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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of engaged! It’s time to try something new. While we have COVID-19 surrounding us, that might seem like a bit of a tough ask. But we’re delighted to put the challenge out there, and hope you’re willing to take up the assignment. There are plenty of fun tasks you can set yourself, from starting a new novel, joining in online dance sessions, doing remote language lessons or trying some online entertainment options. You can search online for theatrical, television and movie experiences, some offered on YouTube and other sites, some of which are included in our web post, https://bit.ly/ryorchestra There are plenty of links to wonderful sites, as you will see.
Looking for games to entertain and challenge you?
There are other ‘new’ options such as starting a creative venture, maybe compiling a family history, writing a poem or starting music or painting sessions. Maybe in the past you bought a guitar that is sitting quietly in the corner of your home, just waiting to be picked up.
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We constantly get told we should stretch our minds. Trying something new is no doubt good for your mind, body and soul. For example, plucking those guitar strings is an example of taking a brand-new path forward.
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Chelsea Richdale Operations Activity and Lifestyle Coordinator
Why not download these from the App Store: Wordscapes 2048 Word Search Candy Crush Jigsaw Puzzle
Looking to play, interact and challenge friends and family? Find these in Google Play or the App Store: • • • • •
Words with friends Uno Boggle with friends 8 Ball Pool Yahtzee with buddies
Enter our Father’s Day competition and show how much your dad, granddad, or that special person in your life means to you this Father’s Day. Enter at rymanhealthcare.com.au/fathersday
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Lockdown poetry challenge Perhaps the time is right, during this lengthy lockdown, to create your own ‘poet’s corner’. It could be some couplets scribbled in a notebook, a collection of off-the-cuff limericks, or a thoughtful haiku attached to the fridge. Australians love a bit of homegrown poetry. We take inspiration from Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘I love a sunburnt country’ (My Country) to Banjo Paterson’s bush poems and the lyrics of songsmith Paul Kelly. So the challenge now is for you, our residents, to enter the fray. There is also the work of residents and Kiwi cousins across the Tasman, living in our sister villages, to consider. When Logan Campbell village and Auckland resident Jan Beaumont first decided to put pen to paper, she had no idea her creative efforts would themselves go viral! Three days after posting the poem (see the opening lines below) on her Facebook page, Jan’s poem had racked up more than 7,000 shares and hundreds of comments on her page alone. The normally very social resident at Ryman Healthcare’s Greenlane retirement village says she had been feeling a bit bored on a Saturday so she grabbed a pen and wrote a poem. It describes what it’s like to be one of the ‘oldies’ staying behind closed doors because of the virus, before proceeding to
list some of the mischievous hijinks from her youth. The 13-verse poem has clearly resonated with the online community, many of whom found it very relatable and a real pick-me-up in what is for many a stressful and anxious time. Comments included ‘So true to our generation’, ‘it’s given me a lift for the day’, ‘it says it all for all of us’, and ‘a great poem for us ladies that grew up in the 60s and 70s.’ Jan inspired plenty of other residents to play with words. Jan has also written a blog for Australian website Startsat60.com Here are the beginning lines to Jan’s poem: I’m normally a social girl I love to meet my mates But lately with the virus here We can’t go out the gates. You see, we are the ‘oldies’ now We need to stay inside If they haven’t seen us for a while They’ll think we’ve upped and died. They’ll never know the things we did Before we got this old There wasn’t any Facebook So not everything was told. We may seem sweet old ladies Who would never be uncouth But we grew up in the 60s – If you only knew the truth! …
Colour me!
WORDsearch – Olympic athletics medallists C U T H B E R T N G D N O M R O C D
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TRIO These words can be completed using the same three-letter sequence. Can you find it?
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Simon Shuker’s Codecracker Each number in Codecracker represents a different letter of the alphabet. You have 2 letters in the control grid to start you off. Enter it in the appropriate squares and solve the starter word. Follow the word trail through the puzzle to its completion.
VILLAGEquiz 1. Which city in Australia has the most rainy days? 2. Which 5-piece Australian band of the 1960s had hits including She’s So Fine and Friday On My Mind? 3. Copacabana Beach is in which South American city? 4. Which Italian composer wrote Nessun dorma? 5. A Lipizzaner is what type of animal? 6. In The White House, who followed Nancy and came before Hillary? 7. Of which country was Alberto Fujimori president for 11 years? 8. Which British actor played Oscar Wilde in the 1997 film about the writer?
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DOWN 1. Public square (6) 2. Rope (4) 3. Burden (4) 4. Edict (6) 5. Undergo mental anguish (7) 6. Possess (3) 7. United (8) 8. Blood feud (8) 9. Farm building (4) 10. Smart guy (4) 11. Bullfighter (8) 14. Disapproving sound (3-3) 16. Motionless (5) 18. Travel stamp (4) 22. Hog house (3) 24. Sticky substance (3) 26. Cross the threshold (5) 27. Deceitfulness (9)
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
Can you find the 10 differences between the two pictures?
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Make words of four letters or more using each letter only once but all must contain the centre letter. There is at least one 9-letter word. No words starting with a capital are allowed, no plurals ending in s unless the word is also a verb, e.g. he fires the gun. Both 9-letter words are pleasant on the nose.
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Craft Corner Rainbow Leaf Prints with Markers You will need • Paper or card • Mixture of coloured markers • Leaves or flowers
Method 1. Ask the activity & lifestyle coordinator to gather a mixture of flowers or leaves from the village grounds or grab some on the next walk. 2. Using the coloured markers colour in the underside of the leaves with a mixture of colours or design. Make sure to cover the leaf or flowers with a good amount of colour pigment. 3. Once you are happy with the coverage of coloured marker on the leaf/flower, firmly press the flower/leaf coloured side down on to the paper or card. 4. Please and hold the flower/leaf in place for 30 seconds. 5. Remove the leaf/flower to show the print left on the paper/card. Repeat and create a lovely piece of art with multi or single leaf design.
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QUICK CROSSWORD Across: 1. Sanitise, 7. Beach, 8. Visualise, 9. Now, 10. Yarn, 11. Banana, 13. Salt-and-pepper, 15. Borrow, 16. King, 18. Cue, 20. Etiquette, 21. Swear, 22. Children. Down: 1. Savvy, 2. Nostril, 3. Team, 4. Spit and polish, 5. Sauna, 6. Chowder, 7. Belated, 12. Farrier, 13. Sarcasm, 14. Pointer, 15. Beret, 17. Green, 19. Full.
GIANT CROSSWORD Across: 1. Pickled, 5. Abbot, 8. Vibrant, 12. Wore, 13. Aorta, Quiz: 1. Hobart, 2 The Easybeats, 3, Rio de Janeiro, 4. Puccini, 15. Cloying, 17. Nerve, 19. Dud, 20. End, 21. Niche, 22. Sediment, 23. Agitate, 25. Hot-headed, 28. Settle, 31. Coati, 35. Aria, 5. Horse, 6. Barbara, 7. Peru, 8. Stephen Fry. 36. Taper, 37. Cooper, 39. Cocky, 40. Vowel, 43. Darling, 45. Gee, TARGETword9 46. Age, 47. En route, 49. Roots, 52. Drive, 53. Shoo-in, 54. Bland, 1. acre afar agar anger arcane area arena arrange carafe care 55. Cane, 57. Abyss, 60. Entrée, 64. Hindrance, 66. Piquant, carer carnage crag crane earn farce fare fear fern FRAGRANCE 68. Donation, 69. Moped, 72. Oil, 73. Hag, 75. Adieu, 76. Emotion, franc garner gear grace gran nacre narc near race racer raga 78. Alone, 79. Nose, 80. Husband, 81. State, 82. Entreat. rage rang range ranger rare rear reran Down: 1. Piazza, 2. Cord, 3. Load, 4. Decree, 5. Agonise, 6. Own, 7. Together, 8. Vendetta, 9. Barn, 10. Alec, 11. Toreador, 14. Tut2. ante anted ardent atone atoned dart darted date dated dent DEODORANT donate donated dotard dote doted doter drat neat tut, 16. Inert, 18. Visa, 22. Sty, 24. Goo, 26. Enter, 27. Duplicity, note noted oaten onto orate orated ornate rant ranted rate rated 29. Tyro, 30. Lane, 31. Cache, 32. Ascertain, 33. Icy, 34. Dodge, D rent rodent root rooted rota rote tare tarnG taro tearAtend tenor 38. Ever, 41. Who, 42. Lash, 43. Decoy, 44. Guess, 48. Under, tern toad toed tone toned toner tore torn tornado trade traded 50. Oven, 51. Tsar, 52. DNA, 54. Behemoth, 55. Confound, I E tread trend trod trodden 56. Needless, 58. Brutal, 59. Sun, 61. Tango, 62. Entwine, 63. Din, 65. Deed, 66. Pounce, 67. Threat, 70. Pass, 71. Diva, 73. Haft, 74. Gore, 77. Met. SPOT the DIFFERENCE
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