Activities at Moreton Hill Care Home

Happy 100th Birthday Pauline.  Pauline celebrated in style with fellow Moreton Hill residents enjoying a special cake made by Stuart and his team accompanied with prosecco.  In the afternoon Pauline went out for high tea with family at Stonehouse Court Hotel nearby.  

Even more exciting we get to do it all again on Friday as Ham celebrates his 100th Birthday!

A few interesting facts about 1921 which was obviously a good year!  The world was recovering from a pandemic with 27% of the world's population infected with Spanish Flu.  Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland were formed.   For those born in 1921 life expectancy for a woman was 60 and a man 58.  The average UK house price was less than £500 and a pint of milk just over a penny.

Moreton Hill was Barchester's first care home, there are traditions that are still in place today including every resident making a decoration for the Christmas trees around the home. Over the past few weeks residents have been making painted wooden and felt decorations, as well as bobble hats. These beautiful creations were placed on the trees today as residents enjoyed decorating our largest trees whilst enjoying some panettone - it really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....

Darren set to work setting up the outdoor trees and lights, this is no small task, our courtyard lights will look stunning.

Moreton Hill had the pleasure today of welcoming MP for Stroud, Siobhan Baillie, along with her assistant Victoria Newman.  Siobhan Ballie was welcomed to the home by Daney Thomas, General Manager, Xin Zhao, Regional Director and Catherine Crawshaw, Customer Relationship Manager. Siobhan then took the time to answer questions from the residents followed by having afternoon tea with the residents and staff. A broad range of subjects were discussed, including climate change and what is happening locally to work towards carbon neutral and this included Siobhan explaining the vital role of wetlands like Slimbridge for carbon storage. Social care and the new funding policies were top of the agenda. We also chatted about the home and our residents including the fact we will be celebrating two 100th birthdays this month as well as the varied Barchester Life Enrichment programme. Siobhan is the first female MP for Stroud and was elected just before the country went into lockdown. Thank you to both Siobhan and Victoria for their time, we know how much the residents appreciated it.

We thought you would enjoy seeing the four winning entries from the Moreton Hill photography competition.

Over the past week residents and the Moreton Hill team have been voting for our favourite photos from our Gloucestershire photography competition. Thank you so much to everyone who entered, the photos have looked wonderful in reception and become a real talking point. Each photograph was numbered and the votes were counted today and we are delighted to announce and congratulate the winners in each category:

Over 16s Gloucestershire Architecture

Gloucester Docks by Night - Bryan (son-in-law of a resident)

Over 16s Gloucestershire Wildlife and Nature

Kingfisher - Nikki (Moreton Hill Team Member)

Under 16s Gloucestershire wildlife and nature

Greedy Goats - Annabel (daughter of Moreton Hill Team Member)

Under 16s Gloucestershire Architecture

Gloucester Cathedral Skyline - Eve from Wycliffe College

Residents and Vinny gathered to hear the announcement and Daney was delighted to present Nikki with her prize. We will contact the other winners direct and look forward to welcoming you up to Moreton Hill to collect your prizes.

Thank you to Lorna from the activities team for organising the competition and for the lovely idea of the prizes coming from a local Gloucestershire company. Lorna purchased these at Stroud Bookshop

We all agreed how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful county.