Last week our Hospitality Services Manager, Phil, brushed off the cobwebs to support our amazing catering team with Baking delicious cakes for our Residents.

Everyone living with us at Brunel has been busy making Christmas card designs and festive jars in preparation for the Christmas fete. We will be show casing residents work throughout the year for families and friends to enjoy.

Back in late October you may have seen pictures of some of our residents making Christmas cakes and each week we have been feeding them brandy in the traditional fashion, in preparation for them to be iced. Everyone worked really hard creating some beautiful designs ready for the final judging of the Brunel House Christmas Cake competition.

Competition was tough and after some lengthy deliberations by our judging panel, it was Waverly Suite who were crowned competition winners with Calendonia Suite as a very close runner up.

The 1st December meant only one thing......tree dressing!

We sang and danced to festive tunes and we even had a little count down before doing the light switch on.

It’s not just Christmas decorations coming to the home. We’ve also had some work done in the Yohden Lodge Dementia unit. Our new Titanic themed dining room for our residents.  They love it and so do we.

We had a lovely day in Yohden for elf day. We had a tombola, and the residents were excited to win prizes. We had sing along and watched the movie elf.  We raised £155 for Alzheimer from the home.

Thank you to our lovely staff & amazing families for the donations and home manager Hayley & deputy manager Kelly for putting up our 7th tree in the Lodge as well as staff and residents for creating our beautiful tree in Reception.

We had a lovely day at Willowdene for Elf Day. The staff got dressed up to surprise the residents and created such a giggle with their costumes.  We enjoyed some lovely cup cakes and tea brought to us by our team of elves before they headed off into the winter night back to the North Pole (or at least homes in the Northeast).

We had a lovely morning of home baking and creating our own mince pies to enjoy with a cuppa.  We had many different recipes the residents had used in the past and we thought we’d have a turn at making them all to produce a winner.  We are looking forward to it.

We have enjoyed a couple of home baking sessions in November. We baked a lemon drizzle and a banana bread which we enjoyed with our coffee morning.

This will probably be the last bake before we put cinnamon and ginger in everything as we enter the festive season.  We can’t wait and are so excited for our relatives visiting to take away some of our Christmas bakes.

Our Christmas elves have been creating gorgeous Christmas Wreaths at the home.  Our lifestyle coordinator, Stacey used to be a florist and has been helping the residents create wonderful Christmas gifts for families and friends.  To see the finished product, have a look at our Facebook page.