Archive for March 2021
Presents and Donations
We feel very lucky as over the last few weeks and months, we have received lots of lovely presents and kind donations. It makes us feel very grateful to know that friends, family and the local community are thinking of us. Thank you to everyone!
Read MoreGeography Quiz
The Orchard team gathered for a geography quiz. Good knowledge of locations and countries brings appreciation of the uniqueness of places, including traditions, cultures, religions, foods, sports, etc. We love our geography quizzes – they reinforce our interest in the world and it is also lots of fun to learn new things.
Read MoreJoan’s Special Birthday
Our lovely Joan Robins celebrated her 90th birthday! How amazing does she look?Talking of amazing, one of our wonderful cooks, Emma – one of Joan’s granddaughters – made her this absolutely amazing cake! Everyone agreed that Emma is truly talented.
Read MoreThe Brilliant Bake Off
Our talented bakers set to work making muffins for everyone to enjoy. We recently purchased new cooking equipment, especially for our residents to use. The bake off was a great success – to have fresh cakes with afternoon tea was magic.
Read MoreMother’s Day Crafts
Today we have made a head start for Mother’s Day and created some handmade cards. We drew a flower on our cards and, using paint and our finger prints, we created a blossom flower effect. We have also attached photos to the cards for that extra special touch . One resident said “we sometimes forget…
Read MoreArts & Crafts
Residents have been busy making flowers to display in our pop up flower shop! Blooming beautiful!
Read MoreDaffodils & Welsh Cakes
We celebrated St David’s Day in style! We hung our Welsh flag proudly, arranged our daffodils to set up around the home and of course tucked in to some delicious Welsh cakes!
Read MoreSweet Moments Like This
Whilst I sat with John having a coffee and a chat one morning, I asked John, “What would you like to do?” Jon paused for thought. When I was about to give him the choice of activities he might like to do, he replied, “I would like to just sit here and hold your hand!”…
Read MoreSt David’s Day
Today we have celebrated St. David’s day in true Welsh style and baked some Welsh cakes! We put a twist on this traditional treat and used white chocolate instead of raisins, which was a successful experiment – they were gorgeous! We then created some daffodil wreaths to display in our home to commemorate this day!We…
Read MoreSt David’s Day
We celebrated St David’s Day by making daffodils with David and Shirley, and some of the staff joined in and lent a hand. Christine and Judith enjoyed helping to cut out the flowers for the daffodils – the flowers looked very jolly.
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