Activities at Moreton Hill Care Home

Putting up the Christmas tree in our Dining Room is always a special time for residents and staff here at Moreton Hill.  

The splendid high ceiling room which was once an old barn looks fantastic at Christmas time.  

Our Maintenance Team put up all the lights and residents and staff hang the baubles and other decorations on the tree.  

We always have our Christmas Carol Service with Standish Church around the tree and on Christmas Day and throughout the festive season it is a focal point for friends and families to gather together with their loved ones at this important time of year.

Every year it is a tradition at Moreton Hill to make our own Christmas cake.  

We follow a recipe in a Marguerite Patten book that was left to us by a resident, Dorothy, who lived at our home for many years.  

The recipe has never let us down and we are hoping that this year will be no exception. 

 Our residents love doing the mixing and weighing out of the ingredients and then when the cake has been fed for a month or two with sherry we design and decorate the top.  

This year we think the result is especially stunning and so have entered the cake into the Barchester Christmas Cake competition. 

We don’t know if we will win but we do know for sure that the cake will taste absolutely delicious.

We were delighted to welcome the Northeast Production Company to come and perform Puss in Boots for us all this year.  

There were lots of jokes and laughter and audience participation.  

Colin, our Maintenance Manager was roped in to dress up as the Princess. His acting skills were impressive!

Our residents were totally unaware that it was Colin in the costume but it gave everyone the biggest laugh of the show when he took his wig off and everyone recognised him.  

Thank you Northeast Productions for a great performance!

We had a wonderful festive fayre at our home involving residents, staff, friends, families and the local community.

On sale were delicious cakes and fabulous crafts, a Christmas hamper for the raffle and Christmas wreaths made by our residents. There were also stalls run by  folk from our nearby town of Stonehouse selling goodies  to tempt everyone.

From the get go our Reception area was busy with visitors and residents buying gifts and helping out on the stalls.

Everyone had a brilliant day and raised lots of money to go to charities which will be chosen by the residents at their next monthly meeting.

After 23 years of service at our home our Head Gardener Eddie decided that at the age of 80 it was time to hang up his tools, put his feet up and spend time relaxing with his wife and family. 

It just so happened that Eddie’s leaving day fell on Halloween which gave us a good excuse to dress up and give him a spooky send off.  Everyone is really going to miss Eddie as he is so much a part of our family here.  Fortunately for us though, it won’t be the last we see of him as he has volunteered to come back in the Spring and run some gardening activities for us all.

Once a month during term time, we are lucky enough to have a visit from some of the pupils from Cashes Green school.  We pick the children up in our minibus and bring them to Moreton Hill.  They love coming to the home and meeting our residents. 

We always have a few songs chosen by both the residents and the children that we all sing together and then after refreshments we settle down for games of scrabble, dominoes or jigsaw puzzles.  It’s great to see the generations mixing and enjoying the  others company. 

At Christmas we have been invited to the nativity play at the school.  We can’t wait!!