Activities at Harton Grange Care Home

Everyone really enjoyed our afternoon with Nicky and Lucy for a wonderful, cosy and entertaining afternoon sing-along. Even a few residents from another Barchester home, Bedewell, attended this session of sing-along.

It was a fabulous afternoon with a special guest: Alex Hall. We enjoyed a range of songs, from present day to the most iconic ones. Everyone sang with Alex, some of us even danced. With this festive afternoon we are a step closer Christmas.

Thanks to Jos Forester-Melville, HenPower Project manager, we had a fantastic art and craft session: we made ceramic brooches with hens on. Even Dennis enjoyed the session and helped to make some shapes from clay. There was an incredible atmosphere with plenty of music and laughs as well. Meg, the ceramist, appreciated the help offered by our guests, Jos, Susan Ratliff, Glenda Cooke, and Phil Hodgson.

It was a cold autumn morning with frost, but we enjoyed a warm atmosphere with plenty of mulled wine, cider, apple crumble cakes, carrot cakes, cherries crumble cakes, muffins, lemon tart, flapjack and even some poppy seeds crumble cakes ...

I was asked if we celebrate something special today: Yes, The spirit of autumn days...

We had a special guest, Rev Deborah from Bede Methodist Minister - Monkton Park. We enjoyed having the Holy  communion service. We learnt that the table of Holy Communion is Christ’s table and everybody was welcomed. We had time to sing a couple of hymns and to pray.

We are very proud that we took part in this year's edition of South Shields Memory Walk organised by Alzheimer's Society. And yes, we reached the finish line after we had time to meditate upon the condition of those who developed dementia.

Noel and Mary very much enjoyed the fantastic atmosphere, seeing so many people dressed in blue walking in the memory of their loved ones.

Noel even managed to walk for a while on the way back, along the shore. As Mary said, we were incredibly lucky as we had beautiful weather during the walk.