by Kirstie Newell | Mar 19, 2025 | Baking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Cooking Club Another weekend means another Cooking Club here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Our latest challenge? American triple chocolate cookies! We say ‘triple’ chocolate but what we really mean is ‘quadruple’, as we decided to add...
by Kirstie Newell | Feb 19, 2025 | Creative Activities, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Themed decorations With the excitement of Valentine’s Day buzzing around, it was time to make some themed decorations with our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Last Monday, we all cut out coloured love hearts from card and were brainstorming...
by Kirstie Newell | Oct 24, 2024 | Cooking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
As we head into the cosier months here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, we move into more hearty recipes for our weekly Cooking Club, and this weekend was bread and butter pudding – a traditional staple in many a British household. The talk of the table...
by Kirstie Newell | Sep 10, 2024 | Cooking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Our new Cooking Club at The Old Downs Residential Care Home is going very well, and as we started off with savoury treats last time, it was only right to do something sweet for our next session – meringues! We had forty meringue nests to fill for an afternoon tea...
by Kirstie Newell | Aug 28, 2024 | Celebrations, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Last week, we celebrated ‘National Afternoon Tea Week’ at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. We love an afternoon tea here so we couldn’t not! We also enjoy baking, so why not make a treat for the tea? Our residents had a go at filling meringues...
