Welcome! The NHS are now following up to make sure nobody is being missed out on the vaccine roll out, and local Care Homes have been done. If you get a lift to the vaccine centre make sure you are safe. It ’s a strange drive - with masks on and the windows down to ventilate as you go. Wrap up warm!

are no plans to set up a vaccine centre in Framlingham. Hour Community transport can take you there. This is such a promising start to the New Year!

What an achievement - thank you NHS!

Prepared as part of the Covid Response Team’s efforts to support individuals and families who are self isolating.

but not aloneFRAM at HOME

Framlingham Covid-19 Response NewsletterN O 18

Although the vaccine is here now, and what a relief, we do find ourselves anxiously waiting for our individual appointments. Hopefully, if you are in the top priority group, by the time you read this you will have had your jab - volunteers are helping out alongside the NHSat local vaccine centres to make sure appointments are efficiently and safely processed. You might be contacted by phone, by post, or even a text (if they have your mobilephone number), so keep a look out! The nearest centres are in Debenham, Saxmundham and Woodbridge. Our advice is to accept the time and place offered to make sure you receive your vaccine at the earliest opportunity - there

Poppy’s Pantry is a special social enterprise in Melton which which remained open for most of the last year, despite the pandemic. More than just a wholefood shop, Poppy’s Pantry offers wellbeing placements to adults with learning disabilities for fulfilment work and life skills. They also run a pop-up café at St Mary’s Church Hall on Tuesday’s.

I found all this out from Vince, a Fram resident who has been working there for the past 12 months. “We all socialise together, collaborating on jobs, and the whole team enjoys interacting with the public - providing a high quality customer service (pre-covid of course).” Activities include cooking in a lunch club, baking cakes, customer service, operating the till, stock control, shelf stacking,

pricing, labelling, re-bagging, and fulfilment jobs, as well as Learning & Development courses run by the Suffolk based company Realise Futures.“There has been lots of positive feedback from our customers, who feel it is a safer way to shop, rather than venturing into busy supermarkets. We have introduced many new safety measures, which were enthusiastically adopted by all.” These include rigorous cleaning schedules, a shop queuing system, hand hygiene and wearing of masks.Lisa Mann, their shop manager, said there is plenty of opportunity for wellbeing participants to be creative, making stuff for the window display, special arrangements on shop shelves, anddecorating the wall displays inside the building. “A special project was to ask everybody to colourin rainbows and hearts so we could do a big window display. And leading up to Christmas our daily Advent photos on Facebook, which we

started three years ago, became our most successful yet." They have found that customers love seeing people who attend Poppy’s alongside selected examples of new products.Poppy’s Pantry have recently launched a new click & collect service - see their website atwww.poppyspantryshop.co.uk where you can shop online, and then collect in store, or from a distance. Orders can also be made by phone: 01394 389599

What are you up to - what’s changed?We would love to hear your stories of your

experiences over the last ten months - and share them with our readers. Please contact Marion at: support@framlingham.com

Above: Vince Langdon-Morris with James Last (Poppy’s Pantry Shop Assistant) from Framlingham

Above: Nicky of Poppy’s Pantry gives the thumbs up for refilling containers

Answers: ANAGRAM - acne, cane, cave, ceca, Inca, naive, nave, nevi, nice, vain, vane, vein, vena, vice, vine, vinca PHOTO PUZZLE - pictures of food: biscuit, cucumber, cereals, pasta

The way we were...

Photo puzzle - what on earth is this?

Anagramword game:

Really hard winters seem now to be a thing of the past! Here is Framlingham’s mere frozen over showing many activities on the ice - including skating, hockeyand curling! Sadly no date to the photo… but it looks like the 1960’s or 70’s perhaps?

Wintery twig people - made with just a few snips!

From: Framlingham Historical Archive

How many words of 4 or more letters can you make from VACCINE? - we found 14 four letter words, and only 2 five letter words. Of these 3 are plural versions.

A conundrum...

Our “Cocoon” Volunteers and the Hour Community are here to help you. They are part of an active network of support for everyone in Framlingham - we will be able to help all those who need it.

let’s get talking...

Framlingham SupportFRAM RESPONSE TEAM - for your Cocoon Volunteer, general advice, and for delivery of this newsletter (A5 small or A4 large print). It’s also on our website with lots of other helpful info at: www.framlingham.com, email: support@framlingham.com, or phone: 01728 720183

HOUR COMMUNITY is the one to contact for deliveries of food & medicinesemail: admin@hourcommunity.co.uk or phone: 01728 440511

MEALS ON WHEELS - For a meal everyday call Aspect Living phone: 01473 749927

NHS - for medical help go to the online service: 111.nhs.uk For emergencies - phone: 999

FRAM MEDICAL PRACTICE - for all info: www/framlinghamsurgery.co.ukfor telephone appointments - phone: 01728 723627for repeat prescriptions - it is best if you can download the NHS appemail prescriptions: IESCCG.framlingham-dispensary@nhs.net

WORRY TREE are there for people suffering from anxiety/worries - phone: 01728 440533

SUFFOLK FAMILY FOCUS SUPPORT offer weekly telephone service to any struggling families, phone: 07920 088660 or 07880 149865

SOCIAL/PERSONAL CARE - first call your own care provider- if that fails email: CUSTOMER FIRST - customer.first@suffolk.gov.uk- only phone if it is a social care crisis: ref adults: 0800 917 1109 ref children: 0808 800 4005

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Remember you can find a lot of information on the Covid pages of our website which is updated regularly: www.framlingham.com The next issue of Fram at Home will be in the Mar/April issue of Framfare

If you need a lift to get to the vaccine centre, the Hour Community have drivers ready to take you there. Be prepared to sit and wait at the centre, both before and after your jab, so wrap up warm.Call them on: 01728 440511