At Hope Green we care about connecting with cultural experiences for fun, positivity, and friendship. We find that there is an acceptance and joy in the diverse cultures of our world and it was a great pleasure to celebrate this festival together with colourful displays, food, music, and creativity.

Drum roll please ... and the winner of the name the famous face and tune is Christine, although it was a pretty close call.

We had Valentine's Celebrations for our lovely couple here in the home, Trevor and Justine, we had special decorations, chocolates and a lovely meal with valentines cake to finish. We also had Roger who came to sing for us, all the residents loved the day!

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. 

This afternoon we celebrated Chopin's Birthday! We listened to some very powerful classical music with Drinks and Nibbles, a great afternoon had by all ! 😊😊

This week in arts and craft the residents continued to produce some great work.  Using a template of a ballerina (to form a silhouette) and blending coloured paint onto canvass they created some wonderful painting which they were extremely proud of.  Attached are come photos during and after the activity.

As part of the St David's Day celebrations we had a concert by Mary Gorniak who visited and played for us some Welsh inspired music on her flute and piccolo.  Everybody in attendance enjoyed the performance very much and had a wonderful afternoon.

World Book Day is coming to Buckingham House and we are getting props ready it. Our theme is Alice in Wonderland and so we are getting our mad hatters, Alice bands and rabbit ears at the ready.

The pancake has a very long history and featured in cookery books as far back as 1439 and in that time that has been very different varieties and styles.  At Kents Hill we had some of those varieties and also lots of different toppings to go on top too.  The people living at the home had a great time trying them all out.