Ngaio Notations Christmas 2017

New beginnings for our residents at the daffodil farm

Inside this issue: • Romeo & Juliet celebrations • Little Sister Café outing • Delicious summer menu • Meet Marjorie Ngaio Marsh Retirement Village Christmas Newsletter 2017

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Greetings from Anna...

Welcome to the Christmas edition of Ngaio Notations!

for a bowling and mini golf competition.

Our village has certainly been busy over the last few months with the Romeo & Juliet celebrations, Wellness Month, and the Boccia Challenge held in November.

Our village will be busy over the festive period with some fantastic events so please keep an eye on your calendars for upcoming activities.

The garden team was thrilled to win gold in the recent Spring Garden competition for retirement villages. The competition was judged by the Canterbury Horticulture Society. We’re looking forward to more village walks through our gorgeous gardens this summer!

We recently hosted the inter-village games. Our sister villages, Woodcote, Margaret Stoddart and Essie Summers competed against us in darts and croquet. We also hosted the residents

I am also pleased to say that the Ngaio Marsh road that runs between Grants Road and Grassmere St is nearly completed.

Finally, I wish you a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year! My door is always open if you have any queries.

Kind regards, g

Romeo & Juliet To celebrate the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Ryman Healthcare season of Romeo & Juliet we held our very own masquerade ball.

It was a wonderful night as our resthome, hospital, serviced apartment and townhouse residents came to celebrate.

Everyone dressed in their best ball attire for a lovely evening on the dancefloor. We were lucky to have Doug Caldwell on the piano and Bob Heinz on the guitar for the night.

We hope everyone enjoyed their time!

Anna Thomson Village Manager

Norma Crutchley, Elisabeth Schaap and Jacque q line Schober

Charity partner announced In June, Alzheimer’s NZ was announced as Ryman’s charity partner for the year. Ngaire Dixon, chair of Alzheimer’s New Zealand, was delighted with the announcement as dementia and Alzheimers will become more of an issue in the future. There were more than 62,000 New Zealanders with dementia

in 2016, and the this is forecast to grow to 170,212 people by 2050. Ryman villages include 710 dementia beds and demand for care is growing.

Every dollar raised for Alzheimer’s New Zealand at our villages this year will be matched dollar for dollar by Ryman Healthcare.

Anna Thomson Village Manager Phone: 03 352 5140

Marie Kyle-Stevenson Sales Advisor Phone: 03 354 6608

Call Anna for general enquiries, or any information about resthome and hospital care.

Talk to Marie about retirement living options and availabilities in the village.

95 Grants Road, Papanui, Christchurch • www.ngaiomarsh.co.nz

Claire Whitfield, Karyn Porter and Kristine Llave

Couple goals! Residents Joan and Ernie Selinger

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Summer menu launched!

Our Delicious menus have taken our villages by storm since the launch in February this year. The much-anticipated summer menus combine age-old favourites along with a few new additions, such as the inclusion of couscous.

Hospitality manager Andrew Gibson said that the team concentrated on refining the menus for this edition.

“We’re building on the success of our previous menus by refining the recipes.

We know what works now and we’ll build from there. But we also included a few new dishes.”

Among these new dishes are chefs Paul Kuronic and Steve Iraia’s crab cake dishes.

Paul and Steve both won silver at the New Zealand Hospitality Championships earlier this year, and residents will now get a taste of their creations.

And the best new dish on the menu?

“Definitely the brisket!”

Andrew enthused.

The summer menus were rolled out in October.

Visiting the daffodil farm Recently our serviced apartment residents have been out and about enjoying our wonderful weather at the Templeton Daffodil farm!

It was fantastic to get to learn more about daffodils and to our surprise the daffodil bulbs covered six hectares!

The residents loved walking through the fields of daffodils, tulips, snowflakes and bluebells, and they even got to pick their own flowers to take back home with them.

Peter Mitchell, Joe G uy, Muriel Smith, Mary Hobbs, Helen Walker, Mary Johnso n and activities coordi nator Claire Whitfiel d

It is a great way to spend a stunning afternoon and the smiles on everyone’s faces made the trip even more worthwhile. We will be sure to go back soon!

Cashin Scholarship open for entries

Little Sister Café Our townhouse residents enjoyed a lovely lunch out to the Little Sister Café at Templeton. They had fresh whitebait fritters and salad followed by a lovely dessert, which was a crowd favourite.

The café itself was quite packed as it is a popular place to eat whitebait as soon as it is in season. The staff at the café recognized a few of our residents from previous outings and loved to catch up with them. Overall, it was a wonderful day and delicious meal.

Fozia Tasheem has no doubt that winning the first Cashin Scholarship changed the course of her life.

The 2018 Cashin Scholarship is now open.

Ryman staff and family members undertaking tertiary study in 2018 can apply.

Fozia was studying accounting and information systems at Victoria University and funding her studies was a struggle.

For more details contact David King at: david.king@rymanhealthcare.com

Fozia’s mum, Hushn Bano, was working at Malvina Major as a housekeeper, and Fozia took a part time job there.

“I did everything I could at the village to get extra shifts.’’

In 2011, she applied for the first Cashin Scholarship and it could not have come at a better time.

Lunch date: Ngaire Kilpatrick, Valerie Pent and No rma Crutchley

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Now 25, Fozia has just been promoted to a co-ordinator’s role at Datacom in Wellington, so her career is on the up.

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a munitions factory (she was a Karitane nurse at the time) and I was working as a stenographer for the Waitaki Hospital Board. My mother was with the Womens War Service Auxilary during the war.

Fun with dough

into Our hospital residents delved deep figurines. their creative skills making dough the We made our own salt dough and te qui stretching and kneading was ortunity therapeutic. Everyone loved the opp music. ely to socialise while listening to lov wall We ended up creating figurines and riot decorations which we painted in a rnoon of colours. It was a pleasurable afte spent in each other’s company. nting Nancy Ward and Gerry Kampjes pai their dough figurines

International Month

During International M onth we celebrated diversity in our village.

We learned more about the different cultu res our staff hail from and our staff even dressed up in their traditional dress. It was a fantastic month learning about other cu ltures.

Our staff were stunning in their traditional attire

I am the youngest of three children and I was born and raised in Dunedin. The rest of my family still live in Dunedin and I try to visit them as often as I can.

I have been in this role at Ngaio Marsh for nearly four years and I am really enjoying it. I started at the village back in 2010 after 11 years living in Melbourne and on the Cold Coast in Australia. I returned home to New Zealand for my family and finally settled in Christchurch.

Prior to this job I worked in a dual unit as an enrolled nurse.

Hello, my name is Marjorie Eathorne.

I was born with my twin sister on 8 September 1923 in Wellington.

My father was a lawyer and served in both World Wars earning the rank of Major in World War 1. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC).

We were educated at Auckland Epsom Primary and then at Waitaki Girl’s High School in Oamaru.

During World War II, my sister was sent to

Introducing Raewyn Hello, my name is Raewyn Taylor and I am the serviced apartment coordinator at Ngaio Marsh Retirement Village.

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My job is very fulfilling and challenging and I love that every day is different.

I am part of a great team who all work together to give ppy our residents a happy and enjoyable retirement.

I would like to thank the rest of my team, the residents and their families for their continuing support of me and look forward to many more happy years working as part of the Ngaio Marsh team.

After the war, I was working with External Affairs in Wellington and was posted to SEATO Headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand for over three years. On returning to New Zealand, I was sent to the Navy Office.

I returned to Christchurch and worked as a P.A. for the vice chancellor of the University of Canterbury.

Meanwhile my younger sister sadly passed away at 47 years old, leaving behind four children. After 12 months, my brotherin-law and I decided to give the family a proper home and so we married. I have five step-children of whom I am very proud. One of my grandsons is in the Canterbury Cricket team as a left-handed spin bowler!

I moved to Ngaio Marsh after falling over my cat and breaking my pelvis. I couldn’t be in a better place, where I have made so many good friends. The village has wonderful activities and we have lots of fun!

Ready to Zumba As part of Ryman’s Wellness Month, our staff got together for a Zumba Class during October. Our Triple A instructor Georgie led the class and had everyone dancing to great tunes. It was a surprise for the staff during our monthly meeting and it got a very positive response from the enthusiastic attendees. From the village manager to the chefs, everyone had a great time and lots of laughs as they tried to keep up with the pace.

Altogether a wonderful afternoon!

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Our staff showed of

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Christmas tree cookies Makes approx 10 trees Ingredients: • 2 cups flour • ½ tsp baking soda • 1 tbsp ground ginger • 1 cup (220g) firmly packed soft brown sugar • 150g butter

• 1 egg • Cookie cutter, one shape varying sizes Royal icing sugar: • 2 egg whites • 2 cups icing sugar • 2 tsp vanilla extract

Method: 1. Preheat oven to 180°C. 2. Sift flour, baking soda and ground ginger together in a bowl. Add butter.

3. In a separate bowl beat the egg and sugar until light and fluffy.

4. Mix everything together. Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes.

5. Roll out on a lightly floured surface and cut out the shapes.

6. Bake for 8-10 minutes until golden.

Keep an eye on the smaller cookies so that they don’t burn.

7. Remove from oven and cool on baking rack.

8. Assemble the tree by using a bit of icing sugar between the layers.

Royal icing sugar: Beat egg whites in clean, large bowl with mixer at high speed until foamy. Gradually add sugar and vanilla extract. Beat at high speed until thickened.

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