Boat trip no 2

The second trip took place tues afternoon- this time we took along Ann and Anne, Mary f, lucille, Marie, pat, and Hester - di and Sheila provided the cakes to have with tea aboard and katerina was there to help the residents enjoy the trip ....

We're all going on a boat trip...

Monday morning bright and early for the first of three trips on the kingfisher at wateringbury - Eileen , Peggy, Mary p, Joan s, Philip, Jean n and pam were the first 'crew' .... We chugged along the Medway to teeston lock, had tea and cakes aboard and chugged back in time for lunch.

Summer garden party in full swing

Lovely day.... The total raised for residents activity fund was almost  £2700 - thank you to everyone involved...

Art studio gets a makeover

After Roy painted the patio furniture last week we had such a positive response that he and jenny decided to use the rest of the paint on updating the art studio and give it a beach hut feel ... The residents enjoyed watching the work in progress and Marie, Joan, Mary, pat, anne and Jean has some projects of their own to work on...

The bingo crowd on location!

Christiane kindly arranged for the regular bingo crowd to visit her home for tea and homemade apple cake. !

Rainy Thursday...

Sadly not a day we could enjoy outside- we could only watch as the rain fell on the newly painted patio furniture, but at least the sunflowers got a good watering! 

Plenty to do indoors- hair salon busy all day, nadia came to do the weekly quiz and more art and craft going on in the games room- Marise made a card, Joan enjoyed her colouring and jean painted a pebble, creating a paperweight for her daughter.

Anne was inspired by fellow resident Margaret's paintings of flowers and produced a lovely canvas ...

Our lovely volunteers from TWGS arrived in time to help with the painting, and in

the library the NCT group were meeting up with their babies; Anne and Jean popped in to say hello and Jean even had a cuddle with baby Oliver !

Painting party

Shells , buckets, lampshades and even the garden furniture got a makeover today ! 

countdown to ANNUAL GARDEN PARTY begins...

this year the event will be opened by SIMON COLBRAN, owner and manager of the SMART & SIMPLE HOTEL in Tunbridge Wells which won Channel 4 TV's 'Four in a Bed' award earlier this year!

as well as the legendary Plant, Cake, Tombola and Coconut-Shy, we have bric a brac, crafts, jewellery,  grand raffle, cream teas, BBQ, kids zone,Photo-booth, classic cars on display, sweets, splat the rat, 'guess the weight of the weight' and meet the scarecrow, Pimms and soft drinks, Book stall, and live entertainment from 'PG tips' and of course Doug on the keyboard...

Diana Wilson - long service presentation!

We  celebrated with our own 'domestic goddess', Diana, being at MEH for forty years !   John Wylie, Vice Chairman and  Trustee of Greensleeves Homes Trust,  came to present Diana with an engraved clock, vouchers & flowers. He spoke warmly of her devotion and contribution to the Home and thanked her for her 40 years of service.  She is also in the unique position of being the longest serving member of staff ever!  She has seen many changes over the years but has always put the residents of MEH at the heart of everything she does.

Visitors ....

Don dropped in to see Pat and enjoyed morning coffee on the patio - later joined by tim.....

The scarecrow,  (not finished, obviously !) made his first appearance....

Debbie brought in her gorgeous little dog to show the residents....

Anna came to play scrabble with Mary after school....and our two new guineapigs came out into the garden

happy birthday Pat !

It was Pat's birthday today; her family came to help her celebrate, Amanda made a lovely cake and the residents sang happy birthday at lunch time...

 

 

Pleasant day Tuesday

Patty says that's how she would describe today - sitting in the sunshine( she got out of keep fit today !  ) drawing some posters , joining in with 'music for health' this afternoon...

For the other residents, the manicurist visited, a few lucky residents went out for lunch with friends and we had a lot of visitors ...Jean helped pick some strawberries for supper...

The cut flower garden...

....is blooming and our flower arranging expert Jean will be put there tomorrow gathering stems to create something amazing !

Colourful Friday

Love all the beautiful colours of today - from the garden, art room, residents artwork and our activity rooms. Inspiring ....

While some residents and their families enjoyed sitting in the garden under the shade, others were watching tennis from Wimbledon, or playing bingo ... choc ices at tea time and fish n chips for lunch

Last of the first's

NCT group met today to celebrate George's first birthday - the last of the nine baby boys born to these mum's a year ago !   Joining us out on the patio were Joan , pat, Hester , patty, lucille, Mary f .... Lovely warm afternoon

Lovely art work....

By Anne our newest resident !

Open day at meh

National care home open day today and we did it in style...

Balloons and bunting decorated the home, residents handiwork was prominently displayed around, vintage tea  and buffet prepared including a scrummy fruit cake made by our chef Amanda ...Derek on piano belting out 'songs from around the world' residents playing bingo & scrabble , sitting in the sun or joining in the. 'World quiz' we  had prepared....

Lots of visitors... and to top it all, a lovely visit from the Mayor and Mayoress of tunbridge wells who met many of our residents, enjoyed a tour of the Home and took tea with manager Karen. A big thank you is due to volunteers Jenny & Roy and Christiane who worked hard to make sure all went to plan.