Activities at Mount Tryon Care Home

Here at Mount Tryon, we created our own truffles in honour of National Truffle Day.

Using a microwave recipe that worked really well, we created dark chocolate and cherry, white chocolate and strawberry, and milk chocolate and caramel. Next, we formed our truffles and covered them with pink sprinkles for our white chocolate truffles and chocolate sprinkles for our dark chocolate truffles.

After that, we packaged them so that we could donate some to the neighbourhood and later give more to the Torquay Fire Station when they come to see us on National Firefighters Day 

We were very satisfied with our results.

On this National Firefighters Day, we at Mount Tryon would want to sincerely thank all firefighters for everything that they do.

One of our residents, who worked as a firefighter for a living working his way up to a Divisional Commander, had a very special day because of our local Torquay Fire Station. He was ecstatic to see a fire engine again and to get a tour of the modern equipment on board. He even wore his own cap for the occasion and was thrilled to sit in the fire engine's cab.

The opportunity to see the fire engine and the fantastic crew of firefighters with us today thrilled the remaining residents just as much.

We presented them with our homemade truffles with pride.

At Mount Tryon, we had the amazing opportunity to hatch our own seven baby chicks this week, which was an amazing experience.

One of our residents was especially happy about the experience because she owned The Brown Egg Farmer farm, which she owned for ten thousand hens. The farm is still in operation today and has been for 67years, she passed it on to her son and grandson. We were fortunate to have two black chicks with a cute yellow patch on their heads hatch out of our seven chicks. She had never held a black chick before, as she always had brown Hens for brown Eggs

Cuddles with our chicks have been enjoyable for all of our residents, and they will continue until Friday, when they will be returned and placed in excellent homes.

It was a wonderful experience, but we shall miss them for sure.

Since this is the Masters Golf Tournament, we competed well here at Mount Tryon.

Almost everyone tried their hand at hitting a hole in one during our fantastic time, and several of them succeeded.

We will continue to schedule this activity because everyone had a great time and it was a topic of conversation for the remainder of the day

We would like to say a huge thank you to Lady Captain Laura at Torquay Golf club, for loaning us their putters, they bought us so much fun.

We began with indoor horticulture, where our seeds took off and grew so successfully that we had to upgrade to larger seed cells.

Next, we turned our attention outside, where we needed to make some much-needed preparations before planting our future plants.

We are happy to report that a few of our crops: cucumbers, tomatoes, beetroot, spinach, leeks, sprouts, and spring onions, are in the growing stage. Despite the fact that we still have a lot of work ahead of us, we are excited to watch our crops flourish.

For all of our mothers, Mother's Day at Mount Tryon held great significance.

Everyone enjoyed a delicious lunch prepared to perfection by our Deputy Chef Jo, Our Residents were joined by there Sons and Daughters which made their day extra special

Jo baked a gorgeous cakes as well for our afternoon tea.