Strawberries and Summer Bonnets

We had a very jolly and successful Strawberry Tea in July with lots of things going on. The tables were beautifully decorated with posies of flowers along with plates of scones, strawberries and lots of cream, all of which added to the atmosphere. As well as the tea we had a fun game courtesy of Jim – a race on his sound and light machine with some fun prizes for the best 3 competitors. We also had a decorated summer bonnet competition and some excellent entries for that. The hat decorations were very varied and included fruit, flowers, cocktail umbrellas, and miniature ‘windmills’ to give a few examples. The winning hat however was strikingly decorated by Janet Curtis with lovely shells and had a band around it saying ‘she sells sea shells at the sea shore.’

We also had some visitors to our tea – Joanne came from the British Lung Foundation to give us an update. The BLF is having to streamline and Joanne, along with the other Development Officers, are losing their jobs. Joanne was starting a new job the following week so it gave us the chance to say farewell to her. The Breathe Easy network will be supported in future by a team in Liverpool known as BLF Direct. Our other visitors were Karen Cotter from the Pulmonary Rehabilitation team and two new members of the team - Carol the Rehab team’s new secretary and Anita the new Specialist Respiratory Nurse who will be based in Faversham. We rounded the afternoon off with a raffle which raised a much appreciated £35.