Trip to the fruit farm

We had a great time, were so well looked after by the staff at the farm and took home some gorgeous strawberries for everyone to enjoy!

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One of lovely carers, mihaela, used to work at the Downingbury Fruit Farm near Tunbridge wells and she suggested we take a group of residents for morning coffee, some shopping and fruit picking!

Eventful Monday

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Magisto made this little film clip of the photos I took today, mainly of the veg garden ( which is in preparation for the NAPA challenge 'fine dining experience' on 14th July....

A good variety session with sue today - she thinks the warm weather is having s very positive effect on everyone... Elizabeth and Joan started reading alan titchmarsh memoirs to the Monday group today; a trip we made on their behalf to the library and shops made a few residents very happy ... The guinea pigs enjoyed s run, jigsaws have been completed, and more art hit the walls!! Oh,

and Audrey created a couple of flower arrangements for her room.

Friday 26th June

Sun shining but a bit breezy so not so many residents choosing to sit outdoors today...Derek came to play some tunes, followed by a bit of Andre Rieu then 'pointless' .... While down the hall we had Christiane back for bingo and then instead of the quiz, she introduced the crossword book- Marie & co helped fill one in which Christiane will send off to try and win the £1000 prize!!   Bridget loves the fresh air and she could be found making art with mihaela, out on the patio, which was later added to the ever growing art gallery wall!

A little clip...June 25th

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New look dining room....

....and creativity in the games room

Art therapy

Anne enjoyed relaxing in the library doing some art, later joined by marianna ...

Open Day Friday 19th June

So far, so good! ........

Getting ready for Open Day

A visit to the garden centre and Jude popped in to see the guinea pigs!

First lettuce...

From our kitchen garden today...

Friday - over and out'

More highlights from today....

A visit from Gloria's son and his lovely dog Finn....roses out in the garden, pretty purple flowers ( residents asked me to identify) and a vintage tea party this afternoon with 'show and tell' where residents bring something dear to them to show the others and share their story. We had some really interesting things today, some funny anecdotes and kitkats!!

Second week in June already...

Making the most of the start of summer...with 

Peggy! Dawn, chick, Joan s, Eileen 

Colouring, creating, doing jigsaws or just having a cup of tea ...

Patty preferred to do her art indoors and the others were happy in the lounge with plenty to keep everyone amused!  

The veg, herb and flower garden and doing well and thankyou David for remembering to water the tomatoes at the weekend.  

Snapshot of today - June 5th 2015

The day started with knit and natter and ended on a sing song with Doug Wake at his keyboard- stirring some lovely memories... 

Jim, Peggy and David had a go at Jenga, the carpet men finished in The annexe and David remembered to water the tomatoes!  Franny and Nina came from school to play scrabble with Mary....

Don't forget!

Planting up....

Arthur helped Roy plant up some more dahlias on Tuesday ....all we need to remember now is to water them!

Guest for the morning....!

Jude came  to visit today and joined in with 'sonas' and keep fit. Then we formed an impromptu backing band for Daniel O'Donnell in the lounge with brigitt, pat and the two Anne's!  Luckily jude's mum came to collect him just in time for lunch!

Craft afternoon etc

Painting pots, music and hairdressing - a busy combination for a blustery Tuesday afternoon .. 

Annual MEH charity golf day

Farewell to MAY ...

A month of sunshine and showers, tears and laughter....celebration and commiseration

We celebrated Anne s, Peggy, Arthur and  phyl's birthdays respectively but sadly lost dear Robert who had not been at meh for very long...

We welcomed new staff and residents (Jill, gwen, Jim ) and Karen took a holiday and celebrated her birthday too.

We started the month with a bank holiday, VE Day and a visit to Tudeley church and ended with a bank holiday and a trip on the kingfisher.., in between we introduced film nights, Oomph and mail art, were inspired by Chelsea and enjoyed many sunny days in the beautiful gardens.  

Highlight of the month was our 'holiday ' at crowhurst park...

Thursday 21st may

Started off so beautiful - we opened the doors to the garden, put out all the patio cushions and placed the guinea pigs in their 'run' on the grass... But there was a bit of a chill in the air ( not enough to deter chick from enjoying the fresh air!) but no one else ventured out!

Peggy was happy colouring and Anne came along later, showing new carer sharon how it's done!

Charity came in to open the salon and was met by quite a queue - but it's time for a catch up and no-one minds waiting their turn....in the lounge we stared a fun coffee  morning tasting session- Karen bought sachets of different types and flavours of coffee and Marie, Eileen and Eileen, Anne, Doreen, pam, phyl and Arthur were up for the challenge!  Everyone had a favourite and it was fun to try something new- we even had a free raffle, won by Anne ...

Peggy and Mary did go out for a walk in the grounds after lunch and the school volunteers franny and Nina surprised Mary by joining her outside (she loves the visits from the girls) which made her day.