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Nutrition and hydration trolley at Hengist Field Care Home
On Monday 26 February here at Hengist Field Care Home, we decided to create a nutrition and hydration trolley, ahead of Nutrition & Hydration Week next month. It's so important that we are all well hydrated and eat well, but a little of what you fancy does you...
Birthday wishes for Gabby at Hengist Field Care Home
We wished our beautiful, smiley Gabby a huge 'Happy 92nd birthday' here at Hengist Field Care Home on Tuesday 20 February. Gabby thought her birthday cake was wonderful and loved the flashing 'Happy Birthday' on the top of it! We decorated her room with birthday...
Hengist Field Care Home residents take virtual cruise to Egypt
We had a fun-packed week here at Hengist Field Care Home on our visit to Egypt, as part of our virtual Nellsar mini cruise. Our residents took part in Egyptian quizzes, leant lots of Egyptian trivia, ate delicious themed food, and had fun with Egyptian dressing up in...
Valentines Day love songs at Hengist Field Care Home
As part of our Valentine's Day celebrations here at Hengist Field Care Home, Peter Kneebone came in to entertain us. Peter is a favourite with our residents and sang a selection of songs and love ballads, taking requests too! As always, he looked very smart in his...
Hengist Field Care Home residents enjoy Valentines Day celebrations
Love was definitely in the air here at Hengist Field Care Home on Wednesday – it was a Valentine’s Day to remember! As well as all our love hearts and decorations, we had some special couples sharing a romantic meal in our Orangery Lounge, with love songs playing in...
Birthday cake delight for Betty at Hengist Field Care Home
A huge happy 81st birthday to our lovely resident Betty here at Hengist Field Care Home, who celebrated her birthday on Sunday 11 February. Betty requested a Biscoff birthday cake, and how could we refuse?! She was delighted with it and thought it was absolutely...
Love bird creations at Hengist Field Care Home
As we had some lovely bird cages here at Hengist Field Care Home, we decided to decorate them and put some pretty artificial birds inside, ready for Valentine's Day. Our residents really enjoyed doing this and the transformed cages have been displayed in our...
National Pizza Day at Hengist Field Care Home
As it was National Pizza Day on Friday 9 February, our lovely Hengist Field Care Home residents made their own pizzas for their supper. After the pizza dough had risen, they rolled out their bases into a circle and spread them with tomato pureé. They then got to work...
Sherbet Dip dazzles Hengist Field Care Home residents
We shared a brilliant afternoon with drag performer Sherbet Dip (aka Harry!) here at Hengist Field Care Home on Monday 5 February. Sherbet Dip sang a wonderful selection of songs from Amy Winehouse, Shirley Bassey and Frank Sinatra to Abba, Dolly Parton and more! What...
Sensory and creative activities at Hengist Field Care Home
Having a wide range of interesting sensory activities and arts and crafts opportunities here at Hengist Field Care Home is important for our residents. We have a fantastic selection of sensory items on offer which stimulate and engage our ladies and gents and bring a...
Hengist Field Care Home residents create colourful Chinese Dragon
As Chinese New Year is fast approaching, we decided to make our own Chinese Dragon decoration here at Hengist Field Care Home last week, as 2024 is the Year of the Dragon. Everyone got involved – cutting the tissue paper, drawing and cutting out parts of the body and...
Celebrating feathered friends at Hengist Field Care Home
On Monday 22 January we made some bird feeders here at Hengist Field Care Home, in preparation for The RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch – the largest garden wildlife survey in the UK which has been running every year since 1979. We used empty toilet rolls and covered them...