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Birchy Hill picked up an old tradition that their residents remember from their childhood – ‘A Penny for the Guy’.

This tradition was where children fill old clothes with straw to make an effigy of Guy Fawkes and wheel the Guy around for days leading up to Bonfire Night on 5th November.

The effigy would go up in flames on top of the bonfire. “Penny for the Guy” is the idea that children in Britain collect money to buy fireworks for Guy Fawkes night.

Many of the residents remembered how it was when they were children wheeling their own Guy through the streets. It started a lot of conversations at Birchy Hill.

By the way, the ‘pennies’ we collected was not used to buy fireworks, we will donate it to the Charity ‘Children in Need’.

Peter was enjoying Aqua Paint.

The pictures he ‘created’ were lovely.

He was very proud being able to have these results.

Great work, Peter!

This year’s Christmas Spectacular started on Saturday with a performance by the Lymington Town Band.

A very big audience listened to the first Christmas carols and well-known winter tunes were played by 12 members of the friendly brass band.

Our Chef Sam prepared a very indulging High Tea, and everybody tucked in.

A very big ‘Thank you’ to the Band, our kitchen team and everybody else helping to make this afternoon such an enjoyable time.

The Residents at Birchy Hill have their own way to stay physically fit.

Shelley from “Vitality Care” helps them with all sorts of funny games and music, encouraging everybody to move around, in their seats or up and about.

This time ‘bubbles’ were a great attraction.

Thank you, Shelly, for this lovely afternoon.

Jabin James, Care Coordinator, celebrated 10 years working at Birchy Hill.

He is a trained nurse in his country and started at Birchy Hill as a Senior Carer 10 years ago.

Jabin was very surprised and was not expecting us to think about his anniversary.

Congratulations from the Management and the staff at Birchy Hill, well done Jabin!

Also Congratulations from Angel Care PLC / MNS PLC