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The annual Residents’ BBQ was a great success.

With the wonderful sunshine, lovely guests, yummy food, and cheerful entertainment by MUSK, the Milton Ukulele Strummers Klub. Everybody enjoyed the afternoon to the full.

The very engaging music made everyone tapping or even singing to the well known tunes. Our Residents and their guests were extremely happy and left the party in the late afternoon.

Saturday night everyone went to bed with a big smile on the face.

A very big “Thank you” to MUSK who delivered first class music, and to our Chef Alan who prepared a delicious BBQ .

Birchy Hill’s “Cowboys and Cowgirls” welcomed the Country and Western Singer Danny Stone with a loud “Yee Haw” to start an afternoon full of campfire romance.

Everyone enjoyed the tunes like “I Want to be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart”, “Oh My Darling, Clementine”, or “The Lonesome Rider” – just to name a few songs of Danny’s repertoire. The Residents and their guests were clapping and tapping to the cheerful music.

Historically Western music was directly influenced by the folk music traditions of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and many cowboy songs, sung around campfires in the nineteenth century.

It directly related musically to old English, Scottish, and Irish folk ballads. Western music celebrates the life of the cowboy on the open ranges and prairies of Western North America.

Thank you Danny Stone for taking us to the “Wild Wild West”.

On Wednesday night in New Milton at the Recreation Centre:

Birchy Hill’s Male Care Staff built two teams to play a 5-aside football match.

They all played with great enthusiasm, but also lots of laughter.

12 “winners” left the indoor pitch after 90 minutes of fun.

Management and Female Colleagues are very grateful that nobody got injured.

Well done “Boys”!

Once again Birchy Hill awarded the Highflyer Wings to one staff, who went above and beyond their normal duties.

Zina Silo, Head of Housekeeping, is hardworking and very flexible. She supports the Service and the Management alike; and she has a wonderful sense of humour.

Congratulations Zina from all staff and residents – well done!

 

On Sunday Morning a few Residents from Birchy Hill went on a Boat Trip.

We boarded the M/V “Alison MacGregor” Mk3, a specially built boat providing trips for people with disabilities, including those in wheelchairs.

The boat left Hythe Marina at about 10am and we arrived back on land at 1.30pm. While we had lovely sunshine, our Residents enjoyed the trip with blankets, hot chocolate and biscuits.

We passed many big cruise ships, some boats you can see in the movie “Dunkirk”, super fast ferries, container ships and many more.

Everybody on board had a lovely time, thanks to the friendly and helpful crew from Solent Dolphin, operating the boat.