Gosberton House Care Home

Another busy month gone by. April has seemed a long month with

plenty of activities and entertainment packed in, and all our activities

were well attended. At last there is a sign that summer is on its way!

Bingo seems to be getting exceptionally popular with a full house

most weeks (pardon the pun). For our afternoon Movie Matinee this

month we watched a film with “Norman Wisdom” and had a choc-ice,

which went down well everybody.

We had a craft workshop with Carol

Parker. Carol brought in lots of clay and

showed us how to model clay heads and

also how to decorate different shapes

using lace and doilies to print with.

Mind you I wouldn’t want to bump into

any of the faces we created!

We spent a lovely afternoon baking little cakes and had an even nicer

time eating them at our coffee morning the next day.

Entertainment this month we had

“Carousel” with a new programme

“Musical Memories” this was very

entertaining they sang songs from West

End musicals and motion pictures King

and I, Wizard of OZ, Singing in the

Rain My Fair Lady and lots more and

costumes to match. We all had a sing a

long throughout the

performance. We

also had Jenny

Webb and as always

she had us tapping

our toes and

singing

along to

her

popular

songs.

We are now getting ready for the church annual flower and craft

festival, which takes us nicely into May. We are hoping to take as

many people as we can across to the church to see the wonderful

displays.

Dates of Interest in May

May 1st Local and Community History Month

May 21st Dementia Awareness Week

May 30th World MS Day

Entertainment Coming Up:

May 8th "Blightly Belles VE DAY

May 16th Jacqueline & Brian

May 23rd Dick Ryman

June 13th St Nicolas Players

June 20th Tim Rogers

June 30th “Summer Fete” Entertainment “Karl Richardson”

and “Carousel” with “Best of British” and our

Summer Raffle

Sadly, Mick passed away. May he rest in

peace…

Short Stories

To Absent Brothers

An Irishman walks into a bar in Dublin, orders three pints of Guinness

and sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.

When he finished all three, he comes back to the bar and orders three

more. The bartender says to him, 'You know, a pint goes flat after I

draw it; it would taste better if you bought one at a time.' The Irishman

replies, 'Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in America, the

other in Australia, and I'm here in Dublin. When we all left home, we

promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days we all drank

together. 'The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it

there. The Irishman becomes a regular in the bar and always drinks

the same way: he orders three pints and drinks the three pints by

taking drinks from each of them in turn. One day, he comes in and

orders two pints. All the other regulars in the bar notice and fall silent.

When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender

says, 'I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my

condolences on your great loss.' The Irishman looks confused for a

moment, then a lights dawns in his eye and he laughs. 'Oh, no, ' he

says, 'Everyone is fine. I've just quit drinking!

Golf Ball

Two Golfers were approaching the first tee.

The first guy goes into his golf bag to get a ball and says to his friend -

"Hey, why don't you try this ball." He draws a green golf ball out of

his bag. "Use this one - You can't lose it!"

His friend replies, "What do you mean you can't lose it?!!"

The first man replies, "I'm serious, you can't lose it.

If you hit it into the woods, it makes a beeping sound, if you hit it into

the water it produces bubbles, and if you hit it on the fairway, smoke

comes up in order for you to find it."

Obviously, his friend doesn't believe him, but he shows him all the

possibilities until he is convinced. The friend says, "Wow! That's

incredible! Where did you get that ball?"

The man replies, "I found it."

Lunch

There was an Irishman, a Mexican, and a blond guy, who were

construction workers working on top of a building. It was lunch time

and the Irishman opened his lunch pail, finding cabbage and beef. "If I

get one more beef and cabbage for lunch I'm gonna jump off of this

building," he says. Then the Mexican opens his lunch pail and finds a

burrito. "If I get one more burrito for lunch I'm gonna jump off this

building," he says. The blond man opens his lunch pail and finds a

bologna sandwich. "If I get one more bologna sandwich I'm gonna

jump off of this building." The next day the Irishman opened his lunch

pail and found cabbage and beef, so he jumped off the building to his

death. Next, the Mexican opened his lunch pail, and upon finding a

burrito he jumped off as well. Finally, the blond guy opened his lunch

pail and found a bologna sandwich. He too jumped off the building.

The next day at their funeral the Irishman's wife said, "If only I knew

that he didn't like cabbage and beef, I would surely have packed him

something else." The Mexican's wife said, "If only I knew he didn't

like burritos, I would have packed something else." Finally, the blonde

man's wife spoke. "I don't know what his problem was. He packed his

own lunch."

Hiking

A father came home from a long business trip to find his young son

riding a brand new bike.

"Where did you get the money for that?" he asked.

"It must have cost over £300!"

"I earned it hiking," replied the boy.

"Hiking??? Come on son; tell your Dad the truth. Nobody can make

that sort of money hiking. Where did you Really get the cash from?"

"It's like I say, Dad. Every night when you were gone, Mr. Goldberg

from the bank would come over to see Mum. He'd give me a £20 note

and tell me to take a hike"!

DIGI-SEARCH

Find the hidden numbers - They may be horizontal or vertical

SYLLACROSTIC

Fill in the answers to the clues by selecting the correct syllables from the list below. Each syllable can only be used once and the number of syllables to be used is shown in brackets. When the correct words are filled in, the first and last letters reading down will reveal a proverb.

A, BI, BU, CI, COM, GE, IG, LI, LOUS, ME, MI, NE, NE, NI, NORE, ORB, PASS, RE, SIS, TAL.

1. Disregard __ __ __ __ __ __ (2) 2. Third sign of the zodiac __ __ __ __ __ __ (3) 3. Bane __ __ __ __ __ __ __ (3) 4. Globe __ __ __ (1) 5. Performance __ __ __ __ __ __ __ (3) 6. Legal excuse __ __ __ _ (3) 7. Lacking in definition __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ (3) 8. Navigational instrument __ __ __ __ __ __ __ (2)

08436, 11911,

15345, 23367,

33472, 38627,

48397, 64358,

67987, 73839,

78586, 79873,

82484, 83733,

96477, 98035.

Can you work out the items of food or drink from the

following anagrams? Word lengths are shown in brackets.

RAW INERT MEAL (7,5) AWFUL RECOIL (11) Solution: IN REAL EGG (6,3) A MOTTO (6) CRIED (5) RICH EAT OK (9) CHANGE MAP (9) A SUGAR SAP (9) RE A JUG ON ICE (6,5) EMU LEG (6) EAT (3) COOL CHEAT (9)

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SUDOKU PUZZLE The rules of Sudoku are simple. Place a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so every row, every column, and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

Solution:

MINERAL WATER CAULIFLOWER GINGER ALE TOMATO CIDER ARTICHOKE CHAMPAGNE ASPARAGUS ORANGE JUICE LEGUME TEA CHOCOLATE