It was a different type of cooking down at the Parkgate hub. Great fun was had mixing the ingredients for wax melts?

Put simply, wax melts, also known as wax tarts, are flameless alternatives to candles. They usually come in bars that look similar to a chocolate bar and can be broken up into cubes and melted to release the fragrance inside.

After the melts it was fun and games.

And up at Harding hub it was keep fit.

Another episode of the Social Eyes gang travelogue to places to visit in the local area. Today it was Graves Park; a large parkland area in the South of Sheffield, between the districts of Norton, Woodseats and Meadowhead. The park was developed by Alderman J. G. Graves between 1926 and 1936, to protect the thousand year old woodland from building development. Mr Graves donated the 100.362 hectares park to the city.

The park is a mixture of open and woodland, with several streams flowing through it. There are three small lakes bordered by mature trees and to the north-east of the park is the animal farm, home of many rare breeds of cattle, pigs, chickens and donkeys.

Near the Charles Ashmore Road entrance are a practice golf course, two bowling greens and several hard tennis courts, while at the north side of the park (Derbyshire Lane entrance) there is a large open area which has 2 cricket pitches and around 10 football pitches.

Meanwhile back at the Harding hub it was crafts and Matthew’s birthday celebrated in Social Eyes style.

More photos from the last action packed week at the two Social Eyes hubs. At Harding hub it was blindfold tasting followed by fruit salad manufacture; down at Parkgate hub it was more football. More photos from The Banned rehearsals. There was also a trip out in the sun.

What an exciting week for everyone. We will catch up over the weekend, but today’s feature is the return of our rock group to their rehearsal space at Trinity Community Centre in Thorpe Hesley.

Wonderful surroundings, set in the grounds of  Holy Trinity Church, Thorpe Hesley and Scholes; superb acoustics, second CD here we come.

Once inside it was all hands to set up the equipment and start to rock.

Once again the sun shone so it was a trip out. Meanwhile back at the hubs it was music, crafts and painting outdoors at Harding while at the Parkgate hub it was music and movement.

There was fun and laughter in the sensory room.