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Posts with tag: Older People

Passion = hwyl. Leave they frogs be. Broadmoor alarm Monday 10am. Getting on the same wavelength. Listening to music keeps my husband alive. 7. Chicken roundabout. I cannot stand the sound of a lone piper. My dad took me to my first match at 11 in Norwich. Welsh National Anthem sung by a choir or a crowd Blog posts

Extra Time – for the last time – at Britten Court

Shelly and Candida revisit Britten Court, this time with the Extra Time banner and story box, for a football-inspired chat with the residents. The conversation may have started with football, but by the end we had covered everything from the etiquette for entering a house to the optimum time to attempt a break out from Broadmoor.

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A monotone photograph of a women's football team, circa 1925, with three rows of women in football kit flanked on either side by a man, one in a dark waistcoat and the other with a towel over his shoulder Blog posts

Extra Time performs at the Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft

Candida and poet Dean Parking take the Extra Time Footballing Story Box along to the Memory Cafe at the Seagull Theatre and meet up with champion bowlers, magnum-winning marathon runners and a gold tap dancer.

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Portman Road to the Dell, by way of Broadlands Blog posts

Portman Road to the Dell, by way of Broadlands

The Extra Time Footballing Story box gets put through its paces at not one, not two but three different fixtures – and wins every time.

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Frank's mum knitted socks from scrap wool for welly boots Blog posts

Fish knives, knitted socks – and the sound of children playing

Residents at Harleston House in Lowestoft listen to some Extra Time stories, and share a few of their own.

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Listening to each other and understanding and working towards peace Blog posts

Taking some Extra Time to volunteer

We took along the Extra Time football banner and story boxes to a volunteer event in Halesworth, to explore how it might be used by support staff and carers in the community.

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A school girl in a dark top, her hair swept away from her face, and holding a cardboard football figure in her hands on the table A Trawler Boy looks across the table towards another person Blog posts

Extra Time to Celebrate

Our final celebration session with the children from Kessingland Primary School and residents at Manor Farm Care Home, in which we gallop through the amount and variety of work they’ve created together, and the children receive gold medals for being so completely brilliant.

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Someone embroidering a colourful picture on which are the words lots of shoe makers Blog posts

Limbering up for the final match

The Manor Farm Corncrakes polish off the medals and prep their pictures whilst the children continue to sew their archive drawings whilst telling Dean all about heritage football.

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I think they felt exhausted because all we did was chat. They go out dancing after they win a match Blog posts

A stitch in Extra Time

At Manor Farm, the residents chat about last week’s visit from the children and their thoughts on what they need to flourish in the game of life, whilst over at the school that afternoon, the children discuss the impact of their visit and then begin to stitch their pictures.

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