Today we had a visit from Chloe's Mobile Farm. Chloe brought along some ponies, donkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, ducks and her dog Nelly.

Everyone really enjoyed the visit, and we even managed to bring one of the ponies into our home to meet our residents who were not able to join us in the garden.

A really wonderful afternoon.

To celebrate science week we finished the week with staff Friday challenge, Mad Scientist Day.

We chose to celebrate St Patricks Day in style with Irish music and

a green layered shamrock cake washed down with one of life's most pleasurable indulgences - Baileys Irish Cream, served as part of an Irish coffee.

Some of our residents enjoyed simply listening to traditional Irish music, whist supping on a beautiful, creamy pint of Guinness.

We all had a little fun on Friday 18th March to celebrate Red Nose Day as some of the people living with us and staff members wore their red noses and bobbers to support the event.

Here's some images from the day.

Last week our residents have been busy enjoying morning exercises where we all gathered for full body exercises, leg and arm stretches and crazy Pom Pom exercises and music therapy.

Our residents have celebrated St Patricks Day, we had Irish music, a party afternoon with karaoke and alcoholic drinks of their choice. Our chef put on a wonderful St Patrick's Day menu, lunch menu was slow cooked Irish lamb stew or steak and Guinness pie, for desert we had Guinness and Irish cream cake the menu. It went down a treat!

Mary Chapman are runners up in the regional Chip Butty competition. A massive well done to the team at Mary Chapman who certainly went the extra mile to produce an outstanding Chip Butty for their region, a true team effort with a massive well done to Chef for presentation and deliciousness. Eileen Ward, regional director, said "the team at Mary Chapman put on a wonderful day for both residents and staff. It’s been a brilliant experience with loads of fun and a really tough competition to judge due to the high standard of entry. Thank you to Mary Chapman for taking part."

Gateford Hill are runners up in the regional Chip Butty competition. A massive well done to the team at Gateford Hill who certainly went the extra mile to produce an outstanding Chip Butty for their region, a true team effort with a massive well done to Chef for presentation and deliciousness. Eileen Ward, regional director, said "the team at Gateford Hill put on a wonderful day for both residents and staff. It’s been a brilliant experience with loads of fun and a really tough competition to judge due to the high standard of entry. Thank you to Gateford Hill for taking part."

A massive well done to the team at Water Royd House who certainly went the extra mile to produce the winning Chip Butty for their region looking into the history of the chip butty. Well done to Chef for presentation and deliciousness, the lifestyle team pulled out all the stops with the Chipper fancy dress. Eileen Ward, regional director, said "Waterroyd House are worthy winners who beat of tough competition from the rest of the region.

We had a lovely day on St. Patrick's Day. We enjoyed Irish Pork Stew followed with apple crumble. We then had an afternoon full of games and exercises. 

Our residents really enjoyed the opportunity to help out a student of Journalism this week. She came to interview staff and residents at The Hawthorns to find out about their experiences in a care home through the pandemic. She is making a video for her course and we will get to watch the finished product.