Sibsey W I - Sibsey Scribblings

Dementia Friends

19/10/2017

Last evening Members joined with a few guests to listen to an educational and informative talk on Dementia.
Dementia like the big C is still a taboo subject and is never an easy subject to tackle. However, with the help of our speakers from the Alzheimer's Society we learned about living with Dementia and ways to support both those affected and their carers.
The Alzheimer's Society have launched a Dementia Friends Initiative where they are trying to create dementia-friendly communities and change the way people think, act, and talk about Dementia.
If you want to find out more why not go to their website and check it out and become a Dementia Friend too.

CPR

30/9/2017

September saw two members of the St.John's Ambulance come and give us CPR training as part of the BBC Radio Lincolnshire Campaign.

One of the BBC team collapsed while out running and if it hadn't been for someone stopping and being able to help her she would have died.

So BBC Radio Lincolnshire set out with the help of Lives and the St John's Ambulance to train 10,000 people in LIncolnshire to be able to do CPR.
To date they have trained over 15,000 people in Lincolnshire to perform CPR, which is phenominal.

co-operative

24/7/2017

We took part in the 2017 WI Co-operative class at the Lincoln County Show.
This is our entry
'Blue Hawaii'
by Elvis.

We came joint second.

ready steady cook 2017

30/5/2017

Sibsey Free School invited us back again to participate in their popular Ready, Steady, Cook evening. The theme this year was Healthy Eating and the children did themselves proud with a vast range of delicious foods. We decided to do a picnic this year.

Sadie and her Teddy bear friends got in on the act.

Healthy sausage rolls

Hummous and crudites

Banana & chocolate hazelnut toast

Fruit flapjacks

Pasta salad and tortilla

Goats cheese & caramelised red onion tarts

Coconut & honey flapjacks

Mini fairy cakes

Scott Dalton from BBC Radio Lincolnshire attended the evening talking to the children and watched them learning CPR. BBC Radio Lincolnshire is running a campaign to try and get 10,000+ people in Lincolnshire trained in CPR after a staff member had collapsed in Lincoln and a bystander saved her life by doing CPR.

Scotch Broth from Class 4

50 things to do before you leave Sibsey School

Breakfast Oat biscuits from QEGS Hornacastle

Low fat Blueberry Muffins from QEGS Hornacastle

These are just a few of the culinary delights available and the highlight of the evening was the Ready Steady Cook competition.

twiddle mitts

6/5/2017

A bag full of Twiddle Mitts made their way to the Orthopaedic ward at our local hospital.
This is the second batch we have taken to them. They were very pleased with them. They get many elderly patients on the ward who have dementia or become fretful after surgery after finding themselves in a strange surrounding.
The mitts give them comfort and something to toy with.

RNLI 'Joel and april grunnill' lifeboat

29/4/2017

We have two members of the Skegness RNLI come and give us a talk in March. It was days before they were receiving
their new lifeboat.
Yesterday I had the chance to go and take a look at her.
She just about squeezes into the boathouse and already she has been called out on 3 'shouts'.
I have to say she is beautiful, sitting elegantly on her tractor.
She has the ability of coming ashore herself where her tractor can then load her so she is ready to be relaunched at ease.

Sibsey swans

13/4/2017

A huge well done to four of our amazing members aka 'Sibsey Swans' who took part in the Marie Curie 2017 Swimathon on Sunday at the Geoff Moulder Leisure Pool, Boston and between them they clocked up an amazing 200 lengths/5km.

off the beeton track

13/3/2017

Off the Beeton Track was the talk given by our guest speaker Sadie Hirst.
Sadie is an Artisan baker and with her husband is part of the awarding winning 'Hirst Butchers Shop' in Woodhall Spa. She has a great knowledge of the history of cookery books and provided us a very entertaining evening.

crafty cake

2/3/2017

Just seen this on facebook. It is stunning.

Off the beeton track

2/3/2017

Sadie Hirst is an award winning baker and member of the British Society of Baking. With her Husband Russell they a have a multi award winning butchers shop in Woodhall Spa. She is a keen collector of cookery books and is especially interested in historic local recipes and regional specialities.

Sibsey Sadie is eager to meet her namesake and along with her fellow Members are looking forward to meeting Sadie Hirst at our next meeting on March 8th.