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Last Monday we welcomed Sway’s Recorder Choir for an afternoon of music. 

Our Residents and some Family members enjoyed their tunes and wondered how many different genres the choir could perform.

A big ‘Thank you’ to Sway Recorder Choir!

At Birchy Hull we had a week were we welcomed September with an early Harvest Festival celebrated in the Church Service with our friends from St Luke’s Church.

We also brought the ‘Outside in’ to many bedridden Residents. Some of them liked to see the autumn colours or to feel the different leaves or inhaled the smell of freshly harvested fruit and vegetables.

It was a great way to remember past times.

The week started with some musical entertainment by the ‘MAC Trio’.

The Accordion tunes were the highlight for our Residents.

They just loved the Irish, Scottish and English folksongs. They were dancing and singing or whistling and dearly enjoyed themselves.

As a little extra show one of the guys performed some magical card tricks, which surprised not just our Residents.

Thank you, ‘MAC Trio’, we truly enjoyed your entertainment!

…. National Baking Week – Part 2

The third day of our baking week was dominated by biscuits.

We made the cake mix together, then the Residents helped to cut the different biscuit shapes.

We had pumpkin, witches, and ghost shapes to choose from. The last step was to decorate them after they came back from the oven – and to eat them, decorated or not!

Cup cakes were on the menu for day four.

We whisked all ingredients together, put the mix into a cup cake tin and waited to get the ready cakes a little later from the oven.

The Residents liked to decorate them with icing and lots of sprinkles. They were eaten quickly -before lunch time.

A very big ‘Thank you’ goes to our Head Chef “Samantha” who prepared everything and supported the Leisure and Lifestyle Team soooo much.

It’s great to have you here.

And Birchy Hill celebrates “National Baking Week” in style

There was one baking activity on every four days this week.

On Monday we made lovely crusty cheddar cheese and onion bread, which was quickly eaten by our Residents.

The smell reminded some on baking bread for their families or when they were children and had this smell in the house when they arrived back from school.

On Tuesday, we made doughnuts!

After hitting the yeast dough, we formed little balls which had to be deep fried in the kitchen.

They were ready for afternoon tea and everybody enjoyed the yummy taste of doughnuts made by ourselves.