What’s on this month:

(detailed schedule attached at back of newsletter)

4th Men’s Shed 4th Pancake making 6th Bus trip 8th Elvis Presley’s birthday 13th Bus trip 16th Trivia 18th Carpet bowls 19th & 25th Multicultural movie 20th Bus trip 26th Australia Day 26th Monthly birthday concert 27th Bus trip 28th Global Belly Laugh Day

A message from the Director of Care

Dear Residents, Relatives, Friends, Volunteers & Staff,

Happy New Year and a big welcome to 2017! I hope you all had a wonderful and happy Christmas break.

I would like to thank all of our hardworking staff members for another successful and busy year, of course volunteers and families are also invaluable to our facility!

We are looking forward to an exciting year ahead with an enhanced recreation program, continuing internal floor renovations across the facility and commencing construction next door.

As always, if you have any requests or feedback please speak to our staff members, Kate or myself who will be more than happy to assist you.

Kind regards,

Grace Thein

Director of Care

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We would like to thank everyone who bought

tickets in our Christmas raffle, we raised

valuable funds for our residents to enjoy.

Congratulations to the winners: George

Nobbs, Fay Price, Jacky Barikcha and Hina

Fazrine.

We would also like to thank Gerald and his

team for making delicious food for our many

Christmas celebrations.

Quote of the Month: New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. Sarah Ban Breathnach

January Newsletter 2017

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Australia's last convict ship

Bus Outings

This month bus trips are scheduled for Fridays,

09.30am departure. Please book to avoid

disappointment!

Hairdressing Salon

• Our hairdresser Angela visits us fortnightly on

Tuesdays, please let the recreation team know if you’d

like an appointment arranged.

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IT'S A WARM SUMMER'S day on 9 January

1868 in Fremantle, Western Australia, and the last

convict ship to transport prisoners to Australia is

just coming in to port.

Upon seeing Australia for the first time, the

prisoners no doubt feel a frisson of excitement

mingled with a little fear, despite their sentences -

compared to the gallows, Australia isn't looking too

bad.

It has been a relatively uneventful voyage - only one

convict has died in the 89 days the ship has been at

sea - but an unusual one; due to the reasonably high

number of literate convicts from the complement of

political prisoners from the Fenian Rising the

previous year, the voyage even had its own

newspaper: The Wild Goose, of which all seven

handwritten issues survive in the State Library of

New South Wales.

Babette Smith, historian and author of Australia's

Birthstain: the startling legacy of the convict era,

says that transportation wasn't as bad as its legacy

decries. "Most of the prisoners got access to medical

care and to meat," she says. "And their children

were often markedly taller and stronger."

Some crimes were even carefully premeditated to

warrant transportation with a lenient sentence as an

escape from poverty in Britain, or to join family

members.

Hougoumont - the last convict ship

The ship itself was no stranger to penal

transportation; it was originally owned by Duncan

Dunbar, who between 1840 and 1868 provided

nearly a third of the ships that transported convicts.

Under the direction of Luscombe of London, it set

off from the Sheerness, on the Isle of Sheppey in the

Thames Estuary, on the 30 September 1867, sailed

along the south coast of Britain to Portland in

Dorset to pick up more convicts, and finally

departed Portsmouth on the 12 October, with 280

convicts and 108 passengers, helmed by William

Cozens.

The complement of convicts included 62 Fenians,

including 17 from the military, a contingent which

convicts and 108 passengers, helmed by William Cozens.

The complement of convicts included 62 Fenians,

including 17 from the military, a contingent which

contravened an agreement between the United Kingdom

and Western Australia, leading to a brief panic in

Fremantle. The inclusion of military Fenians also flouted

the UK's unwritten policy not to transport military

prisoners.

Due to the high literacy rate amongst the prisoners, the

voyage produced a number of diaries and accounts,

notably those of Denis Cashman and Thomas McCarthy

Fennell, and John Boyle O'Reilly's letters.

This final complement of convicts signalled the end of a

significant period in Australian history. Between 1788

and 1868, more than 165,000 convicts were transported to

Australia, of which 10,000 were sent to Western

Australia.

Australia's convict legacy

Now, it is estimated that two million Britons and four

million Australians have convict ancestors.

Without convict labour, the first arriving with the First

Fleet in 1788, Australia might have initially struggled as a

British colony, especially after 1810, when convict labour

was increasingly used to develop the colonial

infrastructure - roads, causeways, bridges, courthouses

and hospitals.

Babette says "the expectation developed very early on

that [Australia] provided a better opportunity for poor

people." By 1868, transportation had been campaigned

against in Eastern Australia, originating some of the

brutal legends about convict history, but in WA it was a

case of brushing it under the carpet. "For Western

Australia, the whole period was best forgotten."

By the time penal transportation ended, Australia had

grown to a population of more than 1 million - compared

to just 30,000 in 1821 - and it was finally large enough to

be autonomous, to sustain itself and grow.

And while the shroud of convict transportation has hung

over Australia's shoulders as somewhat of a negative

stereotype, there's no doubt it wouldn't be the country it is

today without them.

SANTA VISITS THE MANOR Christmas 2016

A visit from some special puppy visitors – December 2016

Bus trip 23rd December, 2016

January Newsletter 2017

Birthdays for November

A very happy birthday to the following resident who celebrate his birthday in November:

January Birthstone

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Celebrate Australia Day on 26th January

Our monthly birthday celebration is scheduled

for the

26th January

1st T Trinh 3rd A Milocco 16th E Vass

25th J Heeger

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

January Birth Flower The January Birth Flower is the

Carnation

Meaning of the January Birth Flower: The general meaning of the January Birth Flower, the Carnation is love,

fascination, and distinction

Sign of the Zodiac and Dates: Capricorn - December 22 - January 20

Your ruler Saturn's two year stay in the lofty Sagittarius is now underway, Cap, and you may have noticed ever so slightly in the past year or two how elements of your life are seemingly fading away. It's subtle, as if you catch the action out of the corner of your eye, but you are in a finishing up phase, especially in career matters. What is actually happening is you are clearing the decks for a new bigger and better beginning. Those wild-card eclipses in 2015 and into 2016 drop a hint or two about career elevation or change as early as March, but it isn't until September that Jupiter moves into the Tenth House and actually spells out new happenings that could be eminent. As the year begins you have Pluto in the First House of your chart and there is a new intensity to you personally as well as in both love and career relationships. This is basically a getting-in-touch-with-yourself transit and you could be surprised at your own control issues and how deep they really go.

Facility: The Manor Fairfield East MONTH: January YEAR: 2017

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 New Year’s Day

Exercises

10.15 New Year’s Quiz 1.30pm Reminiscing

2 09.30am Gentle Exercises

with Physio Aid 10.15am Scrabble Squares 1.30pm Arm Chair Travel

3

J.R.R Tolkien Birthday 1892 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15 am Word Find

1.30pm or

1.30pm Wii Games

4 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15am Men’s Shed

Or Pancake Making

1.30pm

5 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15am Sing a Long

1.30pm Or

Reminiscing

6 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 09.30am Bus Trip

1.30pm Poetry Reading

3.00pm Moo Mobile

7 9.30amExercises 10.15am Ball Games 1.30pm Word Games or Aroma Therapy Individual visits

8

Elvis Presley Birthday, 1935

Exercises

Everything Elvis!

9 09.30am Gentle Exercises

with Physio Aid 10.15 Spot the Difference

1.30pm Ball games Individual visits

10

Last Convict Delivery 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15am Crosswords

1.30pm Or

Music

11 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15am Men’s Shed

or Magazine/Book Browsing

1.30pm Wii Games

12 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15 Sing a Long

1.30pm or

Mindful Meditation

13 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 09.30am Bus Trip

10.15am Men’s Shed 1.30pm A Current affairs

Discussion

3pm Moo Mobile

14 9.30am Exercises 10.15am Crosswords 1.30pm Aroma Therapy Individual Visits

15 9.30amExercises

10.15am Sing A Long 1.30pm Aroma Therapy and

Hand Massages 2.30pm Individual visits

16 09.30am Gentle Exercises

with Physio Aid 10.15am Trivia

1.30pm Beauty Care Individual visits

17 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15 am Current Affair

Discussion

1.30pm Or

Gardening

18 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15am Men’s Shed

0r Brain Games

1.30 Carpet Bowls

19 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15 am Sing a Long

1.30 pm

Or Mindful Meditation

2.30pm Multicultural Movie

20 09.30am Gentle Exercises

with Physio Aid Bus Trip

10.15am Men’s Shed

1.30pm Table Games

3pm Moo Mobile

21 9.30amExercises 10.15am Table Games 1.30pm Aroma Therapy Individual visits

22 09.30amExercises

10.30am Word Games 1.30pm Quoits

3pm Aroma Therapy

23 09.30am Gentle Exercises

with Physio Aid 10.15amCurrent Affairs

Discussion 1.30pm Beauty Care & Hand

Massages

24 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15am Reminiscing

1.30pm Or

Carpet Bowls

25 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15am Men’s Shed

or Book/Magazine browsing

2.30pm Multicultural Movie

26

Australia Day 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.15am Pick A box Quiz

1.30pm or

Reminiscing

27 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid Bus Trip

10.15am Men’s Shed 1.30pm Words In Words

3pm Moo Mobile

28

Global Belly Laugh Day 09.30am Exercises 10.30am Let’s Laugh Jokes and Poetry

1.30pm Chinese New Year Celebrations

29 Exercises

10.15am The Price is Right Game

1.30pm Quiz – Things that go together

30 09.30am Gentle Exercises

with Physio Aid 10.15am Newspaper

readings 1.30pm Beauty Care / Hand

Massages

31 09.30am Gentle Exercises with

Physio Aid 10.30am Gardening

1.30pm

Or Table Games

Sunset Club from 4pm daily. For activities refer

to the Sunset planner

Movies Shown daily at 2.30pm in main recreation room

Bible Study

Tuesdays 10.30am in North wing lounge

Morning Tea served Daily at 10am. Afternoon Tea served daily at 2pm