Activities at Marple Dale Care Home

We had a Lee Newsome back with his ‘The King has Swing’ here at Marple Dale, a packed out crowd sat singing away to some classic tunes. It was a great afternoon getting us in the mood for more upcoming shows!

Gardening club couldn’t happen yesterday morning due to bad weather so we decided to have a little get together and played ‘who am I’. It was a great past time and it ran until lunch time. The residents came up with some funny people and their favourite time was when it was the activities team turn to go.

Last week at Marple Dale, our Activity team and Residents came together for Coffee Morning to celebrate 200 years of Cadbury UK.

Thanks to Cadbury we received a delightful surprise in the mail with a box filled with Dairy Milk bars in classic wrappers designed to reflect on the 200 years celebration!

A special afternoon here at Marple Dale as we had a visit from our Hostess’ Son, Adam, all the way from California who offered to sing for us!

Such a great voice singing blasts from the past for an hour and half! Thankyou for attending Marple Dale Adam and we will see you in July!

Yesterday we wanted to go out on a walk but the weather decided to not allow us too so instead we acted quickly and gathered residents to go out for a late pub lunch! We went to the Hare and Hounds up on Werneth Low where we could see the whole of Manchester! It was a great little trip out organised by our Activity Team. We cannot wait to go out more during the sunny weather coming up soon!

Our very own Maintenance/Keyboard man, Andrew, played us a great show last week with his magnificent Keyboard talent. Reminiscing on old tunes emerged into a successful singalong led by our residents this also included 2 great encores, WOW!

Next up for Andrew, a Cheese and Wine night here at Marple Dale.

A lovely catch up with Lewis in the Activity Room this morning, we talked about the past and trips out that are coming up and what we would like to do next week, we all had a brew together ready for dinner time!

Happy St Georges Day for yesterday from everyone here at Marple Dale, we started off the morning with a walk around the grounds and then we had a fantastic afternoon with a St Georges picture bingo and then finished off with an all-England quiz, it was a great afternoon spent with everyone!

Another Day at Marple Dale and another great performance by Berni Stubbs, nearly an hour and half of classic tunes including some love songs to get through Valentines Week, he hit us with some great mood lighting to get us in the swing, we can’t wait for another performance from him soon!

BINGO! That's what we were all shouting Saturday Afternoon, it was great afternoon and everyone loved bringing back the game that we haven't played in a few weeks. The room was silent with concentration as everyone wanted to win one of our brilliant prizes!

A great exercise session this morning hosted by Beth, using some classic disco tunes we danced to the beat and got our bodies moving and ready for the rest of the day! We had Beth our new instructor come in and run our class. We had a really good session getting moving and grooving together!

Yesterday at Marple Dale we introduced one of our new shows that we will be having here, 'The King Has Swing'. He introduced to use a variety of classic tunes from all different types of eras including ‘My Way’ and ‘Sweet Caroline’, we really enjoyed the afternoon as it was a different experience of entertainers than we usually have but it was a great afternoon. We had a lovely afternoon surrounded by our friends and reminisced on our past and we can’t wait for the future!

We started the week off with Burns night celebrations, we had a lovely time with a Burns Night Quiz, it was a very difficult quiz but we stepped up to the challenge and answered to our best ability. We enjoyed our evening surrounded by our friends, Shortbread and Whiskey which made it an enjoyable night to say the least, we went to bed feeling accomplished that we took on a very difficult quiz!

We had a lovely day here at Marple Dale celebrating John’s 70th Birthday, John absolutely adores the Beatles so we decided to have a Beatles themed party with Music and a Beatles Quiz for John! The room was filled with snacks and drinks especially Guinness which was finished by John. John celebrated with everyone around him with laughter and joy. John opened his presents surrounded by all his friends that came along and he even finished his night off with a Chinese takeaway, Yummy!

Preparation for a visit from Santa has begun!!    The real and big excitement is surrounding our first time entry into the Christmas Cake Competition.   From planning the design, to baking the cake and now finally decorating it, these sessions have generated much interest for the residents.  With a big £100 high street voucher up for grabs as a winner, the residents involved believe enough in themselves and their newly learned skills that Marple Dale may have a chance of submitting a credible entry to this competition.