Apr

Sow the City

19 Apr

This month we began planting in our raised beds with a selection of vegetables and herbs with the help of Sow the City to kickstart this seasons planting! We began by planting our parsnip’s into the raised beds, Ladislav from ‘Sow the City’ gave us a quick rundown of the do’s and don’ts of planting and we quickly got the hang of it! A huge thank you for Sow the city for joining us to help kickstart growing season at M&J! In the next couple of months we will see our garden flourish.

Mar

Easter Celebrations

27 Mar

Easter Workshop Our residents created some lovely wooden resurrection themed decorations to place around the house for the season. Our residents in the woodworking room helped create all the elements in preparation for the workshop. We began by painting our wooden shapes below. These were displayed around the home over the Easter weekend. Easter Chocolate Nests In celebration of Easter we made some simple but effective chocolate Easter nests to enjoy in this weeks coffee morning. John began by breaking up our mixture of dark and milk chocolate ready for mixing with our syrup and butter mix. Whilst Martin was busy breaking up the shredded wheat, pictured above. After melting down our chocolate and butter mixture martin mixed in our shredded wheat and we began placing it in our cupcake cases to set in the fridge, pictured below. These were enjoyed by residents and staff! Easter Egg Hunt Finishing off our Easter celebrations we had our very own Easter scavenger hunt equipped with riddles placed around the house that our resident’s had to follow to complete the hunt and win a mystery prize! Pictured below, Daniel, Mike and Dennis in our winning positions!

Mar

Oral Health Day

20 Mar

In March we celebrated Oral Health Day 2024 we invited Sue to give a talk to our residents and staff regarding good oral health! Our oral health Champion Jen put together a selection of goody bag for our residents with items donated from the local community! Pictured below the lovely display put together by residents and staff to visualise the sugar content in many of our favourite drinks and snacks! Our catering team put together a selection of low sugar snacks for the occasion including homemade flapjacks and watermelon pizzas which was a lovely way to end our afternoon!

Feb

Carpentry Corner

26 Feb

January & February has been non stop for our residents in the woodwork room and gardens! In January our residents woodchipped our woodland walk, giving it a new lease of life! Gary and Daz sanded down the tables in the art room, which has made an incredible difference for the residents in our art room! In February our residents put the finishing touches to our composting bins, levelling out the base and creating an accessible path. And finally, in the woodwork room our residents began working on some Easter decorations ready for decorating!

Feb

M&J Celebrates Chinese New Year

5 Feb

In February we celebrated Chinese new year, with a selection of games, workshops and activities! We began our celebrations with a paper lantern decorating workshop, our resident had a choice of marbling their lanterns, painting a design or collage. We have an annual chopstick challenge which our residents take very serious. There was great effort from everyone involved but that didn’t stop our reigning champion, Alan, from winning again!

Dec

Christmas at Mary & Joseph House

30 Dec

In the Month of December we held our very Christmas Markets to raise money for Coffee 4 Craig, a local homeless Charity. Friends and families of the residents and staff were invited into the home to celebrate and try to raise as much as possible. In preparation our residents began creating a selection of festive items to sell alongside a tombola of donated items by staff. Our stalls included handmade festive decorations, from our residents, handmade wax melts, Christmas cards and our yearly calendar. M&J annual Christmas Panto This year for our Christmas Panto we chose, the classic, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens! All residents, staff and family and friends were invited into the home to watch our show.

Nov

Remembrance Day

11 Nov

To commemorate this years remembrance day our residents have been working on two different displays for the home. Firstly we worked on an outside poppy display made our of painted pebbles, which our residents all got stuck in to paint a few! For our second display we worked collaboratively on a group painting of a poppy scene out of recycled egg cups from the kitchen! We worked together to place all our stones in a poppy formation before we began our reading to commemorate remembrance day. Alan and Elizabeth both spoke some kind words before we had our minute silence in the garden. A huge thank you to all staff and residents who got involved!

May

The King’s Coronation Afternoon Tea

6 May

In celebration of King Charles’s Coronation we held a patriotic themed Garden party to celebrate, including an afternoon tea style lunch buffet made by our fantastic catering team, Pictured below Vladimir and Cyril proudly showing the amazing selection! The buffet included more traditional afternoon tea items such as pork pies and sandwiches but also savoury croissants and spring rolls! After our lunch we got together to take pictures with King Charles that Alan kindly made in preparation, Pictured below Alan looking the part in his union jack hat and blazer posing with his creation!

Jan

The return of “Big Earl’s” famous Jerk Chicken.

11 Jan

Its a real treat when Earl makes his family favourite; Jerk Chicken, Rice and Peas. Served with a delicious gravy, fresh Yams and a Lime & Cucumber Salsa, we absolutely love it! Thank-you Earl.

Jan

Blackpool Illuminations