Lois’s 92nd birthday
Today is Lois’s birthday. We are having a joint party tomorrow to celebrate Lois, Wendy [...]
Jun
Szilvia’s 50th birthday
Today we celebrated Szilvia turning 50. When it is a special birthday the staff have [...]
Jun
Sandra’s birthday
We celebrated Sandra’s birthday today, by singing happy birthday to her and presenting her with [...]
Jun
Week 2 of Gazebo lounge visits
We’ve had some fantastic Gazebo visits again this week! We’ve had song times going on, [...]
Jun
Snapchat fun with Vicky
This afternoon Vicky came around with her phone and we had fun together on Snapchat. [...]
Jun
Queen’s birthday
Today it is the queen’s birthday. Vicky put on BBC one for us to watch [...]
Jun
Manicures
This afternoon Whilst Wizard of oz was on the television, I went around asking who [...]
Jun
Nature Club
This morning in nature club, we made sun catchers. Vicky walked around the care home [...]
Jun
Sing along session
This morning we had a cheery singing session led by Olga and Helen, starting with [...]
Jun
Alphabet game and proverbs
This afternoon we had a good session of the alphabet game with everyone thinking of [...]
Jun
Gazebo visits
Well, our first week of gazebo visits have gone successfully I would say! Lots of [...]
Jun
Song and dance
This morning Vicky put on the new Lost Chord Video entries on YouTube and we [...]
Jun
Singing in the rain
Peter kindly lent us his copy of Singing in the rain, so we put that [...]
Jun
Model icing
This morning Vicky got out some sugar paste icing. The original idea was to make [...]
Jun
A Gift For You
You have all been so generous with gifts for the Home, with a little assistance [...]
Jun
First Reunion on Mary’s birthday
After 12 long weeks with little contact, there was tears of joy today and Julie [...]
Jun
Birthday party
This afternoon we had a birthday party to celebrate the birthdays of Margaret S, who [...]
Jun
Arts and crafts
This morning we experimented with decorating recycled shampoo bottles with ribbon, glue and tape to [...]
Jun
Lost Chord video fun
This afternoon we had some fun watching some of the Lost Chord entertainers that usually [...]
Jun
Word games
This morning we got the Scrabble and other word games out and people had fun [...]
Jun
Gardening group
This afternoon Helen brought in the seeds that some of the residents planted a few [...]
Jun
Pampering
This morning Helen asked residents if they would like a bit of pampering in the [...]
Jun
Margaret’s 82nd birthday
Today is Margaret Sounder’s birthday. Vicky went down and sang happy birthday and 21 today [...]
Jun
Brain games
This afternoon we played brain games with Vicky in the main lounge and dining room. [...]
Jun
Communications
Just a few ways that you have been communicating and blessing your loved ones during [...]
Jun
Reading together
This morning Vicky went around with the reminiscence books and spent some one to one [...]
Jun
Individual choice
This afternoon Helen got a variety of tabletop activities and games out and residents chose [...]
May
Arts and crafts
This afternoon Vicky set up an arts and crafts activity in the dining room. We [...]
May
Snapchat session 2
Whilst out in the garden, Vicky had another round with the Snapchat. We had lots [...]
May
Fun and fresh air in the garden
This afternoon we sat out in the garden for some fresh air, fun and exercise. [...]
May
Manicures
Today Vicky came around and offered us manicures. This included hand and nail cleansing, clipping, [...]
May
Category game
This afternoon we played the Category game with Vicky, where we had to think of [...]
May
Sing along
Helen decided that everyone needed livening up a bit, so we got the song sheets [...]
May
Garden time or watching Morecambe and Wise
This afternoon Helen asked who would like to come in the garden to help with [...]
May
Snapchat fun
This morning Vicky went around and introduces some of our residents to Snapchap, and had [...]
May
Spending time in the garden
As the weather was so lovely, Helen asked residents if they would like to spend [...]
May
Hymns, prayers and sharing.
Helen gathered those that wanted to, around the dining room table for a Sunday hymns, [...]
May
Jenny’s Birthday party
This afternoon we had Russ Elliot come and sing for us, to help us to [...]
May
Pampering
This morning Vicky came around with the pampering trolley and offered face cleansing, perfume, hair [...]
May
Manicures
Today Vicky went around asking who would like a manicure. The options were hand washing, [...]
May
Karaoke sing along
This afternoon Deborah put the karaoke on and we had a mixture of sixties and [...]
May
Fresh air in the garden
It was a beautiful morning so Helen asked who would like to sit in the [...]
May
Aqua painting
This morning Vicky got out the Aqua Paint mats and set them up with water [...]
May
Sewing
This morning Vicky got out some squares of Aida fabric, wool and plastic sewing needles. [...]
May
Doll Therapy
This morning Vicky brought baby Sienna to see us. We enjoyed having cuddles, reminiscing about [...]
May
Music and percussion session
This afternoon Helen got the bag of percussion out and everyone who wanted to chose [...]
May
Proverbs and the alphabet game
Helen got some memory games out this morning and we started with the proverb game [...]
May
Decorating cupcakes
This afternoon Vicky got out the cupcakes that we baked yesterday, so that we could [...]
May
Lost Chord
We sometimes have a visit from the musicians from the Lost Chord charity but as [...]
May
Residents choice
This afternoon we had an unstructured afternoon called Residents Choice. Some of us went for [...]
May
Signing Birthday cards
This morning Vicky came around encouraging us to sign Jenny’s birthday card. If we couldn’t [...]
May
Friday film afternoon
This afternoon Helen put the original version of Black Beauty on and this seemed to [...]
May
Manicures and hand massage
This morning Helen went round offering manicures to residents and used this as an opportunity [...]
May
Books sharing
This morning Vicky got out the Dementia friendly books and handed them around. Some residents [...]
May
Fun and games in the main lounge
This afternoon Vicky got out the “Trolley of fun” and put on some jolly Irish [...]
May
Memory games
This morning Vicky played the category game and finish the proverbs game with us in [...]
May
Photo sharing, reminiscing and dancing
Helen asked residents if they would like to share some of their photographs with other [...]
May
Letter writing
Residents have received so many nice cards and letters from family and friends so this [...]
May
One to ones
This morning Helen spent some quality time with those residents who were in their rooms [...]
May
Painting
This afternoon Helen got out the simple painting, where residents just need to paint the [...]
May
Chair exercise, balloons and dancing
This morning Helen led some chair exercise in the lounge. We started with some quiet [...]
May
Hymns, prayers and sharing
This morning, Helen asked residents if they would like be part of the hymns, prayers [...]
May
Toss the teabag
This afternoon Vicky made a game of toss the tea bags in the dining room. [...]
May
Karaoke
This morning Vicky got out the karaoke machine. Everyone was sleepy so we had some [...]
May
75th anniversary V.E Day celebrations
This afternoon Annie helped us to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of V.E Day by singing [...]
May
Lunch in the garden
Because it was V.E Day and the weather was beautiful we had the option of [...]
May
Pin the cigar on Winston Churchill
Vicky made a game for us to play. It was a spin on pin the [...]
May
Photo booth
Vicky made a union jack photo booth and went round taking photos of those who [...]
May
Pampering
This morning Vicky went around offering, make overs, perfume and jewellery. Some residents declined, some [...]
May
Dominoes
This afternoon Debra played dominoes in the dining room. Olga, Mary and Pam played the [...]
May
Manicures
This afternoon Vicky went round offering manicures, including hand and nail cleansing, clipping, filing, painting [...]
May
Thank you, Matthew Laurie!
This morning Matthew Laurie (Roy’s son) kindly came and played his Ukulele and Penny whistle [...]
May
Thank you to Westfield School children and Rachel Dixon!
We were sent a wonderful package from Rachel Dixon that the children of Westfield school [...]
May
Gardening group
This afternoon, those residents who wanted to helped to plant seeds that have been donated [...]
May
Ball and hoop games
This morning we got the table tennis out as well as an array of ball [...]
May
Book sharing
This afternoon we got the lovely picture books out to share but most people preferred [...]
May
Memory games
This morning Helen played the ever popular alphabet game with residents and a lot of [...]
May
Piano session
This after Margaret and Mildred had a tinkle on the piano. Margaret and Vicky spontaneously [...]
May
Biscuit decorating
This afternoon we decorated biscuits together with icing pens. Vicky is going to bring in [...]
May
Inhouse church service
This morning Vicky lead us in a small church service in the main lounge. Vicky [...]
May
Card making
Rather than buying birthday cards we decided to try making our own using pictures cut [...]
May
Nature session
Today Helen brought in some bits that she has collected such as feathers, cones and [...]
May
Pictures to Share Books
Tracy brought out our library of Pictures to Share books for residents to look at, [...]
May
Farewell Tracy
Today we said goodbye to Tracy, one of our Activities co-ordinators. Tracy has been given [...]
May
Doll therapy
This morning Vicky brought baby Sienna to see us. We enjoyed having cuddles, reminiscing about [...]
Apr
Messages home
This afternoon Vicky went around the care home, explaining that we can’t have any visitors [...]
Apr
Happy Birthday Vicky
We celebrated Vicky’s birthday today with a lemon cake that was lovingly made by Mary, [...]
Apr
Flower Arranging
We had fun doing some flower arranging in the main lounge this morning, as a [...]
Apr