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!

You can't beat a little friendly competitiveness and some of the residents at Hope Green were being very competitive with their crown creations. Choosing jewels of all different colours, shapes and sizes. It was so lovely to see so much concentration on all the faces. A wonderful time together, building friendships, expressing creativity and celebrating Kings and Queens of all ages. A Right Royal Competition! 

It's Hot Hot Hot - the arrival of hot weather at Hope Green brought some lovely surprises of ice lolly deliveries and iced lemonade. Always conscious of keeping hydrated, we were enjoying some refreshing treats together whilst chatting about our favourite types of summer holidays. We even created our own display to celebrate the arrival of the summer sunshine and enjoyed the shade of the garden, watching the birds enjoying their feeding station which we had refilled with plenty of water too. 

More of our residents got involved with our planting to grow the largest dwarf sunflower. Dorothy and Owen enjoyed the day, we were given seeds by Morrisons and thought it would be nice to make it into a competition. The residents have there's in the room to look after so hopefully we will be able to share them when they grow. 

We celebrated the Queen's official birthday, we had a wonderful afternoon. We had some facts about the Queen which the residents loved to read about and some lovely pictures of the Queen. I also had a face mask of the Queen which went down great.