Our Eggcellent Easter Weekend
We’ve had the BEST Easter ever at Charlotte Straker House! It was a wonderfully busy weekend and lovely to see so many families visiting and different generations enjoying their time together.
We kicked off our “eggcellent” Easter weekend with a delicious fish and chips lunch from The Angel of Corbridge – as ever, the fish was fresh, the batter light and the chips very crispy!
On Easter Saturday, Karen Cadwallader (our office manager) and Nicola Pick (head housekeeper) led a brilliant easter cookery session and made chocolate crispy nests with our residents. Nicola and Karen m
elted the chocolate and helped everyone stir it into the rice crispies and other ingredients – there was quite a lot of chocolate tasting at the same time 😊 Then it was time to decorate the little cakes with cute fluffy chicks, mini eggs and other Easter decorations. But the best bit was when it was time to sample the cakes over a cup of tea or coffee – they were so yummy they didn’t last long! Once the cakes were eaten our residents enjoyed crafting and designing “rainbow eggs” which they took back to their rooms to display. Thank you to Karen and Nicola for organising such a fun and delicious afternoon.
After a traditional Easter lunch on Sunday made by our talented kitchen team, on Easter Monday our senior care assistant Karen dressed up in probably the best costume we’ve seen for years to deliver the residents’ Easter Eggs. Karen not only rocked her easter chick costume but also gave us a rendition of a few Easter songs. We think she deserves an award for making her way to every resident’s room as well as all the communal areas as an inflatable chick – she made sure that everyone received their own easter egg as well as giving them a chance to see her costume (and hear her singing!) Residents Colin and Muriel couldn’t stop laughing and Muriel was amazed when she walked into the dining room and saw Karen doing her chicken dance. Thank you SO much to Karen for being such a good sport and being the best Easter chick we’ve ever seen.
