This morning Sonia organised a Flowers Day for us. We tried to create some beautiful [...]
This evening Sonia spent some quality time with us individually, which is so important for [...]
This morning Sonia organised a Book Sharing session for us. We all had a great [...]
Mary, Edith, Peggy, Olive and Pam had a happy afternoon doing some lovely jigsaws. The [...]
We had our weekly exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion via the webcam this [...]
This morning, Helen called some Bingo games in the upstairs lounge for whoever wanted to [...]
This afternoon Helen got out some old photographs and gave them to us to look [...]
We had a game of balloon tennis this morning using “ pool noodles” as rackets [...]
This evening Sonia organised for us a session of Arts & Crafts. We enjoyed an [...]
This morning Sonia organised a pampering session for us. While Olive, Susan, Margaret, Janet, John [...]
This afternoon Sonia organised a session of Memory Games for us. Jean, Penny and Sue [...]
This morning Sonia got out some lovely books to keep our minds and eyes occupied [...]
This morning we had a short Sunday prayer and sharing session in each lounge. Helen [...]
This afternoon Helen offered massage and concentrated on those of us who may be unable [...]
This morning seven of us chose to join Helen with the Big Garden Birdwatch. We [...]
This afternoon Helen asked who would like to join in with making some Chinese fans [...]
Our weekly exercise session has become part of our routine and most of us really [...]
This evening Sonia organised a session of creating some necklaces out of pasta for the [...]
This morning Sonia organised for us a Bingo session while some of us chose to [...]
This evening we decided we want a bit of pampering and nail cutting. While Mary, [...]
This morning few of us decided to have a go at sewing. Meanwhile the gents [...]
This afternoon some of us chose to play Hook a duck and we really enjoyed [...]
This morning Sonia organised a Flowers day for us. Most of us had great fun [...]
It is Burns night tonight so we had an afternoon of Scottish music and Burns [...]
This morning Helen got out a bag of old mixed items and let us choose [...]
This afternoon we watched a movie together in the main lounge. We enjoyed hot chocolate [...]
This morning Vicky led us in a small church service. One service in the small [...]
This afternoon we had a go at decorating biscuits, using chocolate frosting. Vicky learnt to [...]
This morning Vicky led the residents meeting. We did this in three separate groups, and [...]
It is soon going to be the Big Garden Birdwatch so we decided to make [...]
This morning we had our weekly exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion Exercise, which [...]
This morning Helen got a few games out and asked us if we would like [...]
This morning Helen offered the Aqua painting to us ladies downstairs whilst visits were going [...]
This afternoon, Sonia went round with the “ empathy doll” and asked who would like [...]
We had a gent’s afternoon today in the small lounge. We got quite competitive over [...]
This morning Helen and Sonia organised a Bingo session for us. We had great fun [...]
This afternoon Vicky and Sonia led us in an arts and crafts session. Today’s theme [...]
This morning Vicky and Sonia made a temporary tattoo parlour. We had a look at [...]
This afternoon Vicky came around with the pack of description words. The pack contained words [...]
This morning Vicky got out the Active Minds books, and did some book sharing together. [...]
We had a classic film afternoon, with Pride and Prejudice in the main lounge and [...]
This morning a lot of us were very awake rather than snoozy, so in between [...]
This afternoon some of us chose to have a game of Hook a duck and [...]
This morning Helen came and spent some quality time with many of us individually, which [...]
This afternoon we had Zeze from Motion, leading us in exercise. We did chair exercises [...]
This morning Vicky and Sonia came around offering manicures. The options were Hand washing, nail [...]
This afternoon we played Pin the carrot on the snowman with Vicky, using the canvas [...]
This afternoon Vicky decided to bring the outdoors indoors by bringing in some of the [...]
This morning Vicky helped us to make some chocolate cornflake buns. We mixed together some [...]
This afternoon we did some ornamental pictures to help us celebrate Chinese New Year next [...]
Jasper and Cleo are our therapy cats. Obviously they aren’t real but they purr, miaow [...]
This afternoon we played Bingo in the main lounge with Vicky. We played quite a [...]
This morning Vicky was offering walks around the garden and fresh air. We haven’t gotten [...]
This afternoon Vicky played the finish the provers game with us, which is very popular [...]
This morning, whilst the staff and residents were waiting for their vaccines, Vicky got out [...]
It is Eve’s birthday tomorrow so we had a party for her this afternoon and [...]
Zee Zee put us through our paces this afternoon with our regular Friday exercise session. [...]
This morning after an assisted visit, Helen asked who would like their nails manicured, cut [...]
We had a mixture of games this afternoon. The men had a dominoes tournament and [...]
There were no visits booked in this morning, which meant that there was plenty of [...]
This morning Helen got some old photographs of school days and family holidays out and [...]
This afternoon Vicky did some arts and crafts with us. The next two holidays coming [...]
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 [...]
As it was Christmas eve, we had some fun and games with the Reindeer toss [...]
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, [...]
