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The Happy Whisperer RM Begg Newsletter. Issue No. 12, December 2013

RM Begg Kyneton Aged Care Inc

27-35 Epping Street, Kyneton, Victoria 3444 [email protected] Ph. 03 5422 2417or 03 5422 2506

Opening Hours: Monday to Friday: 9am to 5pm

Resident Meeting Tuesday

3rd

December @ 10.30am

Barfold/Cobaw

Activity area.

All Welcome!

Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas

Congratulations to Jess & Callum Wright . A baby girl

born Monday 25th November Billie Lynne

6lb 5oz

Special Events Chair Yoga has commenced every Tuesday and Thursday @ 9.30am followed by balance exercises and light hand weights. Chair yoga promotes relaxation, improves posture, strengthens muscles and improves coordination. Please come along and give it a go! “Music with Jo” will be held alternate weeks to our Monday Sing a long. Come along and enjoy Jo’s wonderful live music and singing. Tues 3rd -“Happy Wanderers” entertainment 1.30pm Wed 4th-Blumes Fashion sales 10.30am Fri 6th-RSL Lunch outing. Bus leaving 11.30am Tues 10th-School children - Xmas morning tea & carols 10.15am & Alfred & Wendy Entertainment at 2pm Thurs 12th-“The Twilighters” entertainment at 2pm Fri 13th-Gisborne Singers entertainment at 1.30pm Tues 17th-Ladies Aux special afternoon tea at 2pm

Wed 18th-Tylden Primary School Xmas Carols at 1.30pm. Tues 24th-Xmas eve party at 2pm. Wed 25th-MERRY CHRISTMAS! (Public Holiday – no activities) Thurs 26

th-Boxing Day (Public Holiday – no activities) Tues 31st- “The year that was” 10.30am & New Years Eve party 2pm. The next Podiatrist visit will be Tuesday 10th December The next Library visits will be Wed 4th & Wed 18th December @ 1pm Please note the change to library date to Wed 18th December instead of 25th due to Xmas Day. Sunday Church Service December 1st-John Coventry with music by John. December 8th-Ben and Kate Spooner. December 15th-Leigh and Sarah Thorne with music by Marj Williams. December 22nd-Ray and Marj Williams. December 29th-John and Ruth Green with music by Marj Williams. WELCOME We would like to welcome new staff member Cally Robertson-Snow. We hope you will enjoy working with the great team at RMB!


Melbourne Cup Sweep winners

Congratulations to our winners!

Sweep 1: Viv Buckley & Jean Taylor.

Sweep 2: Arthur Sullivan, Jack Aldred &

Madge Eaton.

Sweep 3: Nancy Begg, Lainie Allison &

Joan Lewis.

Sweep 4: Dulcie Merr igan, Joan Johnson

& Alec McMeekin.

Thank you to all residents & staff that

participated in our celebration.

A great day was had by all!

Kyneton Agricultural Show

Congratulations to Richard Laussen for

winning two first prizes for his knitted socks

and Doreen Willis for equal first for her

knitted toddler’s pullover.

Residents

December 2nd-Mavis Healey

December 6th-Jack Aldridge

December 15th-Shirley Pinnington

December 27th-Daisy Conron

Staff

December 5th-Lesley Simmons

December 8th-Sue Sullivan

December 13th-Caitlin Moore

December 19th-Michelle Gatehouse

December 20th-Robyn Barker

December 28th-Elizabeth Harvey

RMB Auxiliary

“Christmas Stalls” Huge variety of goodies available

to purchase.

Thursday 5th December

@ 10am – 12 noon.

Barfold/Cobaw activities room.

Blumes Fashions Blumes clothing

sales will be held

at RMB.

Wednesday

4th December

10.30am

Cobaw/Barfold

lounge. They have

a lovely selection

of clothing at

reasonable prices.


H A P P Y H O U R

We are now holding ‘Happy Hour’ in Langley every Thursday at 4pm.

Come along & enjoy a sherry, beer,

shandy or lemonade & a chat with the other residents!

All Welcome...

Christmas Festivities Around The World

Finnish kids leave out a sheaf of grain, nuts

and seeds, tied on a pole in the garden for

birds.

In Argentina, children place their shoes out-

side the front door to be filled by the Three

Kings with presents and leave hay and wa-

ter for the King's horses.

Christmas in the Czech Republic begins

with the visit of Svaty Mikalas, who climbs

down to earth from heaven using a golden

rope, carrying a sack filled with presents for

good children and a sack filled with sticks

for naughty ones.

Muslims do not have Christmas, but in Oc-

tober or November, they celebrate the

Greater Eid with special family meals,

sweet foods, new clothes, gifts, prayers and

giving to the poor.

In India, many people celebrate Diwali, by

lighting small clay lamps filled with oil to

signify the triumph of good over evil. These

lamps are kept on during the night, the

house is cleaned, and firecrackers are burst

in order to drive away spirits.

Swedish Christmas celebrations begin with

Saint Lucy’s Day when candles and glowing

stars are placed in every window. Presents

are brought by the Jultomte, an invisible

gnome who watches over the house. If you

don’t feed the Jultomte with a small bowl of

porridge, he will bring bad luck!

Merry Christmas in...

Argentina - Feliz Navidad!

Brazil - Boas Festas!

China (Mandarin) - Kung His Hsin Nien

bing Chu Shen Tan!

Croatia - Sretan Bozic!

Denmark - Glædelig Jul!

Esperanto - Gajan Kristnaskon!

Finland - Hyvää Joulua!

France - Joyeux Noël!


Our love and

thoughts

are with the

Hatcher

family &

friends with

the recent

passing of

Regina. She

will be sadly

missed by

everyone at

RMB.

Germany - Froehliche Weihnachten!

Greece - Kala Christouyenna!

Hawaii - Mele Kalikimaka!

Iceland - Gledileg Jol!

India - Shub Naya Baras!

Indonesia /Malaysia - Selamat Hari Natal!

Iraq - Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah!

Ireland - Nollaig Shona Dhuit!

Italy - Buone Feste Natalizie!

Japan - Shinnen omedeto!

Korea - Sung Tan Chuk Ha!

Lapland - Buorrit Juovllat!

Native America (Navajo) - Merry

Keshmish!

Netherlands - Vrolijk Kerstfeest!

New Zealand (Maori) - Meri Kirihimete!

Philippines - Maligayang Pasko!

Poland - Wesolych Swiat Bozego

Narodzenia!

Portugal - Boas Festas!

Russia - Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozh-

destva is Novim Godom!

Serbia - Hristos se rodi!

Spain - Feliz Navidad!

Sri Lanka - Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthuk-

kal!

Sweden + Norway - God Jul!

Thailand - Sawadee Pee Mai!

Vietnam - Chung Mung Giang Sinh!

Yugoslavia - Cestitamo Bozic!


ON THIS DAY........DECEMBER

1st – Bingo invented in 1929 by Edwin S.

Lowe (USA).

3rd – The Eureka Stockade happened in

Ballarat in 1854. 6 soldiers & 30 diggers

were killed.

9th – Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke

was born in 1929.

13th – Aviators Ross & Smith flew from

England to Australia in 1919.

15th – The Commonwealth Invalid Pension

came into operation in 1910. It provided a

safety net for those unable to work through

illness.

16th – Australian women voted for the first

time in a Federal Election in 1903.

17th – Prime Minister Harold Holt

disappeared without a trace whilst

swimming at Portsea in 1967.

20th – Former Prime Minister Robert Men

zies was born in 1894.

20th – Radio Australia begins overseas

shortwave service in 1939.

25th – Cyclone Tracey destroyed Darwin in

1974.

28th – Earthquake in Newcastle in 1989.

11 people died.

How many of these do you remember???

1. Norwegian scientists have hypothesized that Rudolph’s red nose is probably the result of a parasitic infection of his respir-atory system.

2. The Germans made the first artificial Christmas trees out of dyed goose feath-ers.

3. Each year more than 3 billion Christmas cards are sent in the U.S. alone.

4. All the gifts in the Twelve Days of Christ-mas would equal 364 gifts.

5. The “true love” mentioned in the song “Twelve Days of Christmas” does not re-fer to a romantic couple, but the Catholic Church’s code for God. The person who receives the gifts represents someone who has accepted that code. For example, the “partridge in a pear tree” represents Christ. The “two turtledoves” represent the Old and New Testaments.

6. A parasitic infection may be the cause of Rudolph's red nose. Most of Santa’s rein-deer have male-sounding names, such as Blitzer, Comet, and Cupid. However, male reindeers shed their antlers around Christ-mas, so the reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh are likely not male, but female or castrati.

7. In A.D. 350, Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome, proclaimed December 25 the offi-cial celebration date for the birthday of Christ.

8. According to the Guinness world records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir that was displayed in 1950 at the Northgate Shopping Center in


Seattle, Washington.

9. The traditional three colors of Christmas are green, red, and gold. Green has long been a symbol of life and rebirth; red symbolizes the blood of Christ, and gold represents light as well as wealth and royalty.

10. Two weeks before Christmas is a popu-lar time for couples to break up. Accord-ing to data analyzed from Facebook posts, two weeks before Christmas is one of the two most popular times for couples to break up. However, Christmas Day is the least favorite day for breakups.

11. Contrary to popular belief, suicide rates during the Christmas holiday are low. The highest rates are during the spring.

12. The world’s largest Christmas stocking measured 106 feet and 9 inches (32.56 m) long and 49 feet and 1 inch (14.97 m) wide. It weighed as much as five rein-deer and held almost 1,000 presents. It was made by the Children’s Society in London on December 14, 2007.

13. Christmas trees have been sold in the U.S. since 1850.

14. Christmas trees usually grow for about 15 years before they are sold.

15. Many European countries believed that spirits, both good and evil, were active during the Twelve Days of Christmas. These spirits eventually evolved into Santa’s elves, especially under the influ-ence of Clement C. Moore’s The Night Before Christmas(1779-1863) illustrated by Thomas Nast (1840-1902).

16. Each year there are approximately 20,000 “rent-a-Santas” across the United

States. “Rent-a-Santas” usually undergo seasonal training on how to maintain a jolly attitude under pressure from the public. They also receive practical ad-vice, such as not accepting money from parents while children are looking and avoiding garlic, onions, or beans for lunch.

17. Bolivians celebrate Misa del Gallo or “Mass of the Rooster” on Christmas Eve. Some people bring roosters to the mid-night mass, a gesture that symbolizes the belief that a rooster was the first animal to announce the birth of Jesus.

18. The British wear paper crowns while they eat Christmas dinner. The crowns are stored in a tube called a “Christmas cracker.”

19. In Poland, spiders or spider webs are common Christmas trees decorations be-cause according to legend, a spider wove a blanket for Baby Jesus. In fact, Polish people consider spiders to be symbols of goodness and prosperity at Christmas

20. Alabama was the first state in the United States to officially recognize Christmas in 1836.


GIVING APPEAL Our Giving Appeal was launched in January 2012 for

donations towards costs of building our new facility.

Total $739,628 All donations that we receive are greatly appreciated and we thank

everyone for their contributions.

FUNDRAISING Thank you to those who have made donations

Our total so far is $46,304! Our fundraising efforts for our new facility are now growing.

If you would like to make a donation please complete the form below and return to our CEO Sarah Collier, RM Begg Kyneton Aged Care Inc

YES I want to make a gift of $_______to RM Begg Kyneton Aged Care

Please find my cheque/cash enclosed.

Name_____________________Address________________________

_________________________Postcode_______Ph_______________

Email__________________________


Loose Change Fundraiser.

Did you know the average person

collects $35.00 in loose change each month in a cup

or jar? We are launching a loose change program, a

fun and

simple way for people to financially support RM

Begg by collecting their loose change and donating it

to our rebuilding program.

We hope to see lots of coins making a difference to

our fundraising efforts!

We’re excited that Bendigo Bank is our partner in

this program. They have

generously donated 150 piggy banks and we thank

them for their support!

The piggy banks are available for

collection at RM Begg reception. When they are full

you can return them to us or take them to a local

Bendigo Bank branch for depositing.

Thank you for your support!

SUGGESTIONS The suggestions slip can be used to give suggestions about anything at all!

We still have our Comments/Complaints form that you can use if you want to. We thought that the suggestion slip would be convenient attached to the

newsletter and you could jot down any ideas that you may have. Please fill out this form & drop it in to one of the suggestion boxes. There is one in the Coffee

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Inventors and Inventions Fit the underlined words correctly into the grid on the left.

Inventors and inventions, Seeds of progress sown. Some were cheered, others feared, Some remain unknown. The radio; the safety pin; The telescope; the dime; The key and lock; atomic clock But who invented time? The limousine; the satellite; Photography and lace; The sprocket and the rocket But who invented space? The paper cup; the mobile phone; The wheel; the pick-up truck; Feet and yards; playing cards But who invented luck? The TV and the light bulb; The electron microscope; Chopsticks and politics But who invented hope? Battle lines; exclusion zones; Ways to devastate; The fighter jet; the bayonet But who invented hate? The motor car; the tricycle; The gauntlet and the glove; The teddy bear; the rocking chair But who invented love? Who created life on Earth And all that we can see? What soul or mind, of wondrous kind, Invented you and me?

Inventors and Inventions

There was once a great czar in Russia named Rudolph the Red. He stood looking out the windows of is palace one

day while his wife, the Czarina Katerina, sat nearby knitting. He turned to her and said, "Look my dear, it has

begun to rain!" Without even looking up from her knitting she replied, "It's too cold to rain. It must be

sleeting." The Czar shook his head and said, "I am the Czar of all the Russias, and Rudolph the Red knows rain,

dear!" Answers on page 12


Do you know someone with

some spare time. Maybe

they would like to join our

volunteers?

There are many different

ways to help and is very re-

warding. It doesn’t need to

take a lot of time… Just one

hour a week would be

great! Please see our CEO

Sarah Collier for more

information.

Across

1.Tune (6)

4. Shriek (6)

9. Elaborate ceremony (7)

10. Youngster (5)

11. Plaudit (5)

12. Dried grapes (7)

13. Comfort (6)

15. Slapstick (6)

18. Lamp (7)

20. Legally acceptable (5)

23. Happening (5)

24. Coach (7)

25. Tallies (6)

26. Tiers (6)

Down

1. Tree (5)

2. Licit (5)

3. Extreme (7)

5. Desert plants (5)

6. Building (7)

7. Freedom from vanity

or conceit (7)

8. Rear part of a ship (5)

13. Prominent (7)

14. Soft or indulgent (7)

16. Avert (7)

17. Combine (5)

19. Laud (5)

21. Spear (5)

22. Sews (5)

Answers on page 12


Solution - Inventors and Inventions

Q: How many birth days does the average

person have?

A:Just one, all the rest are anniversaries.


An Engineer's View of Santa Claus No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the work-load to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an aver-age (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the ro-tation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will ac-cept), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household, a total trip of 71.604 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional rein-deer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as space crafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per second each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be va-porized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifu-gal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrous-ly slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's been vaporized by now!

RM Begg Services

Laundry

Meals

Cleaning

Personal Care

Pastoral Care

Hairdressing

Happy Whisperer Newsletter

Visiting Allied Health Professionals

Counselling, Activities (in house and External)

Visiting Psychologist

Diabetes Educator

Social Worker

Speech Pathologist

Clinical Care

Continence Management

Wound Management

Palliative Care

Podiatry

Physiotherapist

Dietician

Specialists

Accredited Pharmacist

Consulting GP's

Aged Persons Mental Health Team

Dental Van

Support provided by

Palliative Care Team

District Nursing Service

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