One of our favourite and most popular events here at Abingdon Court is our cookery sessions!

We load our trolley with all of our ingredients, along with our trusty portable oven and gather to collectively create a selection of cakes.

This week we chose to make carrot cupcakes. Everybody received a copy of the recipe, which we worked thorough as a team to create a batch of delicious goodies.

The traditional annual Pancake Race at Brunel House, enjoyed by everyone!

To celebrate St David’s Day we spent a very busy morning making Welsh Cakes/Cacennau Gri.

Whilst we mixed and rolled the cake mix, we enjoyed listening to some of our favourite Welsh artists; Tom Jones, Bryn Terfel and The 3 Welsh Tenors.

And yes, they were delicious.

Some of the people living with us here at Brunel recently enjoyed a fun day in the company of 10 year old Ophelia, the daughter of one of our team members.

They played board games, musical games, did some arts and crafts and even had time for a spot of gardening.

Ophelia had a fantastic day and is very much looking forward to returning – we look forward to seeing her again soon.

We had a lovely morning writing letters to our fellow Care Homes. Jane, Joan, George, Doreen and I really enjoyed this activity, we were slow to start but once we started we ended up writing a lot about us and we hope other residents will enjoy reading it and we are all looking forward to hearing back from the other Care Homes.

To celebrate National Pizza Day we made Pizzas for our evening meal from scratch. We made our pizza dough before lunch allowing it time to rest, we had talked about toppings with our residents ands whilst the pizza was resting we prepared our toppings and pizza sauce. When our Pizza base was ready to use we assembled our four pizzas and they were sent to the kitchen to bake. Our residents enjoyed it with their evening meal and have already asked when we can do it again.

Twiddle muffs can be a great way to provide a simple sensory activity. The different textures allow restless hands to explore and seek stimulation and comfort.

We had so much fun making our own favourite pancakes last week. The residents enjoyed eating their delicious creations. They talked about it over lunch which tempted a few more residents to make one of their own for pudding.

At Hope Green we care about connecting with cultural experiences for fun, positivity, and friendship. We find that there is an acceptance and joy in the diverse cultures of our world and it was a great pleasure to celebrate this festival together with colourful displays, food, music, and creativity.

Bowerfield House had a great last month, we had a coffee and music morning - latte and coffee on the go- cake, crisps and some marshmallow biscuits which all went down a treat.

We all enjoyed a music quiz and sang along to the music on the karaoke machine. We also had a go on some of the instruments, it was a fun morning with lots of laughter which is a great sound to hear.

Bowerfield House also made some dinner plate mats for LGBT awareness month and the residents loved the colourful rainbow, we also made our own rainbow bunting.