Save the Date!! Annual Fete 29th October.

Isn't Spring gorgeous! Its amazing how in the first week of September everything starts to grow again. How lovely to feel truly warm again after such a cold winter.

With winter woolies and blankets no longer necessary its time to start knitting toys and novelties for the annual fete. The Fete last year was a great success and this year promises to be even better. The ladies of the sewing group a.k.a "The Recycle Company" have been turning all the piles and piles of donated fabric and notions and yarn into new and exciting items for the home and gifts for the family. These include peg bags, laundry and shoe bags, pencil cases, baby quilts, pot holders, oven gloves , shopping bags, needlecases and kiddies toys. All the things one used to find at fetes and bazaars in the good old days when women didn't go out to work and had time to bake and sew for Charity.

We have been given a huge quantity of pristine household items to sell and these will be on display as well as the usual "white elephant" stall, plants and bakes and breakfast and teas will be served.

On the Home front there are lots of new developments e.g. the new covered verandha and the walking path which the Garden Club ladies have offered to plant with sweet smelling herbs and flowers.
Furniture and pictures received been used to enhance the Homes public rooms and passages.
We have a resident Handyman now. Des arrived in a wheelchair as a result of a stroke and true to form Linda had him up and about in no time. He is one of those people who have the knack of being able to fix anything and he has proved himself invaluable in a place like the Home where there is constant maintenance to be done. The outhouses were turned into a comfortable cottage for Des made possible by a donation from BBS Eshowe and the Homes Fund.

"Age is opportunity no less than youth itself,
though in another dress.
And as the evening twilight fades away
the sky is filled with stars,

Invisible by day. " Longfellow