‘Keep them coming’: Care home residents get shook up at cocktail-making session

Care home residents enjoyed a taste of the exotic as they took part in a cocktail-making session.Care assistant and former professional cocktail waitress Elisa Andrade delighted King’s Lynn Care Home residents with her professional cocktail-making skills, dishing out Pina Coladas, Gin Fizz, and Pimm’s drinks.She mixed and shook up the cocktails from behind the ready-made bar at the home on Kettlewell Lane before handing them out for residents to try.

Then it was the residents’ turn. Barbara (Babs) Thornton-Lane, 86, had a go at making the cocktails, commenting on how nice they smelt and how cold the shaker was.Betty Scully, 96, also said how much she enjoyed them: “I loved the Pina Colada, such a lovely treat on a warm day – keep them coming.”Residents then voted for their favourite – and the clear winner was the Pina Colada.

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Human Interest Kings Lynn Molly Nicholas