by Kirstie Newell | Aug 22, 2022 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Our residents here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home made cakes in preparation of our Proms evening on Saturday 13 August. We served a yummy buffet of cheese, wine and cakes, and Brenda enjoyed adding the final touches to our butterfly cakes. Our ladies and...
by Kirstie Newell | Jan 6, 2022 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
On Thursday 23 December, our residents and staff at The Old Downs Residential Care Home joined in for some Christmas carols. Our volunteer Mo played the piano for us and also kindly made a cuddly toy for each of our residents which we displayed on the table next to...
by Kirstie Newell | May 12, 2021 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Shiver mi timbers! On Wednesday 5 May we were taken over by all things ‘Pirate’ here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home! Some of our residents helped to make bunting for our Pirate Day, with coloured card and themed stickers, whilst others had fun...
by Kirstie Newell | Jun 17, 2019 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Who doesn’t love a day at the seaside? We certainly do! So we thought we’d bring the seaside to us last week at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, when he held our very own ‘Seaside Day’ here at our Home. We had so much fun theming our...
by Kirstie Newell | Apr 24, 2019 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
We were delighted to welcome a theatrical production company to The Old Downs Residential Care Home recently. The ladies, who performed a wonderful repertoire of 40s, 50s and 60s music, wore some amazing colourful costumes and got us all flag waving to the songs! Our...
by Kirstie Newell | Feb 20, 2019 | Celebrations, Cooking, Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
We had a very enjoyable Valentine’s Day here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Our residents had fun making strawberries dipped in chocolate. They dipped strawberries half in milk chocolate and finished them off by drizzling white chocolate over them. They...