the masterpiece!!

busy afternoon

christianne called the bingo today, eric and helen came along a bit later to join in with susan, pat, doreen, phyll, gordon, helen p,marie, sylvia and iris.

meanwhile, ursula, patti and lucille joined me in the foyer to sort out the pens and pencils and then with supplies organized, we attempted some therapeutic colouring in!

madge had a visit from the priest, and peggy's family visited for the now regular legendary g&t in the library!

st patrick's day

residents and staff celebrated st patrick's day today, with an irish themed lunch, decorations and hats!!

spring has arrived today

doors to the patio open for the first time this year - lovely day and the daffodil bulbs are so pretty.

a beautiful day

madge was the star of the keep fit class today and marie and iris were indispensable in the flower department.


Tosca was on in the lounge (gordon's favourite opera apparently) and patty came to create another masterpiece in 4b pencil. will scan it in and maybe use it in the next newsletter.

the builders have arrived together with office and portaloo in the grounds so no parking possible at MEH for the next few weeks, but there is plenty of free parking around.

monday march 14th - sitll life

left patty happily drawing in the library yesterday after a busy day, giving piano lessons to karen, listening to poetry with elizabeth and joan (in monday group) and Variety hour in the lounge with sue joining in with the quiz!

it was a lovely day for walking in the grounds, receiving visitors and enjoying ham egg and chips for lunch.

John had a local history tutorial at tunbridge wells library - a volunteer who is an expert on tracing local history on the computer spent an hour helping john with his research.

This is patty's still life picture from last week - looking forward to seeing her new picture!

volunteers needed!!

 Christianne, a volunteer who was recommended to MEH by another of our long term volunteers Lesley Orsen.  has now been coming to 'do the bingo' for a year now and is very popular with the residents.

If any relatives out there can spare a couple of hours (a week, a month or just now and again) please get in touch and share your skills, interests or passions with the lovely residents of meh! Alternatively, you may know of someone is perhaps retired and could spare some time to help; music, art, local history, crafts - or just a chat over tea and biscuits!!

full house!

christianne our lovely volunteer arrived friday to call the numbers - the residents look forward to her visit as she always make sure everyone wins a prize!! after bingo she hosts a quiz and then a few residents stay to chat and help her with the clearing up...
today's group included helen p, helen d, grace, susan, madge, marie, phyll, doreen, gordon and robert (who had some help from a little visitor!)

sheila and dorothy went for a walk in the grounds, and pat helped with the flowers, and ursula got the pastels out; tried to get patti to join us but she wanted a cat nap instead...
Peggy J had some visitors and enjoyed a g&t in the library!!

friday flowers

Pat helped with the flowers on friday after we collected them from sainsburys.

ballet in the lounge...

not the residents, but a video on loan from the outreach library.

computer lessons!

Val came today to carry on the good work, teaching the residents how to access google on the home computer - they had a look at google street view today, then looked up various of their favourite artists to see their work etc.

Laughter is the best Medicine!!

we introduced 'laughter yoga' classes today to the unsuspecting residents at MEH. pictured here is Marie, teacher Cathy and a bemused Robert! He was not quite sure what to make of it all.

Laughter Yoga 'massage's the internal organs - its movement, excercise and laughter all in one; the endorphins produced when we laugh make us all feel stronger, happier and more alert.

Just laugh for no reason (or smile) - it will instantly make you feel better!

Helen C and Helen D certainly enjoyed the class, as did doreen, grace,ursula, jean, pat, win, susan, phyll, patti and helen p. It was a lovely way to start the week.

lucille helps with the flowers...

here are some of the finished vases of flowers that Lucille helped me with friday afternoon - it took us about 2 hours !! here is lucille taking away the debris before helping to distribute the vases around the home; she was brilliant.

bingo afternoon

all seats taken this afternoon for bingo with christianne - helen p had a lucky day and won no less than 8 times (she is banned next week!!) but in the end everyone had won at least one prize...sylvia, patti, marie, phyll, susan, grace, helen d, & doreen.


afterwards, christianne hosted a general knowledge quiz while Peggy J was receiving guests in the library, and 'breakfast at tiffany's' was showing in the lounge.

gardeners out in force

first thing this morning - three men in full riot gear tackling the lawn! the residents watching from the lounge seemed quite bemused...

tea at BHS

marie, patti and helen p needed to do some shopping in town, and olivia and hollie agreed to accompany them.

we visited boots and m&S then met up for tea in BHS & sat in the window to watch the world go by - and who should we see but our chef Paul with two of his children just collected from school. they are well prepared for 'red nose day' on march 18th...

modern art!

we decided to try our hand at some 'abstract' art today (thursday) and despite a few reservations, marie, phyll and ursula joined in ... patti however preferred to work on a more conventional landscape (after she had finished off the easter cards) but it prompted some lively discussion about modern art and tracey emin in particular!