To celebrate employee appreciation day 2022 our home manager Neil Hooley treated all staff to Krispy Kreme donuts.

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.

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.

What a fantastic turn out for our Drive Through Coffee and Cake, the chef had been very busy making fairy cakes iced with an edible butterfly.  During few weeks we have been out to visit the local businesses, shops and emergency services inviting them to the Drive Through. 
After all the storms in the last few days we were blessed with blue skies.

The people who live at Kents Hill have really been enjoying their cookie decorating session at the home and so have the team that have been supporting them.  There were some really lovely patterns made and of course everyone got to enjoy one with a lovely cup of tea after.