peggy, jean and margaret's lovely artwork...

Thursday

Hairdressing day always busy - a queue for the best slot at the salon so as not to miss anything going on today! Doug wake came to entertain ; always popular - he had the room buzzing with everyone joining in the old favourites - even a bit of 'chair' dancing going on!
When I arrived this morning Peggy, and Mary were already hard at work in the games room with their art work - Margaret and lucille joined us and we got out the paints - with elvis providing backing!

The NCT group met in the library's - 5 scrummy babies played happily with their toys while the mums relaxed with a cup of tea. I took Jude along to see Hester and iris - and he obliged by laughing and smiling on cue - made their day! Marie wanted to nip into town for 'a few bits'

Everyone gone to supper now so time to clear away and go home...

Tuesday

Walking in the garden on a beautiful winter's day, with martina, Peggy, lucille and Eileen - we spotted the first spring flowers peeping out of the earth... Rita came along to chat with olive and iris and a few other residents in the lounge over coffee ...
After lunch, Lorraine our new manicurist set up in the salon, Eileen went shopping for a new lamp and new volunteer jenny arrived for a craft session; she showed us how to make knitted hearts. Meanwhile heather had a lounge full for 'music for health. ' Later, Mary claimed the volunteers from TWGS for herself for a lively game of scrabble!

Had to take some photos in the beautiful lighting shop for Eileen ....spoilt for choice!

We now have a karaoke player and had two wonderful singing sessions over the weekend
Marise sang an Irish song which she knew of by heart.
Peggy sang also along with Gloria, Margaret and Doreen.
Staff also joined in, great fun was had by all.
We plan to have many more Karaoke sessions..........................

         Tiny Babies

We were visited on Friday by Gary with his litter of adorable labrador puppies ..........

Indoor ten pin bowling....

Leanne set up the skittles in the lounge and quite a few people were game enough to have a go....after she had worn everyone out, we had another team quiz complete with limerick and sonnet recitals!

Friday

Another week flown by, still raining but at least it's not too cold and everyone is in good spirits... Gary brought in his puppies to show the residents today - only a few weeks old and soooo sweet... Think Karen may try to adopt one!! Pictures to follow...

The knit and natterers met in the library - we have enough squares for another blanket (any offers to see them all together gratefully received!) bingo, scrabble , colouring and quizzes etc going on during the day while the senior care staff blitzed the office ...

Show and Tell- jan 2014

Our new year show and tell got off to a great start today... I'm always amazed at the variety of interesting things our residents bring along...

This time we had a beautiful spoon from Eileen with a fascinating family story, a very old and beautiful plate, a still life sketch, a painted pebble and lovely knitting.... Mary surprised us by revealing she has a bridge named after her and Eileen persuaded her to show and share with us an amazing Christmas present she received from her daughter....the most beautiful quilt made from her late husbands shirts. It was a very emotional moment and brought a lump to our throats... But then in true Mary style she made us laugh by revealing that she didn't care for one of his shirts but he liked it so she never said anything!!

We had tea and chatted about childhood memories and then of course it was time to clear away so Marie and the others could watch 'pointless' !!

Chinese lanterns...

After an exhausting morning of keep fit (!) we decided on a more leisurely activity this afternoon - making paper lanterns - in preparation for our Chinese New Year celebrations. We used papers that our residents had painted, coloured in or collaged, and the results are stunning! So many took part - we had something of a production line going with Marie at the helm! Afterwards we did a 'team' quiz which was fun - even patty's visitor joined in!

Dart Champions at Mount Ephraim House

on Saturday Di and Sheila hosted a dart competition  in the games room - staff and residents joined in the fun and were rewarded with coffee and homemade cakes!

day in the life....

too busy to take many photo's today but Leanne did a 'day in the  life' series of pics and here are a few... we also went for a walk on the common, played bingo, did a quiz, played table tennis, had a fish n chip lunch and rounded off the afternoon watching 'pointless'...

More rain!!

So the thing is.....'If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain ..' And we certainly have!!

Happy New Year 2014

Resident's and staff celebrate and welcome 2014........

We held a New years party in our lounge today and lots of fun was had by all involved.

We welcome 2 new resident's Margaret and Martina into MEH and look forward to a fun filled 2014 with lots of activities which resident's will enjoy.

We will be gathering in the lounge tommorow to set new years resolutions and discuss the year ahead.

Happy New Year to everybody from MEH.

favourite moments of christmas day...

last day of the year and we are looking back at favourite moments of 2013....starting with Christmas day...(more to follow)

           Christmas 2013 was great at MEH

Resident's enjoyed a fantastic 3 course Christmas lunch prepared by Amanda which was Prawn Cocktail followed by trio of three meats beef, turkey and duck with all the trimmings and to finish a choice of Trifle and or Christmas pudding.
Amanda also prepared a beautiful Christmas cake.
Resident's pulled crackers and shared jokes with staff.
We thank Amanda for preparing such a wonderful meal. 

Staff dressed in Christmas costumes and entertained resident's.

The atmosphere was great during the morning and throughout the day.

It was a pleasure for all staff involved in festive celebrations.

Christmas Day at MEH was amazing, residents congregated with staff in the lounge and we opened Christmas Presents together, we then had a sing and dance and toasted Christmas Day with a glass or two of Bucks fizz.

Christmas Eve is here and resident's were visited by vocalist Polly who sang Christmas songs to them.

Christmas presents were also prepared and ready for Christmas Day.

Happy Christmas Everybody

Denis, Marise,Peggy, Mary P, Eileen G, Phylis , Mary F and Helen P joined Sheila and Di for a game of Christmas bingo which was a lot of fun.
Everybody got a prize and pulled crackers.