Activities at Bushey House Beaumont Care Home

Residents of Bushey House enjoyed a trip to the Bushey Rose Gardens recently on a beautiful warm day. The gardens are a short walk from our home and a place we visit often when the weather is good .

We had a good walk around the gardens and then enjoyed some time in the sun before returning home for drinks in our gardens at Bushey House.

Residents of Bushey House were lucky enough to see some very special visitors: two week old lambs Tom and Jerry. The lambs were brought to visit us by Performing Pets who visit us regularly with different animals. 

Children at local St Hilda's girls school were thrilled to receive prizes from our residents as part of a Barchester Easter bunny colouring competition. It was a difficult job for the judges to choose the two runners up and winner. The winners were presented their tasty prizes of chocolate and other goodies by our two residents Kathy and Kathleen.

Residents and a large number of the local community were privileged to welcome Holocaust survivor, John Fieldsend, to share some of his life story at Bushey House. John and his brother were two of thousands of children rescued from Nazi Europe by the heroic efforts of Sir Nicolas Winton. John's personal account was a moving experience for all present. There were few dry eyes as the Holocaust survivor read out a letter received from his parents shortly before they died in the Nazi gas chambers.

Residents had a fun afternoon celebrating pancake day. With pancakes made by our Head Chef, Avni, each resident created their own design using a selection of fruit chocolate and sauces. To make the afternoon extra special, residents then got to eat their own pancakes with wine, tea and coffee. We also served pancakes to our residents nursed in bed. Everyone agreed it had been good fun made extra special by the lovely spring sun coming into the dining room.