A Friday afternoon was well spent decorating and sampling cupcakes. The chef very kindly, at short notice, whipped up a batch of scrummy cupcakes for our residents to decorate using fondant, icing, vanilla butter cream and chocolate icing as well as a variety of sprinkles. They looked and tasted amazing. 

We have so many seeds now and can't wait to get sowing these flowers and vegetables over the next few weeks. We have been enjoying the sunshine over the past few weeks and hope this continues throughout summer. 

Congratulations to Amber Court - May Regional Carnival competition category winner for the most creative event. Home Manager, Delma Dela Cruz, said staff and residents had a wonderful day and we are thrilled to have won a lovely sweet and biscuits hamper. Residents and staff and looking forward to tucking into the hamper. 

Today we played volleyball and other exercise games. The residents enjoyed joining in with the different exercises, Gwen and Dorothy joined in and had refreshments to finish the day. 

Eileen worked hard all weekend colouring and prepping the European flags for Euro 2021, ready for them to be displayed. The residents think they look great and they are a good talking point with everyone. We looked at the countries and their culture on the internet and how different some of them are to ours. Everyone agreed it was an interesting and fun activity. 

For Nutrition and Hydration Week we made fruit kebabs with a few added extras. These went down really well with both residents and staff being both refreshing and a little naughty with the drizzle of chocolate and marshmallow. 

Jean is one of our new residents, she celebrated her 93rd birthday last week. She was thrilled with the cake and we all sang Happy Birthday to her. 

Today at Manorhey we celebrated National Cupcake Day by making our very own cupcakes. We baked them in the morning and then enjoyed them in the afternoon with a cup of tea once we had decorated them. We can definitely say they went down a treat.

We couldn't believe the transformation of Our Albert the Veg Man. We are really grateful to our Administrator Kirsty's mum for the work she's put in to transform him. I'm sure everyone agrees that he looks fantastic, I know we all do, he now has pride of place in our garden next to the Strawberry patch. 

HRH Queen's Birthday celebrations were well underway at Hope Green with a keen interest in Trooping The Colour. We loved the marching, the music and the whole display, which prompted us to look at past Royal celebrations. As we enjoy a good singalong we got our Union Jack flags to wave whilst we sang the National Anthem and other favourites which included Land Of Hope and Glory. There was a lot of fun and laughter too as some residents made their own crowns to wear for the celebrations, choosing their own jewels very carefully for such a special event. They looked great!