Avery House Care Home

May 2018

What’s inside:

Upcoming events Page 3

Rambling Rose Page 6

News Page 13

Community News Page

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WELCOME…

Welcome to May, White is the colour of May-

from the bridal dress of a whitsun wedding

to the hawthorn blossom that covers the

hedges like snow.

With May Day on the 1st and two bank

holidays this month, it really is the merry

month of May!

Relatives and friends: If you would like to receive your own copy of our update letter, please leave your email address with reception

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Activities with Oomph!

Interesting

facts about

this month…

1. More UK prime ministers have been born in May than any other month, though Theresa May was born in October.

2. No US President has ever died in May. It is the only month that can make such a claim.

3. The first Saturday in May each year is World Naked Gardening Day

4. In any calendar year, no month begins or ends on the same day as May.

5. In the Netherlands, the second Saturday in May is traditionally National Windmill Day.

6. In 1966, a World Tramps Congress in Argentina named May 2 the International Day of Idleness to follow May 1 being Labour Day.

7. One Anglo-Saxon name for May was Tri-Milchi, as dairy cows could be milked three times a day during the month of May.

8. It is considered unlucky to marry in May. This superstition dates back to the Romans who thought May to be the month ghosts roamed.

9. “In this Moneth wash often thy face with fair running water, but eat not of such meats as be hot in quality.” (advice from Richard Saunders, 1665)

10. According to an analysis by Google, ‘may’ is the 55th most commonly used word in English.

Have you joined in with

Oomph! Session yet? If not then

we strongly recommend you

do! It’s so much fun and great

for your health! Join us 2 times a

week for chair based exercises

to upbeat music using scarves

and pom-poms, with a different

theme at every class, come and

see what all the fuss is about…

And Now NEW Oomph! Sport!

Well Done to our Oompher’s of the

Month! For trying out our New Oomph! Sport Sessions!

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1st May Day

1st Holy Communion 10am

2nd R.L.E.D.E Meeting 11am

2nd Entertainment from Piano Player Adrian 11am

3rd Brian’s Yoga Class 10:30am

3rd Jo-Jingles 2:30pm

6th Church Service 2:30pm

7th Swimming Class 12pm

8th VE Day

10th Pop-Up Museum Event with Guest Speaker 2pm-5pm

11th Friends Friday 2:30pm

12th Eurovision Song Contest

12th Big Band Spectacular show at Key Theatre 7:30pm

13th Ladies Night-Face Packs, Manicures, Massages & Cocktails

14th Arts & Crafts with Jane 2pm-4pm

15th Start of Ramadan

15th Dementia Café 10am-12pm

15th Relatives Meeting 6pm

16th Musical Club 2:30pm

17th Brian’s Yoga Class 10:30am

17th Jo-Jingles Session 2:30pm

18th Forget me Not Art Auction Event 6pm-9pm

19th FA Cup Final

19th Royal Wedding-Garden Party

20th Whit Sunday

21st Dementia Awareness Week

21st PAT Dog 2pm

22nd Chelsea Flower Show

23rd Residential Lunch Club 11:30am

23rd Time Travellers 2:30pm

24th Zumba Gold 2:30pm

28th Spring Bank Holiday

28th Arts & Crafts with Jane 2pm-4pm

29th R&A Meeting 11am

31st Brains Yoga Class 10:30am

31st Jo-Jingles 2:30pm

Dates for your Diaries…

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At brighterkind we believe in living life to the full. That’s why we

do our upmost to ensure that our residents have access to a varied

programme of activities to deliver the Magic Moments that will

help them love every day.

Our Magic Moments programme also aims to encourage well-being by

concentrating in equal measure on the mind, through mental agility;

the body, through fitness and mobility; and the soul, through

entertainment and personal interests, continued learning and

emotional engagement.

In the pink

Our Activities Coordinator & Assistants are the people who help make

the Magic happen here at Avery House they are there to provide a

comprehensive activity programme that will be loved by our residents

and their families. Our Activities team Laura; Bea & Debs can always

be spotted because of their pink uniforms and the fact that they are

always having fun! You can see all the exciting activities that we are

having daily by looking at our pink activity boards throughout the

home.

Recreation

& Activity

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Friday 18th May 6pm - 9pm Join us at Avery House for our ‘Forget Me Not Art Auction’ to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. Local Artists and Students are working with our Residents who have dementia, to create beautiful pieces to sell. The evening will include musical entertainment, guest speakers and refreshments. Dress code: Black Tie All Welcome

Wise Words…

Quotes of the Month from Resident Volunteer

Bryan Barnes…

Forget Me Not Art Auction

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president

represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the

people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of

the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White

House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny

matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are far more united and have far more in common with

each other than things that divide us.” Jo Cox MP cruelly murdered by Thomas Mair

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Rambling Roses Corner…

Dear Fellow Residents,

Just a little Hug

A hug can say “I’ll miss you”

Or even “I’ll be there”,

It can say “you are someone special”

Or best of all “I care”.

It can sooth a hurt

Or calm a fear

Or cheer us when we are blue

It almost seems a miracle

All the things a hug can do!

Can you recollect these old sayings?

A fool and his money…

Don’t cry over…

Saved by…

Rome wasn’t…

A friend in need…

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Just to get us thinking…

“If” is one of the smallest words and yet we use it more than we

realize.

“If” can alter the things we do or don’t do.

There is a small rhyme…

If If’s and An’s, were pots and pans

There would be no work for tinkers

How many “If’s” can you think of?

Here are just two…

“If” it would only stop raining

“If” only I could run

Until Next Time…Rambling Rose xxx

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International Poetry Day! Our Poem…

This house – this close and comfort house, companion and grow house,

sweep of community – unknown to known house –

society, safety Make it my own house

We are here.

We bring trinkets –

memory-gilded souvenirs, with wisdom to the brink –

the mist of family and familiar hugging every surface,

spurring us on to what is ahead. Sometimes making us stop, heavy-limbed,

with late love on our lips.

There is light here, there are colours, like glass colouring streaks

that spill into rooms and on to the items in rooms –

the small gifts, the things brought,

the things made and things displayed here in calm

There are pictures in the lobbies, corridors,

quiet lounges, the busy dining hall. He loses himself in them all –

is transported to places exotic and near, thinking of lives, of stories –

some clear (like his own). Others – the miraculous might-have-beens

He loves to joke,

to dream.

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She sits at a window,

watches birds – birds she loves to feed.

She wonders what they think, how they feel,

what it’s like to be airborne and flighty, not grounded in safety, surrounded

like she is here.

This house – This close and comfort house, companion and grow house,

sweep of community – unknown to known house –

society, safety Make it my own house

We are here –

A fanciful mixture of wisdom, laughter, song and reflection. On some days we sit back – mention

the ‘good old days’, think on ‘good old ways’, but on others we sit – determined - straight with resolve and grace, know there is pain,

but face vista with thought, in aspiration look forward to our future

in this house.

Clare Currie Peterborough Poet Laureate 2017/18

Written for the residents of Avery House. Based on conversations about the house;

the thoughts, experiences, ideas and aspirations of the residents.

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Out & About!

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May Nature Notes… May mornings start with the dawn chorus. Even before the sun is up,

the blackbird, robin, wren and chaffinch fill the air with their singing.

As warblers and thrushes join in, the day begins chorus of birdsong.

May is not just full of sounds but also glorious sights. Many woods in

May are carpeted with bluebells as far as the eye can see. A haze of

blue covers the ground.

All creatures are busy in May, and that includes the humble slug.

Snails and slugs are at their more voracious in May as they graze on

young shoots and leaves. The gardener hates them, but they are

enjoyed by birds and hedgehogs.

Deb’s Top Tips

Lemon

Have you ever noticed your cleaning sponges starting to smell sour shortly after

purchasing them? Get rid of that odour by rubbing a freshly cut lemon into the sponge.

Rinse it well in lukewarm water and let it dry. The smell should disappear!

Clean stains off your hands by rubbing a slice of lemon over the dirty area. Rinse well

afterward.

Toothpaste

Use toothpaste to clean up stains in your sink, tub and toilet. All you have to do is rub

the toothpaste around with a rag or toothbrush while using a little bit of elbow grease

and the stain should come right off. You can also do this to clean any silver in the

house, including jewelry!

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Kitchen Corner

Food events this

Month: Art Auction Event

18th

Royal Wedding Garden Party 19th

Knit-Wits Knitting

Club… Do you like to knit, crochet or

sew? Or do you just like to

natter? Then join us every

Wednesday at 2:30pm in the

Balmoral Small Lounge for our

weekly knit and natter group

The “Knit-Wits”…

At the moment were knitting

Bunting Flags to decorate our

lounge.

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May Words…

The May Queen By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;

To-morrow’ll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year;

Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day;

For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

I sleep so sound all night, mother, that I shall never wake,

If you do not call me loud when the day begins to break;

But I must gather knots of flowers and buds, and garlands gay;

For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

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News…

Bonanzas!

Join us in celebrating our April

Monthly Bonanza which is

History Month

Join us on May 10th at 2pm for

our Pop-Up Museum and Historic

Talk with Guest Speaker Carol

Housekeeping & Laundry: Just a reminder, lost clothes will be on display in the Small Lounge on the Buckingham Suite; this will take place on the last weekend of each month. If you find any missing items please ask a member of staff from the laundry team to mark them with your loved ones room number, thank you

Because we are a dog friendly

home, we now have a water

bowl outside and a treats jar in

the foyer for our furry friends to enjoy!

NEW Oomph! Sport

Sessions… Laura & Debs have been on an

excellent training course to enable us

to expand on our already popular

Oomph! Session. Oomph! Sport

sessions include Volley Ball, Slipper

Soccer and Clock Cricket!

Intrigued? Come along to a weekly

session to find out more and join in the fun!

We need your help!

We’re developing a reminiscence box

and require various items to complete it,

we are looking for:

Pipe

Flat cap

Horse brasses

Fire bellow

If you could assist in any way we

would be extremely grateful! Thank you

Thought of the Month!

“Welcome mid-Mays eldest

child, the coming musk-rose, full

of dewy wine.”

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Dementia Café Are you a person living with dementia, or a carer, a family

member or friend of somebody facing dementia?

Come along and join us monthly at our Dementia Café!

3rd Tuesday of every month!

With a guest speaker or entertainment!

Our Dementia Café is a sociable get-together to give you the chance to

meet new people dealing with the same experiences

as you, making sure nobody faces dementia

alone.

Dementia Friends – Helping to create dementia friendly communities

through Dementia Friends Information Sessions

Dementia Friends is an Alzheimer’s Society led initiative which aims to increase dementia awareness and change the way the nation thinks, talks and acts about dementia.

Would you like to attend a free Dementia Friends Information Session here at Avery House and learn more about dementia and the small ways you can help. We highly recommend family, friends and carers come along to a session which is delivered by Heather Hooper, a Dementia Champion, in an informative and relaxed environment and lasts about one hour.

If you would like to attend a Session, please contact Laura

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A few from April!

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Community & other News…

Dementia Café… Did you know we now hold a

Dementia café every 3rd

Tuesday of the month? Find us

in the Tea Room on

Sandringham Suite between

10am-12noon for support,

advice and friendly chit-chat

over tea and cakes!

We need assistance with

distributing leaflets to schools,

surgeries, libraries and

churches if you could help

take a few, please see Laura,

your assistance would be

greatly appreciated… Tuesday 15th May 10am-12pm

Did you know?... Our hairdresser Christine takes

all our old towels and duvets to

her local vets and animal shelter,

how lovely? If you have any old

pillows, towels or duvets please

bring them in, let a dog or cat have a snuggle in them…

We attend the Holy Communion Service held on the First Tuesday of each month at 10am at the CSK Church, please let the activity team know if you would like to attend …

The fair maid who, the first of May,

Goes to the fields at break of day,

And washes in dew from the

hawthorn tree, Will ever after handsome be.

Wishing Wells.

We would love to have our

residents and relative’s

involvement on choosing wishing

wells. We now have a wishing well

form located in the leaflets stand in

reception. If you have an idea of a

wish you might like or a wish on

your resident’s behalf please

complete the form and give back

to the R&A Team we would love to read your thoughts and ideas

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A Royal Celebration, Our Queens

Birthday…

To celebrate her majesty’s Birthday, we all enjoyed a British favorite of tea

and scones with lots of jam and clotted cream! Special thanks to

Doreen for helping with the washing up after!

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St. Georges Day…

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In loving

memory…

Rest in Peace…

Gone but never

forgotten…xxx

Welcome:

Welcome to all our new

residents joining us this

month, whether you’re here

for a long or short stay we

hope you really enjoy

yourselves...

Respite:

Thank you to all our respite

residents, we hope you

enjoyed your stay; we

loved having you and hope

to see you again soon…

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Saturday Night Takeaway… Did you know? One Saturday each

month we enjoy a takeaway, the

residents pick what particular

takeaway they would like that month,

and decide what they would like

from the menu, then enjoy their

chosen food together whilst

socializing. Residents have enjoyed

Chinese, McDonalds, fish & chips &

KFC so far and they were thoroughly

enjoyed by all.

If you would like to participate

please speak to a member of the

R&A team, please note food orders must be paid for in cash on the day…

MOST WANTED

ITEMS… Sensory items

Bingo Prizes

Raffle & Tombola Prizes

Unwanted Alcohol for

our Pub

Tiny baby or dolls

clothes

Raffle Prizes

R.L.E.D.E Meetings…

Residents loving every day

experiences is our monthly

meeting with home manager

this takes place on the first

Wednesday of each month at

11am in the Balmoral lounge,

all residents are welcome,

this is a chance to meet with

the Manager and heads of

departments to discuss your

choices, views and opinions

with each department of the

home and to hear what’s new

and upcoming so please do

join us!

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Hair dressing in

the Salon… Have you seen our Salon?

It’s Beautiful and soo

relaxing…

Christine our lovely

hairdresser is in the Salon

Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri

Let her know if you would

like to make an

appointment…

Regular activities…

Don’t forget we still have

these regular much loved

weekly activities, please

see the weekly planner for

times and places…

Knit-Wits Knitting Club

Choir Practice

Prize Bingo

Gardening Club

Gentleman and Ladies Pub Club

Board and Card Games club

Cooking Club

Trolley Shop

R&A Meetings

Trip Tuesdays

Zumba Gold

Yoga Class

Oomph! Sessions

Art & Crafts Club

Sunday Strollers

Saturday Story Tellers

Topic of Interest Club

Church Service

Time Travellers

And much more….

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Birthdays

this month!

Residents

We would like to

wish

Happy Birthday to:

3rd Vira

5th Dorcas

5th Eileen

15th Rosemary

16th Ray

24th Gordon

We hope you all

have a lovely day!

Employee of

the month! Well done to Anne Setchfield

for receiving this month’s

Employee of the Month

Award!

Anne has been helping out on

Nights recently, she’s shown

dedication to her job role and

always does it from the heart! Well done and thank you!

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Life Story: It’s so, so important that we

receive as much information

about your loved one as

possible in order for us to

keep their care person

centered. In line with this the

Activity Team require a “life

story” from each resident, be

it a story or bullet points this

information is not only lovely

to read but it gives us a bit

more of an insight into their

life. Please feel free to email,

or write me a brief life

history for me to put in there

care plans

Thank you for your kind support

Connect Community… The connect Suites have their own lunch

club and takeout evening.

If you would like your loved one to take

part in either or both of these please let

a member of the R&A Team know,

please note food must be paid for in

cash on the day. Meeting for food is a

great way of socialising and building friendships…

Luncheon Club… Do you enjoy great food? Great

company? And getting out and

about? Then why not join our

Luncheon Club, with a different

restaurant of your choice every

month. Please see a member of the

R&A Team if you would like to

attend… Please note food must be

paid for in cash on the day; please

see the Activity Programme for your Suites next Lunch club date and time

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Jokes on you… If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?… Pilgrims! Can February March? … No, but April May! What month always asks questions and permission?… May!

When do monkeys fall from the sky? During Ape-ril showers! Why is everyone so tired on April 1? Because they've just finished a long, 31 day March! What season is it when you are on a trampoline? Spring-time! What flowers grow on faces? Tulips (Two-lips)! Why are trees very forgiving? Because in the Fall they "Let It Go" and in the Spring they "turn over a new leaf". Why is the letter A like a flower? A bee (B) comes after it!

When do people start using their trampoline? Spring-Time What do you get when you pour hot water down a rabbit hole? A hot cross bunny What did the tree say to spring? What a re-leaf. What do you call a girl with a frog on her head? Lily!

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Would you like to ‘review us’ on carehome.co.uk?

We’d love for you to share a good experience you’ve had at

Avery House with others. Reviews can be made by a resident,

relative or friend. Simply go online or ask a member of the

team for a card.

Avery House Care Home

2 Chaffinch Lane

Hampton Vale

Peterborough

PE78NF

01733-246840 averyhouse@brighterkind.com

Feedback… Please feel free to leave us some feedback about this Newsletter or if

you have any ideas for resident’s activities… we would very much

appreciate your thoughts. You can find compliments slip in

reception, or feel free to email Laura at

Averyhouse.activities@brighterkind.com

Many thanks for your continued support xxx

Residents’ Focus… Avery House-brighterkind strives on providing meaningful activities to the residents. During our Resident of the Day Experiences we spend one to one quality time finding out what your dreams and ambitions are, what you want to do over the forthcoming months and we implement these into the calendar of events.