A carer has been supplying a much welcomed sweet treat to residents at a care home.

Amateur beekeeper Louise Parry delighted residents at Pendine Park’s Hillbury House care home in Wrexham by providing them with a chance to sample the delicious honey from her hives.

The dedicated care practitioner brought in some jars to share with them and delivered a fascinating talk on beekeeping.

One resident who was overjoyed to listen to Louise’s beekeeping tales was Peter Hodder.

He said: “I’m especially interested because I recall that when I was younger, my uncle was a beekeeper. It’s truly fascinating how the bees work so hard to produce such a health-giving substance.”

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Louise has been beekeeping for about five years. It was her husband Carl Rawlinson who first became interested in starting an apiary at their home in Rhosnesni near Wrexham.

She said: “I was not at all keen when he first mentioned it but he went on a course to learn the necessary skills and when he got started I soon became more interested.

“Now I’m as fascinated as he is about how the honey bees develop and produce such a sweet sticky concoction. It is so much more delicious than any kind of shop-bought honey, a different kind of product entirely to the industrial mass distributed commercial honey.

“When I brought in the honeycomb to Hillbury people were eagerly sticking spoons in to see what it tasted like and they were completely amazed.”

Louise has worked at Hillbury and its sister home Gwern Alyn for about eight years. She loves her job caring for elderly people requiring residential, nursing and dementia care, as well as those in need of respite or day care.

She said: “The residents have such great life stories to tell and we get to know their characters. It is a lovely environment here, and the home is surrounded by beautiful grounds blooming with flowers most of the year. But being a carer can be quite demanding, it’s a full-on job, we’re all busy as bees ourselves, so it’s nice to have interests to go home to and de-stress."

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