This morning Vicky played finish the proverbs with us, which is Marion’s favourite. We followed [...]
This afternoon Vicky linked us to our friends at Twelve Trees care home, using the [...]
This morning Vicky got out the Active Minds books for us to look at and [...]
Roy’s son Matthew Laurie and granddaughter Shona came to entertain us for Keith’s birthday party. [...]
It was a small but jolly group that wanted to join in with the Sunday [...]
This morning we watched some Lost Chord music videos and a few of us were [...]
This morning the gents enjoyed breakfast together then chose to play a few games of [...]
Today is Keith’s 80th birthday and he really enjoyed opening a mountain of birthday cards [...]
We had a fun afternoon with Zeze from Motion, who led us in fun exercises [...]
Happy New Year from all of the staff and residents at Hallamshire Care Home. This [...]
This afternoon Vicky got out, what we call the Fun box, which is a box [...]
This morning Vicky came around offering manicures. The options were Hand washing, hand sanitising, nail [...]
This afternoon Helen got out our baby doll Sienna who nearly everyone loves to cuddle. [...]
This morning Helen got out the aqua painting, which is very easy but very satisfying [...]
This afternoon Vicky played Bingo with us in the dining room. Some of our regulars [...]
This morning Vicky brought Jasper and Cleo to see us. They are mechanical cats that [...]
This afternoon Vicky put on the Nutcracker ballet in the main lounge for us to [...]
This morning Vicky came around with the pampering trolley. She offered us face masks, cleansing, [...]
We have just had our 7th week of using our visiting Nook. Here are a [...]
This afternoon we had a lovely music session with Matt and his friend Jack. They [...]
This morning Vicky made snow globes with us from empty jam jars. (Thank you Peter [...]
Porter Croft school children sent a Christmas card and letter for each of our residents. [...]
This afternoon we did an assortment of activities, in between visits. We did arts and [...]
Instead of an advent calendar, Vicky bought some little advent gift bags. Vicky put a [...]
We had a really enjoyable day today with everyone having at least one or two [...]
Everyone must be last minute with their Christmas cards this year because we have had [...]
As it was Christmas eve, we had some fun and games with the Reindeer toss [...]
At this time of year, we usually have a trip to see the pantomime in [...]
Today Helen went round and asked if we would like to send a Christmas message [...]
This morning we did the last part of our window frieze, which couldn’t be anything [...]
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This morning Vicky asked who would like to help us decorate tree shaped gingerbread biscuits. [...]
This afternoon we had our Christmas Songbirds session, led by Yo Tozer-Loft. Vicky asked who [...]
This morning Vicky asked who would like to decorate the Christmas cakes that we baked [...]
This afternoon we sat and watched White Christmas and most people enjoyed a Hot Chocolate [...]
This morning we had a small Carol service that the local church was obviously unable [...]
We had a go at making Christmas wreaths this afternoon with some willow wreaths and [...]
This morning we had fun with the giant snowman that Helen made. Helen and some [...]
Sarah and Claire from Razzle Dazzle came to sing for us, this afternoon, for our [...]
Today Vicky went around doing manicures. This included hand washing, sanitizing, nail scraping, trimming, filing, [...]
This afternoon Roy’s son Matt and his friend Jack came to practice their music ready [...]
This morning as part of our Christmas window frieze we made some presents to wrap [...]
The ladies from Bents Green church, including Peggy’s daughter in law Ruth, kindly knitted lots [...]
Yesterday morning Vicky painted a snowman picture onto canvas, so that we could use it [...]
This afternoon Vicky helped us to make and bake some Christmas cake. Those that chose [...]
This morning Vicky played the Kim’s game with us. Vicky chose 8 Christmas objects from [...]
This afternoon we celebrated the birthday of Kirsty, our kitchen Manager. We presented her with [...]
This afternoon, Vicky got out the Christmas picture Bingo for us to play. We had [...]
This afternoon Vicky blew up the Reindeer ring toss game, and went around, asking who [...]
This morning Vicky did a Christmas reminiscence session with us in the dining room. We [...]
We have just had our 5th week of using our visiting Nook. The Nook was [...]
This afternoon we had Nicola come to play the cello for us, and help us [...]
This morning did a cupcake decorating activity with us, in the dining room. John, Jenny, [...]
This afternoon we had another fabulous exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion Exercise via [...]
This morning Helen bought in a giant snowman with a head hole like the old [...]
We decorated the Christmas tree that we made and painted yesterday and today it was [...]
This morning Helen went round offering manicures to residents and at the same time encouraged [...]
This afternoon we did the next part of our big Christmas window frieze. A lot [...]
This morning we finished writing our Christmas cards to family and friends and some of [...]
This morning Vicky asked who would like to help make mince pies. Peggy, Stephen and [...]
This afternoon we had a delivery of Christmas cards from St Marks Church. They kindly [...]
This afternoon we teamed up with Twelve Trees Care Home, via Portal TV. We sang [...]
This morning Vicky played the category game with us. Today we played it with a [...]
Today is John’s birthday and the singer Alan Turner came to help us celebrate, from [...]
This morning there were a lot of sleepy residents so we had a short Sunday [...]
This afternoon Yoyosongshop came to sing for us. They are members of three separate choirs [...]
This morning Helen bought some Christmas cards in and asked who would like to write [...]
This afternoon we had a Motion livestream session with Zeezy. We do this by using [...]
This afternoon Vicky was offering pampering. The options were cleansing, moisturiser, perfume, hair brushing and [...]
This afternoon we started what is going to be part of a big Christmas frieze [...]
This morning Helen took the small Christmas round the main lounge on a trolley and [...]
Today we helped Vicky to decorate the Christmas trees. We put up one in the [...]
We are going into our fifth week of having our visiting nook. It is going [...]
This afternoon we had a very enjoyable Songbirds session led by Yo-Tozer Loft. We sang [...]
Over the next few day, we will be putting up the Christmas decorations around the [...]
We had a brilliant live stream exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion exercise this [...]
Today Helen went round each resident in turn, asking who they would like some pampering [...]
There must be something in the air today because everyone was super sleepy and a [...]
This morning we had a few games of bingo with Helen. We started late because [...]
This morning we had a sing along to brighten everyone up. There were a lot [...]
This afternoon whilst assisted visits were going on, we put on the Carry on Doctor [...]
This morning we had our usual informal Sunday prayers and singing session. There were quite [...]
This afternoon Helen got out the bag of percussion and let people choose what instrument [...]
This morning Helen got out some table top games that people could play from where [...]
We are going into our fourth week of having our visiting nook. It is going [...]
This afternoon we had a Motion session, which was live via the portal TV that [...]
This morning Vicky did manicures. She offered hand and nail cleansing, nail clipping and filing, [...]
Today Vicky became a mobile tattoo artist for the afternoon. Vicky ordered lots of different [...]
This morning Vicky led a Bingo session in the dining room. Not as many people [...]
This afternoon Helen asked each resident in turn what message they would like to send [...]
This morning Helen got out Jasper and Clio, our “therapy cats” and went round asking [...]
We had such a fun morning, playing Hook-a-duck together! Vicky brought the hook-a-duck game around [...]
This afternoon Vicky did two sing-a-long sessions, one in the small lounge, and one in [...]
This morning Vicky did two sessions of memory games. One session in the quiet lounge, [...]
This afternoon whilst Vicky was doing assisted visits, we watched a musical in the main, [...]
This morning Vicky led two in-house church services, One in the main lounge, and one [...]
This afternoon Vicky led a Bingo session in the dining room. We had quite a [...]
This morning Vicky took the trolley around with her and gathered a photo album or [...]
We had our first birthday party, since having the visiting nook. Kevin Kitchen came to [...]
This afternoon whilst Vicky was assisting a visit, we did some sewing, weaving and threading [...]
