Our residents keep cool in the heatwave having fun making and eating that quintessential British pudding, summer pudding. The recipe is: 300g raspberry, plus a few extra to serve 225g blackberry, plus a few extra to serve 100g redcurrant, plus a few extra to serve 400g strawberry, hulled and quartered 140g golden caster sugar, plus […]
Sarah Neale from Bath City Farm said about our recent visit: “It was lovely to welcome the ladies from Bridgemead on Wednesday. It’s so rewarding to share the farm’s beauty, and my love of chickens, with others, and to watch how much pleasure simple things like smoothing the silky feathers or admiring the beady-eyed looks […]
Thank you to Anne Allen at Wellow Trekking Centre for bringing her Shetland Pony, Little Bee, to visit us – much petted by all! Anne said: ” It was great to see everyone’s reaction to Little Bee. The residents liked her and she brought back some good memories of New Forest ponies, and breeding horses […]
Five residents went out to Bath Soft Cheese Company in Kelston on Thursday 10th May. Grateful thanks to Hugh Padfield and Ellie Watts who organised the visit and made a huge effort to arrange access for us when disabled access is difficult. Sheila, Julie, Edward, Christine and James enjoyed the artisan cheese tasting, the ripening […]
Kelvin Thomas, MBE, aged 98 was in fine voice at Bridgemead Christmas Concert, performed by the Silver Ring choir on Monday 11th December. Mr Thomas who founded the Choir in 1951, said jokingly “I’m not going strong, but I’m still going…” as he sang ‘Trade Winds’, ‘The Little Road to Bethlehem’ and a solo in […]
” The Fayre raised £762.95 – an excellent result!” says Una McCullough the organiser of Bridgemead Christmas Fayre on Saturday 2nd December. She says: “It was a happy afternoon with a number of new faces there. I spoke to Philip, the vicar of St Stephen’s Church who was there with his two children. He had […]
All welcome to Bridgemead Christmas Fayre on Saturday 2nd December at 2.30pm. We have stalls offering: Craft items of purses, jewellery wraps, peg bags, Christmas table runners, hand painted silk scarves Phoenix cards Homemade cakes Book stall Christmas tombola A hamper raffle General raffle £1 stall Delicious refreshments This festive event will take place at […]
Some Bridgemead residents went to visit Widcombe Acorns Pre-School on Wednesday 18th October. Dena Moore, the nursery manager says: “What a wonderful time we had meeting some of your residents yesterday, the children have talked of nothing else, and I have had such lovely e-mails from some of the parents this morning saying that their children […]
Murder Mystery Evening, organised by Friends of Bridgemead will take place on Friday 27 October at 7pm at the ‘Longs Arms’, South Wraxall. Tickets are available from Rosemary at Bridgemead reception at £25 for a delicious three course meal and entertainment where the plot thickens…. Many thanks to Rob and Liz for hosting.
Lauren from Golden Toes got everybody moving with a tropical themed seated dance class this week. Everyone had a go at the samba, flamenco and hula dance and Bridgemead was dancing! Lauren said “Everyone performed beautifully and it was a great pleasure to dance with and for everyone.”