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What a great day we had on one of the hottest days of the year celebrating national picnic month. Residents enjoyed a picnic party in the garden with games, music, food and refreshments! Fresh strawberries and cream were enjoyed and washed down with a prosecco.

Birch Heath Lodge threw the care home open on Friday with a wonderful outdoors seaside themed BBQ on Friday. Invitations went out to all our friends, families and neighbours.

During this week our lovely residents had a morning of pampering.

They choose their favourite nail polish, some to match their eye colour, others to match the clothing for the rock concert that they are attending.

This week one of our residents celebrated her birthday with a party in the garden.

It was a lovely afternoon in the garden. She delighted herself with one of her favourite treats, the Marshmallow cone.

We had a truly relaxing Sunday morning at Kings Court as some of the ladies living with use enjoyed a hand massage and manicure session.

Last week we welcomed our Thera pet Taffy back into the home. Taffy and his owner Kirsten come weekly to visit Taffy always gets fussed over and always makes everyone smile

Happy Friday1st July indeed. The Kitchen is in full swing. Chef Cecelia is leading out her team today seen preparing cupcakes for this afternoons tea. Chef Juvenal is frying the fish, and kitchen assistants Anjana and Scott are supporting their team.

Congratulations DAMMI. River View is really proud to announce that Dammi has won the 'Hospitality Hero' award in this year’s MMCG Annual Care Awards. She joined the company in 2017 and moved to River View 2019. She has made her presence known to all and strives to continually achieve.

Last Wednesday the people living with us enjoyed a lovely afternoon outside in the sun.  We had a singer called Alan come and sing live for our residents outside in the car park.

The people living with us love being around animals and nature, so we spent an afternoon at Thrift Farm.  Everyone had some quality time walking around the farm and petting all the animals. What a lovely afternoon it was!

In Amber Court we don’t need a gardener. Our Staff and residents take good care of our lovely garden and making sure that it is well groomed. In line with our Gardening Club, we have a weekly activities to plant and maintained our garden as beautiful as much as possible.

Having an American as Lifestyle Coordinator creates lots of interest in American holidays and traditions. Our residents celebrated 4th of July just like true blue Americans. We watched fireworks, had sparklers and enjoyed mocktails.

We had the wonderful Deborah from musical delights visit us last week.

There was a party atmosphere. Lots of dancing, arm waving and clapping along.

For this week’s men’s club we visited our in home sweet shop, resident’s were delighted by the selection and picked out some of their favourite sweets and chocolate bars, choosing extras to take back and share with friends.

The summer sunshine has brought us all a lot of joy this week. Especially on Friday when we spent the morning and afternoon soaking up the rays. It was nice to have families join us for a nice chat with their loved ones whilst drinking a cup of tea.

We had an 80th Birthday to celebrate today at Buckingham House.  It was important to the person living us that they got to spend time and celebrate the day with their loved ones.

The people living with us and team joined St. James’ community for their monthly lunch gathering.  The people living with us really enjoy the opportunity to get out and socialise with other people.  As always the food and service was 5* and was really enjoyed by all.

Our Lifestyle Team had the bespoke training module delivered by a qualified staff member from Just Bowl, the new great project that introduce new ways to move and exercises to those people living with us, whilst also involving the wider team and having much fun !