We had 25 members today which also included 2 new members Fiona and Grace from Bury, Lancashire. It was also a pleasure to meet their dog ‘Teddy’ a beautiful cocker poodle. Lisa started as usual with the 2pm Karaoke session and then at 2.30pm it was time for meet and chat. Lisa introduced our new members and everyone made them feel very welcome. It was a lovely surprise to Lisa to see a "Well Done" banner held up. This was relating to our charity’s recently winning Charity of the Year in Barnet. Lisa gave a couple of updates and mentioned that Mike Rich from Barnet Carers will be attending the carers group session on Tuesday and also mentioned that Ian James one of our previous music entertainers who left is now coming back and will be starting next Tuesday. Members were very pleased to hear this.

It was now time for Katie Paine to start the music entertainment and Lisa informed Katie that there were 2 birthdays. Our new members Grace had a birthday on the 29th January and is 82 years of age and it will be Sotiris’s birthday tomorrow. Katie made sure that Happy Birthday best wishes were sung to both of them and everyone joined in to sing too. Katie also had her niece Ava today and it was lovely to meet Ava. We now have 2 little girls of similar age called Ava at the session. Everyone was very pleased to meet Katie’s niece Ava. Katie’s music theme today was to ‘Guess the Year’ of all the songs she was going to sing. Katie asked all the members at the end individually what year in the 1950’s they thought it was. The correct answer was 1956. Members enjoyed that bit of guessing at the end which was fun.

Eon was then ready to start his chair exercise to music which is always a great success as everyone really looks forward to it. Lisa then finished the session with calling out the Bingo numbers and today’s winner was Karin.