Easter Monday tea party

In the afternoon, after a walk on the common with Marie, Peggy and Pam tea was served on the patio in the sunshine. Ann and her daughter joined the party as did jean and her son, Joan and Peggy. Eileen stayed in the studio to finish her jigsaw and patty was at her drawing board
making us a new poster. The others were watching the film 'Emma' in the lounge
Eileen had heard that rain was forecast for the afternoon so we postponed our egg hunt until tomorrow - only to find it turned out warm and sunny after all!

 

Jean - our resident flower arranger

Jeans son came to visit today, they went for a nice walk on the common and came back with some lovely foliage. Jean cut bluebells from our garden and set about creating an arrangement for the table...

 

 

Farewell to Betty...

Betty has been at MEH for the past few weeks on respite and today it was sadly time to say goodbye... She has made friends and they came to see her off today, while sporting their Easter bonnets!
We do hope we will see Betty again - maybe on a day basis where she can join in with her favourite activities!

 

 

 

 

Good Friday.

Started with hot cross buns and coffee, finishing off the egg painting, fish n chip lunch and Easter quiz in the afternoon followed by tea party and 'philomena' DVD ... Margaret and jean helped to refresh the Easter floral arrangement - lots of family visits today too!
Happy Easter Everyone

 

 

What katerina did...

...on her day off

She arranged a creative afternoon for the residents...making Easter cards and painting real egg shells for decorations. Mary, Peggy, Betty, Marie, Joan and patty joined in the fun - Marise, jean and lucille came to observe... Lovely relaxing afternoon in the fresh air. A big thank you to katerina

The results are on show around the home

 

An Eden home in practice

Children, dogs, volunteers from school, creative crafts in the open air ... Residents having a lovely day...

www.eden-alternative.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

What a beautiful day

Gorgeous blue sky, garden looking amazing, plenty to do....Keep fit in the morning with sue, planting sunflowers on the patio ( sorry Julian we used all your compost) doing a group collage for the corridor, welcoming guests and their pets ... More homemade cake and afternoon tea and lots of pampering in the nail salon....all in all a lovely day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lovely colours....

Eileen finished this jigsaw puzzle (for the second time as she loves it so much) in the art studio where she can go to find some peace and tranquility... Inspired no doubt by the lovely tulips growing on the patio.

We need to find her some more 500 piece puzzles ....

Happy 90th Birthday Jean

10th April 1924 was also a Thursday - the day jean was born. Today she celebrates her 90th birthday and her family arrived to take her out for lunch in tun wells! Afterwards they joined her for tea on the patio in the sunshine! Happy birthday Jean from all at MEH

Happy thursday

Hairdressing day today, makes everyone feel better...Nadia arrived with another super quiz, and it was jane's week for computer fun- Eileen, Hester, Marie, dawn and iris were joined by Betty today who was introduced to some relaxation therapy via the Internet! She was later inspired to pick up a paintbrush and enjoyed dabbling in watercolour along with Pam, patty and Joan plus our volunteers from school...great results as you can see

Joan's family came to take her out for some fresh air - had to take a photo as she arrived downstairs looking like a film star!

 

 

Crafty Tuesday

More Easter stuff going on today; manicures down the hall, relaxing in the lounge or relatives visits - business as usual at MEH

We started on the Easter decorating for the House, jenny brought us homemade cake for tea and the garden looked beautiful ....tulips are out at last

The mount ephraim house 'sewing bee' started today

We now have some residents who like to sew, and volunteers jenny and Roy recently presented us with s brand new sewing machine.... Today jean finished sewing up the Easter chicks and new girl Betty came along to watch. She has promised to sew some things for our craft fair - must thread up the machine tomorrow!

 

NCT visit

Easter art and craft today

Such a beautiful warm and sunny day today and some people took the opportunity to sit outside on the patio - to read, relax, have a manicure or just sit and chat over tea.... The games room was buzzing with activity - patty was painting chicks, Marie made Easter cards, jean took to painting eggs and was joined by her son, alistair... Iris did some watercolour painting. Jenny our volunteer brought homemade cake and roy made the tea!
Many of the other residents were enjoying Heather's class - Music for Health - and a few lucky ladies had visits from their families....great start to spring!

Greensleeves accolades 2013

Celebrating achievements of the 17 homes within the group, the accolade event was held at The Kia Oval in march this year.

Mount Ephraim House was recognised and short listed in the following categories- activities, gardens, innovation, fundraising,colleague of the year, carer of the year, and Home of the year. We are pleased to report that our Nkkita won the innovation award and Dianna got a special presentation for her 40 years service! Gemma received a framed certificate for 'carer of the year' at MEH and Catherine and Dianna received their level 2 diplomas in Housekeeping. Karen was very proud of her team and was only just pipped at the post for the 'manager of the year' award - although to MEH staff and residents she is already!