According to Echo News Carehome bosses at Haven Care Home on Harwich Road, Colchester have come up with a bright idea to light up the loos in it's home, preventing falls for its elderly who wake up in the night and take a trip to the bathroom. In addition to illuminated loos, the care home have also installed other glow in the dark features to guide the elderly residents around when they get up at night. This includes footprints leading them to and from the bathroom and also illuminated door-frames and zimmer frames. In the two months since the unique method was installed, only …
Best Gifts for Mothers Day 2017
Mothers Day 2017 is just around the corner, Sunday 26th March to be precise, so we would like to present some of the best gifts to buy for your mother. This special day, which comes around every year, is celebrated in the UK exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday, hence why the date changes every year. Traditionally called Mothering Sunday, this event was historically the first of it's kind. Originated in the UK as early as the 1600's, Mothering Sunday was a day where people, mainly children, visited their 'Mother Church' or the church nearest their home. After visiting church, …
Top Five things about Spring
The Spring Equinox comes on March 20 and marks the beginning of Spring - so get ready for those longer days, where the sun rises earlier and the evenings begin to draw out. Whilst we in the Northern Hemisphere we'll be enjoying warmer days, well hopefully, those south of the equator will be heading into Autumn. As March marks the start of Spring the clocks will also go forward by an hour. This will take place on Sunday March 26 - so don't forget! With this in mind we have taken a moment to list the top five best things about Spring! 1 - More Daylight As we all know, the …
Holi – Festival of Colours
Today many Hindu's are celebrating Holi 2017. This event which is often referred to as the 'festival of colours' or 'festival of love' is a day marked every year which celebrates the beginning of spring and good over evil. Holi celebrations are often recognised for the brightly coloured powders that are thrown over revellers and also huge fires that are lit which celebrate evil being defeated by good. Depending on which region celebrations take place, different aspects are involved. If you've noticed Google has marked the event today with a special Doodle pictured below. Not …
Crufts 2017: A History of The Event
Today is the start of the world's biggest and best dog event, Crufts! The event runs from the March 9-12 this year and fans of the series are actually excited for its return. This family friendly event, which celebrated 125 years back in 2016, is packed full of exciting dog shows, shopping and of-course plenty of dogs to see! The History of Crufts Crufts is named after it's founder Charles Cruft, born June 1852. As a young man after college, Charles decided he didn't want to go into the family jewellery business and took an apprenticeship as an office boy - which subsequently …
Lets Get Talking – National Conversation Week
Lets get talking! In this week's Careline blog we want to discuss the topic of conversation, and it just so happens to be that this week is National Conversation Week. Now what's this might you ask? Well, National Conversation Week, which runs from March 6-12 is a week where people are encouraged to talk! We live in a fast-paced, technology driven world and it's thought that the art of conversation is getting lost because we spend so much time heads-down in laptops and phones. We're all guilty of passing up the opportunity to visit friends and family or even picking up the …
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