Activities at Thistle Hill Care Home

Celebrations have been in full swing at Thistle Hill as one of its residents celebrated her 92 years young. Resident, Betty was joined by staff, relatives, friends and other residents as she celebrated her special day. Betty had a special afternoon enjoying a barbershop band sing for her as part of the day’s celebrations. Betty was overcome with emotion as the 12 strong band of singers performed a special rendition of happy birthday to her

The birthday girl, said: “I’ve had a truly fabulous day, with all my friends at Thistle Hill and I thought the band was wonderful, I feel very lucky to have had such a lovely birthday”

Mandy Scott, General Manager added: “We’re delighted to be celebrating a truly remarkable woman as she reaches this amazing age. Betty is such a popular resident who always has an interesting tale to tell, and we look forward to hearing many more, we are just glad we were able to help her have such a special day”

Residents got creative with colour as they joined together to create an autumn collage for display. As the darker evenings drew in and summer began to fade away, the residents kept the summer cheer going by painting and cutting out beautiful autumn leaves and had a great time getting creative.

Resident Hazel said “I haven’t painted for years and had a lovely time making this collage. We are all feeling very proud of ourselves”

Residents, relatives and colleagues enjoyed an afternoon of smiling and dancing with a live music performance that took place at the home. Popular local vocalist, Terry performed a medley of classic hits including “You’re more than a number” and “You’ll never walk alone” and John Denver’s “Country Road’s”.

Residents joined in with the singing, and clapped along as Terry performed his finale song “We’ll meet again”. The hospitality team at the home also provided a spread of sweet and savoury treats for guests to enjoy during the show.

Staff, residents, relatives and the local community came together at Thistle Hill to enjoy a Summer Fête that was held in the home’s grounds.The fête was officially opened by event organiser, nurse Terri Clarke-Burrows’, who wished all our residents and guests a happy and fun day as the sun shone.

Residents and guests enjoyed a BBQ, tombola stalls, including arts and crafts, tasty baked goods, clothes, jewellery, and there was also live entertainment from Irish dancers and singers; a fancy dress competition that was judged by our very own residents, games such as 'hook-a-duck', 'name the teddy' and many more.

Everyone had a great time!

Residents of Thistle Hill enjoyed a visit from local pre-school children, their neighbors Red Kite Day Nursery, for a morning of story telling. The children from the nursery will be making regular visits to the home and getting to know the residents and making new friends over their shared love of books and activities.

Children from the Nursery will participate in various activities with the residents, who look forward to the next visit. “It’s great to see the residents' faces light up when the children come into the lounge” said Home Manager, Mandy Scott “they got so much out of the visit and continued to talk about it after the children have left”.

We had a lovely evening with Colin the archery man at Thistle Hill on 17th July. Residents were keen to take part in his archery sessions. Colin comes to Thistle Hill once every month, and residents are always keen to see him. We have even started to make this a bit of a game, and we keep everyone's best scores on record to see if they can beat their last performance.