Trip out to notcutts today...

No bingo while Christiane is on her holiday, so we arranged a trip out to the newly refurbished notcutts garden centre - it was lovely! So much to see, super cafe and staff really helpful and friendly. Jean, Marie, Pam, Peggy, lucille, Philip, pru, and Mary f were joined by Steve and Gemma and katerina who looked after them. We arrived back at MEH just in time to hear Derek play his final song on the piano- he had been keeping the residents left behind, entertained!

 

 

Happy birthday Mary

Grand raffle!

Photo-shoot

Karen gathered as many staff working today, together in the garden for an impromptu group photo ...

Farewell Leanne and good luck!

Leanne has been with us at MEH for past five months on placement as part of her social worker training and sadly this week it was time to say goodbye. The staff and residents will miss her but she has promised to visit and stay in touch. We wish her well in the future....

Happy Birthday Peggy and Marise.....

Peggy and Marise celebrated their birthday today......

Friday frenzy

Of activity! Thomas the PAT dog visits in the morning and got Mary up out of bed! He and Pam then visit everyone in the lounge and dining room before joining the ladies at 'knit and natter' in the library where they all enjoyed a well earned drink... Patty had a hospital appt today and although it was badly timed (just in the middle of a fish n chip lunch ) she enjoyed the drive to pembury, admiring the flora and fauna (!) on the way. We collected our volunteer Christiane for bingo and the usual crowd were waiting for her in the games room...jeans son came to visit and had tea on the patio - Heidi presented jean with Edward the teddy bear who is set to become her new best friend. Eileen has put another coat of chalk paint on the old side table and a few more pebbles have been painted. It's now time for the weekly quiz and jean is off for a walk on the common.... Nearly time for me to go ...

Such a talented bunch!

Keeping busy!

 

May day

Didn't go exactly to plan!  It rained....and rained...so no dancing round the maypole out on the lawn.  Instead, we had a busy day with the hairdresser, a fun afternoon quiz with Nadia and lots of Visitors...

We could try tomorrow...

Wednesday - last day of April

So a third of the year gone already! First day of summer apparently tomorrow so we are going to celebrate May Day!

Made a start today - finding a pole, making some garlands which jean modelled for me ....and digging out some ribbons from my car !

Volunteers from TWGS came today and there was a real buzz about the place. Leanne introduced the iPad mini to some intrigued residents, patty created another masterpiece and Margaret had a visitor...

 

 

 

Great British Care Awards 2014.....

Karen, Heidi, Gemma, Becky, Amanda  and Annie attended The Great British Care Awards.
Although no awards were achieved Amanda, Gemma and Annie are all stars in our eyes and we are very proud of them.
A fantastic night was had by all.
Well Done!

 

Redident's are visited by PG Tips.....

Resident's and staff were entertained by The singing band PG Tips there performance was enjoyed and appreciated by everyone and we hope they will perform for us again soon.
Thank You

 

Goodbye Lillo.......

Staff and residents say goodbye and good luck to a valued member of our team whom sadly is leaving us to explore pastures new.
Lillo will be dearly missed by residents and staff.
Good luck Lillo!

Afternoon tea

Making the most of the lovely weather - Joan sat out on the patio this afternoon with her artwork, later joined by our TWGS volunteers. they had tea with Peggy, patty and Joan's daughter... Jon McDevitt came to play guitar and sing in the lounge today - he enjoys coming to MEH as he says he always gets a warm welcome! Jane was in for computer fun - showing residents how interesting computers can be and ways of using them. Then nadia finished off the afternoon with a general knowledge quiz. Charity the hairdresser changed her day this week and will be in tomorrow.

 

After the Easter break...

Things are slowly getting back to normal- keep fit today and it was a full house! This afternoon heather kept the residents entertained with 'music for health ' session, a very lively event

Later in the afternoon it was warm enough for a stroll in the garden - martina did the full circuit but lucille and Joan opted for a shorter route and then they all met up for a chat!

Now the holidays are over our volunteers from school are back - Marie was happy to beat them at scrabble ...

It's st George's day tomorrow - we found some union jacks ( no England flags around) and decorated the home...very patriotic!

The wisteria has grown back after the building work a couple of years meant it had to be chopped down and I noticed today it has started to flower...
You will also notice the scaffolding - work starts on the windows soon so there is no parking at MEH for the time being..

 

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...

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