Celebrating life at Barchester

A delightful morning of baking, creativity, and companionship!  Everyone enjoyed getting involved in preparing delicious sweet treats, from rolling out the pastry and mixing the batter to spreading tasty chocolate spread. The activity brought plenty of smiles, laughter, and opportunities to share enjoyable moments together. 

The wonderful aroma of freshly baked treats made the morning even more special, creating a lovely atmosphere filled with warmth, friendship, and the simple pleasure of baking together.

We have been focusing on the importance of hydration and enjoying a high calorie, nourishing diet where appropriate to support our residents’ health and wellbeing. Residents have enjoyed a variety of tasty smoothies made with fresh fruit, as well as delicious hot chocolates. 

We have also demonstrated how to create autumn-themed hot chocolates, using seasonal flavours such as cinnamon and pumpkin, adding a lovely sensory experience. Residents have enjoyed the opportunity to make their own signature fruit cocktails and also choose their favourite flavours for the hot chocolates! Some of our residents’ even dressed up with witches hat’, in keeping with the theme of the month.   

Strachan house had such a wonderful Saturday listening to some amazing clarinet music! we love musical concerts and always aim to have different musicians sharing their talents with us! 

Thank you so much!      

This might just be our new favourite activity! We started Knit and Natter last week, and we can’t believe how loved it is in such a short space of time! Today residents asked staff to get involved and were teaching us all how to knit!   

We are inviting all knitting lovers to join us every Thursday 3.30pm-5pm. Beginners are welcome too, because we really do have the best teachers! 

Performing Pets visited Park View and brought along a sweet little piglet to meet our residents. Our residents and staff absolutely loved the visit—it brought plenty of smiles all around!     

A big thank you to Vicar Andy Parker for leading a lovely church service for our residents at Park View. We’re grateful for the time, care and warmth you shared with everyone.        

The service gave our residents a meaningful opportunity to come together, reflect and enjoy a special moment of fellowship. 

Bryn Ivor Lodge boasts having eight acres of grounds around its home. I think that's definitely enough space to form a little walking group and have a stroll first thing in the morning, then grab a coffee and a chat in our beautiful Bistro and finish off with a cosy film in our Cinema room before going to lunch.            

Residents are enjoying learning about Black History, Heritage and Culture this month at the home and we were deeply honoured to have Paul West, the very famous and extremely talented saxophonists grace our presence and show case his talents for our residents, we celebrated in style.                 

Avril our in house, fully qualified masseuse, visits once a month to give our wonderful residents a bit of relaxing "me time" and as they wait for a lovely hand massage they can do a little magic painting or complete a jigsaw puzzle in our beautiful cinema room.