Clark MP faced some tough questions from residents today - everything from Afghanistan to the 'granny tax' - but i think he enjoyed the challenge!

congratulations to Hilary

...tea party in the lounge to celebrate Hilary's appointment to Deputy Manager, music courtesy of jon mcdevitt and cakes from sheila and di....

when the rain stopped...

start of a new week at meh

scrabble club this week with ann (ken looks aghast at his selection of letters!) susan, eric, marie and sheila played in the library while ken, patty and ann battled it out  in the games room...

joyce, marie and ken enjoyed a walk across the common to the pantiles in the morning

elizabeth and joan (our volunteers) spent a lovely morning with a group of residents reading poetry...