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 [...]
This morning Vicky brought baby Sienna to see us. We enjoyed cuddles. Vicky likes to [...]
This afternoon we had a Songbirds session, led by Yo Tozer-Loft. The last session was [...]
We have just had our second week of using our new visiting Nook. The Nook [...]
This morning Vicky handed around some books for us to look at and read together. [...]
Today is Marek’s birthday. Marek is one of our Domestic staff. We celebrated by singing [...]
This afternoon, whilst assisted visits were happening, Helen left a variety of table top activities [...]
This morning we watched some of the Remembrance day service on television and marked the [...]
This morning Helen got out our Jasper and Clio, our “therapy cats” and asked who [...]
This afternoon for Nature Club, Helen collected a variety of autumn leaves from our beautiful [...]
This morning we did an arts and crafts session in the dining room with Vicky. [...]
This afternoon Vicky set up a reminiscence interest table in the dining room, got out [...]
This morning Vicky put on Youtube, a Disney World fireworks display called Happily Ever after, [...]
This morning Vicky showed us how to decorate cup-cakes to look like little bonfires. We [...]
As we are not able to have a bonfire this year, we had a bonfire [...]
This morning Helen went round offering massage and concentrating mostly on those residents who are [...]
This afternoon, Vicky went around with the active mind’s books. She read with us, sang [...]
This morning Vicky went around asking us how we are, and what messages we would [...]
This afternoon we had a Livestream session with motion, the organisation that used to come [...]
This morning Vicky played the Kim game with us, She chose 9 familiar items from [...]
Well we have come to the end of our fist week of using our new [...]
Today was pamper day. We had a visit from our new hairdressers Julie and Joanne. [...]
This afternoon we did some Halloween arts and crafts in the dining room with Vicky. [...]
This morning Vicky put together some Halloween selfie props and made a selfie booth for [...]
This morning Vicky did a session of pin the smile on the pumpkin with us. [...]
This afternoon Vicky set up a cookie decorating activity in the dining room. We didn’t [...]
This morning Vicky did some Halloween themed activities with us in the dining. We played [...]
This afternoon we had a sing-along session with Vicky in the main lounge. We started [...]
This morning we had some dressing up fun with a Halloween twist. Vicky got out [...]
This afternoon Vicky brought in the DVD Hocus Pocus for us to watch. With Halloween [...]
Today whilst watching Faulty towers Vicky went around asking who would like a manicure. The [...]
This afternoon Vicky set up a Halloween arts and crafts project for us. The project [...]
This morning we played quite a few games of Bingo in the dining room. We [...]
This afternoon Vicky got out the fun and games box. We played comet target, frisbee [...]
This morning Vicky brought Jasper and Cleo (our mechanical cats) to see us. We enjoyed [...]
This afternoon Yo-Tozer Loft came to lead our Songbirds session in the gazebo. It will [...]
This morning Vicky played brain games with us. We played the category game, followed by [...]
This afternoon Vicky did some Halloween arts and crafts projects with us. The first one [...]
This morning we celebrated the birthday of Deborah, one of our seniors. We sang happy [...]
Vicky led our in-house church this morning. Our Harvest Festival service was cancelled, so Vicky [...]
It was recently Karen’s birthday but she was on annual leave, so we surprised her [...]
This afternoon we played Bingo with Vicky in the conservatory. We had four games. Susan [...]
This morning every resident had the opportunity to look at their photo albums and photo’s, [...]
This afternoon we chose Young at Heart with Frank Sinatra and Doris Day for Friday [...]
Friday is usually our manicure day and Helen went around asking who would like their [...]
Today is Valerie Loft’s birthday and Yo Tozer Loft came to sing a lovely mix [...]
This afternoon we had a music and sing along session with Vicky. At first everyone [...]
This morning Vicky got out the tilt and turn tablet for us to have a [...]
This morning Vicky brought Baby Sienna to see us. We had cuddles and chats and [...]
Here are a few pictures from week 16 of our gazebo lounge visits. We only [...]
