We are pleased to announce that Minister Tim Edworthy will be holding church services in our home on the 1st Sunday of each month starting in September. He will be joined by friends of the community and provides our residents the opportunity to attend service in their own home, which will hold hymns, prayers and refreshments. Thank you to Tim and his wonderful Team and we look forward to seeing you next weekend

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 

Over the past few Mondays we have created a Reminiscence café.  The people living with us can come enjoy refreshments and snacks and talk about a specific topic. This weeks topic was beach days and the experiences that we had. We spoke about days at the beach that we remembered with our families. One of the ladies that lives with us her daughter joined us for the session which was lovely to hear her memories too.