standing room only at the back...

the deserving winners...

in all, karen handed out 30 oscars to residents and staff who took part in the 'aged care channel' production of 'duty of care' - here are a few of the winners:
iris, helen, marian, phyll, helen p, hilda (lucille was on holiday at the time)
then we have madge, marjorie, and peggy...

the film premiere...

the film in the lounge had several showings today, the last at 7.15 this evening! the table was laid up for a buffet for relatives and friends of mount ephraim, and we would like to thank everyone for attending and making it a special evening.

tuesday 22nd feb

sonas and keep fit sessions with sue this morning; really fun classes and we could hear the residents singing from along the corridor!

sausage plait for lunch, then Lesley Orsen and husband Ray arrived to set up in the lounge for the afternoon classical music concert. full house again, grateful thanks to them.

sheila was busy in the kitchen preparing for Oscars night tomorrow - the Courier promised to send a reporter to capture the event!!

spring is on its way...

a lovely spring walk

Lucille and Dorothy enjoy a lovely spring stroll around the grounds this afternoon - it was really quite warm out but we still couldnt persuade anyone else to join us!

a little party in the library

while Derek entertained at the piano, Peggy sipped a g&t with daughter caroline in the library.

the finished result

these are the finished corsage's - very impressive!

flower power!

at lunch time we collected another batch of beautiful flowers from sainsbury's. Sheila offered to help with the arranging, as did patty and hilda. lucille came along to watch and got roped in to do a vase. they were rewarded with chocolate!



meanwhile, the rest of the residents were being entertained in the lounge by Sue who was holding a reminisence session.

feathers...

later we were joined by lucille who modelled one of the new feather boa's which arrived today. marie is looking pleased with her corsage and below is the box of boa's in lots of different colours.

a bit of glamour

we started the week with an art and craft session with julie, making corsage's to wear at this week's Oscar night. a lovely array of ribbon, flowers,feathers, and sparkly bits inspired the residents to create something original!
pictured is patty, and phyll. we were also joined by ursula, iris, marie, jean and happily we were assisted by volunteer Joan.

smile!

You don't stop laughing because  you grow old, you grow old because you stopped laughing..!!!


came across this quote (courtesy of Dyan - Art from the Heart) today and had to put it on here!  we are currently arranging 'Laughter Classes' at MEH- first one due to take place next month...

end of another week...

this was the other sketch done by Christopher White which is now featuring on our very own Mount Ephraim greeting cards! its one of the dogs ursula had painted a few years ago and he just sketched it in oil pastels.

friday is fish 'n' chips lunch, bingo in the afternoon with Christianne and opening the 'outreach' library books.

Peggy's family visited her in the library this afternoon, and over a gin and tonic they helped sort out the library - we now have 4 shelves of romantic fiction all in one place! plus of course all the poetry, classic novels, thrillers etc all together and easy to find! had hoped John would help but he is very busy working on his family history and research which he does on his own computer so he was excused!!

helen c had visitors as did dorothy b and win... the staff room was being repainted in a subtle shade of yellow and the 'new' hair salon was finished and ready for business.

next wednesday is MEH Oscars night - we have had a good response to invitations but if anyone has not yet replied please do so - we need to order enough champagne!

a little bit of venice

thursday 17th feb - a busy day at meh
.
Bill came to collect Gordon for  his first- stamp collecting
club meeting in groombridge...

hairdressing with Charity - her 'clients' pleased to see her for a chat and  fun while waiting their turn...

card making with ursula and patti - we were joined by Christopher, Ursula's son...
who did this lovely drawing using oil pastels, which we have scanned
& will use to make  cards to sell at meh!

bought new wool for marie to knit  more squares for blankets we are making for spring fayre...

lunch, then
entertainment by Jon McDevitt with
his guitar.

walk in the grounds with Dorothy F -
lovely afternoon.
lucille was out and about too.

tuesday 15th feb

after keep fit (great turnout of 17 residents today!) went off to sainsburys to pick up flowers.

after lunch, marie offered to help put them into vases. she brought along her new 'take that' cd - we put in on (loud!) and got snipping.

later we were joined by Hollie after she finished her shift, and Patti who was prised away from her armchair to help!

caption competition

here is nick being confronted on the stairs by one of the resident cats. anyone come up with a suitable caption? answers on a postcard...

monday afternoon tea party!

we had arranged a trip to polhill today as they hold monthly tea dances in the restaurant area. here we have phyll, john, lucille and hilda accompanied by sheila and diana. it was a lovely day and our table was by the window, in the afternoon sun.

none of us got up to dance - but there were plenty of 'regulars' who did and we enjoyed watching them whilst sipping our tea!