Activities at The Manor Care Home

A bit of heavy rain on Thursday didn't stop us from packing up our picnic to enjoy a lovely trip on the steam train. Amazing hospitality and help from the volunteers at West Somerset Steam Railway - Bishops Lydeard. 

See you again in a few weeks when we get to see the flying Scotsman. 

We were so lucky to be joined by the MyDays group. 

The weather was so lovely we played connect 4 in the garden. It was a fun and enjoyable morning for us all. Thank you for coming to spend time with us. 

We have some lovely visitors  from The Castle School spend the morning with us and help support our residents with life enrichment. 

They helped with a exercise and skittles session up on Willow as well as getting some wise words from our residents. Thank you for helping us out yesterday.

Molly had been really excited to hear it was National cheese day. She said how she loved trying different cheeses and was really looking forward to having a lovely port and lemon.

We enjoyed a selection of cheeses, fresh bread with lashings of butter and all washed down with a port and lemonade.

We enjoyed doing a cheese quiz and just had a really enjoyable afternoon together.

Residents at Field House enjoyed their visit from Little Acorns Nursery. Residents enjoyed helping the children decorate biscuits which our chef had baked fresh that morning. The children used coloured icing and sprinkles, then the children sang old nursery songs to us all, residents sang along to farmers in the den, Incy Wincy Spider and more. It was a wonderful afternoon for everyone, and we can't wait till next time. 

Our residents have invited the children to lunch next time, and we will host a Sports Day afternoon because most of the children will be off to primary school in September, so we wanted to make our last visit extra special.  

We had an amazing day here at the Manor celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE day. 

Residents, staff and guests of our home spent the morning enjoying music from our talented singer Ian, and he sang for us at our in-house street party where our amazing chefs put on the most incredible buffet.

Making the most of the beautiful weather this week, so we went on our travels to find animals and the sea.

We had a great time feeding the animals at Donniford farm and finished the day off with a trip to Minehead to see the sea and have some refreshing ice-cream. 

We packed up two of our gentlemen, and we had a lovely afternoon out at The Rocking Horse by J & J Catering. This is one of the most beautiful places to go and enjoy a cream tea. The gardens are just spectacular and have lovely views all around. 

We sat in the sunshine and enjoyed the most amazing cream tea where the scones were as big as our heads and could barely move after them. We could also hear the whistle from the steam train as it was doing its rounds back to Bishops Lydeard. 

We had a lovely day celebrating Mother’s Day yesterday. It all started with flowers and chocolates on our breakfast trays. 

In the afternoon, we listened to one of our favourites, Nigel Reader, and had an amazing cream tea to finish the day off.

We have been making the most of this fantastic weather and took a trip to Doniford farm to see some of the adorable animals they have there.

We then took off to Minehead beach to enjoy our picnic and then followed it off with a delicious ice cream at Blue Anchor.

We were not going to let a few April showers stop us from enjoying our good Friday. We fired up our barbecue to have our first off many this year. 

Staff and residents here celebrated Good Friday by tucking into some delicious burgers and hot dogs. Despite the rain, we all had an amazing time.

We started our Easter celebrations with our Prize Bingo night and invited friends and families into our home.  We enjoyed a fantastic evening playing one of our favourite games and winning some fantastic prizes donated by local businesses, families and friends. Our last fundraiser was for the Barchester Foundation. It was a great night - residents sat waiting for a special visitor not knowing who it was going to be! Lilly, the pet lamb, came with her lunch, so residents could join in and feed her. They thought it was fantastic and brought back so many memories for many of them. One lady couldn’t believe her eyes when Lilly the lamb walked into her room. She started telling me the stories of all her pet lambs and how she would sneak them into her bed without her mother knowing. 

We have been busy making our Easter Bonnets ready for our Good Friday parade. With our lucky resident Mary winning a beautiful egg in a cup, she couldn’t believe it when our chef chose her hat for the winning Bonnet. We also decorated our Easter Cake with long conversations about the meaning of 11 marzipan balls and why not 12. Peggy enjoyed telling everyone the story.

Celebrating Easter with fun games, egg decorating then rolling them, first and second prizes awarded. The weather didn’t stop our egg hunt ! Lots of fun and laughter
Easter Sunday, residents enjoyed a quiet morning! Until the visit from the Easter chick. It was so lovely seeing residents laughing and having fun with special treats from us all. With another Easter over and special memories are made, on to the next event to make more Field House memories.

It’s been a very sad day today as one of our favourite furry friends, Bracken, has announced his retirement from pet therapy. 

We will be forever in debt to Bracken for his amazing work and the sheer happiness he has brought to us all here during the last 7 years he has been with us. Winning the Make A Difference Award last year was the icing on the cake so deserved. Enjoy your retirement Bracken. You will be very much missed here.

We had ourselves two amazing trips out recently. One trip we enjoyed a lovely drive along the Somerset levels spotting all the varieties of birds around our amazing countryside.

On the same day, we took another group up to the Quantocks to look at the fantastic scenery. 
It was the most perfect winter's day with the sunshine beaming down on us. We are so lucky to have this all on our doorstep.

Our first launch of our new ladies knit and natter club has been amazing. One of our residents wanted to host and help others with being able to knit and what a morning it was. 

It was so popular we had to carry it over to the afternoon. Its amazing seeing everyone get together and remember what joy it brought to them when they were younger.