A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Lace Hill Manor's Head Chef Amanda Healey who was awarded Winner of the Maria Mallaband's 'Hug on a Plate' competition. Alison Frew our Group Head of Hospitality for Maria Mallaband commented-" Amanda produced 10 outstanding desserts – all of which were to a fantastic standard, showing creativity with good presentation and portion sizes.

What a fantastic day we had at the Buckingham County Fair Show on Thursday 1st September.

We recently went on a lovely trip to Greendale Farm, looked at all animals, did some shopping in the farm shop and finished off with a well earned cream tea. All had a lovely afternoon.

We made some fruit pizza using melon for the base and fruit and white chocolate for the toppings. All had lots of fun making them and found them very refreshing to eat in the heat.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed our summer party which had a country hoedown theme. The residents and their families had a lovely day. There was a dog show, games, live music and lots of food and drink including a hog roast.

Residents spent the morning making lavender bags today. They stripped the lavender off the plant then filled the lavender bags that had been previously sewn.  They loved the smell of lavender, and it reminded them of days they used to spend in their gardens and green houses.  The residents were so engaged with the activity and there was lots of reminiscing, chatting and smiles. One of our ladies even enjoyed using the sewing machine again!

Everyone got involved to celebrate ‘National Bow Tie Day’ at Gateford Hill, dressing up with bow-ties of all different shapes and sizes and making bow-tie shaped biscuits for everyone to enjoy with their afternoon tea. 

During the hot weather we like to think of creative ways to keep the people that live with us cool so we made a smoothie station this was enjoyed by all 

People living with us picked out an animal that they wanted to paint, each animal had pieces that needed to be painted separately.  Once the paint was dry , we then had to fix them together to make up our animals.  We got quite messy but we did not mind as the Owls, Swans, Birds, Ducks and Peacocks that were made were amazing.
 

We were delighted to receive our Just Bowl kit to the home and everyone was so excited to get involved.  There were so great scores and we are looking forward to trying to beat them next time.