by Kirstie Newell | Dec 23, 2024 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Baking
One afternoon last week, we made our own mince pies (with a bit of help from our Chefs!) here at Abbotsleigh Care Home. We rolled out our dough, spooned in the filling and cut out shapes for the tops, before they were popped in the oven for baking. It was such a fun...
by Kirstie Newell | Dec 23, 2024 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Special Events
We all had a brilliant time at our Christmas party here at Abbotsleigh Care Home last week. The brilliant Ricky sang for us, in a fabulous festive waistcoat and tie. We all put on our festive headbands and ties too, and danced the afternoon away! Our Chefs put on a...
by Kirstie Newell | Dec 18, 2024 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Outings & Trips
This week a group of our Abbotsleigh Care Home residents went on a little adventure to Millbrook Garden Centre together. The centre always has such lovely Christmas displays, and we like to have a good look around at all the festive decorations and of course, have a...
by Kirstie Newell | Dec 11, 2024 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Music and Entertainment
Music with Rob T We’re in full festive swing here at Abbotsleigh Care Home, and we enjoyed a fabulous musical morning with Rob T recently, singing great tunes from the 50s and 60s. We helped him along with our own instruments and sang along to the well known...
by Kirstie Newell | Dec 11, 2024 | Abbotsleigh Care Home, Local community
We’ve been making our own Christmas cards this week with our residents at Abbotsleigh Care Home, and were delighted to learn that our local Early Learning Steps Preschool also had the same idea! The children came and delivered them to our residents which was...