Wardside House Gazette
May 2022
New Residents:
We welcome back Mrs Mary Miller as a permanent resident, and Mr Alasdair Laing who joins us for a respite period – we hope you enjoy your stay with us.
Resident News:
It is with sadness we announce the passing of one of our residents. Catherine MacQueen passed away peacefully in her sleep on the 2nd of May. She had been with us at Wardside for 14 years and will be very much missed by all of us.
We congratulate the birthdays of Elaine Bamber (94) and Andrew Hodge (104!). We hope you had a lovely day and enjoyed yourselves – Elaine’s daughter Sara made a beautiful cake! Looks scrumptious!
Staff News:
We received the news that Rosyln gave birth to a baby girl, and named her Maria. Congratulations Roz!
The lovely Maria Verdu joins the Wardside team as our new activities co-ordinator (a different Maria from the one named in the above paragraph, perhaps a little young to host an activities class?). At the moment she is coming on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, and is coming up with all sorts of ideas for activities – welcome Maria!
Information on what activities are on can be found on the noticeboard, or feel free to ask a member of staff.
Activities
We have all sorts of activities planned!
Mondays we have Kirsty from Live Active hold exercise classes at 2.45pm and Quiz night at 4.30pm with Chrissie
Tuesdays Maria for exercise/crafts/music & Linda for scrabble in the mornings
Wednesdays Tammy the hairdresser comes in, & the cooks meeting in the mornings
Thursdays Maria for exercise/crafts/music & Linda for scrabble in the mornings
Fridays Maria exercise/crafts/music/gardening & Movie Night in the mornings
We are still finding our feet whilst we try different activities. If you have any suggestions, please let Maria or another member of staff know. We hope to have a monthly activities calendar in due course.
Cook’s Meetings are held at 10.30am each Wednesday. The proposed menu for the forthcoming week is explained in detail by one of the cooks on duty. Residents are given the opportunity to praise or complain about anything on the previous week’s menu and, if necessary, the cook takes note.
Quiz Nights are back with a new quizmaster! Chrissie will host them each Monday evening at 4.30pm in the lounge. She has a host of questions to challenge the mind. The questions are addressed to the whole group for anyone to answer if they know it.
The Mobile Library comes on the first Wednesday of each month. They are able to delivery books or audiobooks. If you would like to get involved let a member of staff know!
Only the English could invent this Language
(author unknown)
We will begin with a box, and the plural is boxes. But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese. Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse in a nest full of mice, yet the plural of house is houses not hice.
If the plural of man is called men, then shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen? If I speak of my foot and show my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down , in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And in closing, if Father is Pop, how come mother is not Mop? And if people from Poland are called Poles, the people from Holland should be called Holes and the Germans Germs.
(author unknown)
We will begin with a box, and the plural is boxes. But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese. Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse in a nest full of mice, yet the plural of house is houses not hice.
If the plural of man is called men, then shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen? If I speak of my foot and show my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down , in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And in closing, if Father is Pop, how come mother is not Mop? And if people from Poland are called Poles, the people from Holland should be called Holes and the Germans Germs.
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