quote of the month · fremantle. the inclusion of military fenians also flouted ... the january...
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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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January Newsletter 2017 Vol. 1/2017
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
Vol. 1/2017
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
Vol. 1/2017
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