Last week at Ashfield Court some of the residents were getting very creative ready for Valentine's Day, using a very different technique with Jigsaw pieces to create a heart for our valentines display!

For big garden birdwatch our residents enjoyed arts and craft where we painted a bird house, coloured pictures of birds in and had a selection of bird like activity’s at hand. We listened to some relaxing music during the activity allowing our residents to listen to bird noises and tweets. Our resident enjoyed the activity while looking out the window to see if they could see any birds in the trees, after the bird house was finished we filled it with seeds and hung it on our tree outside.

Bowerfield House enjoyed doing a time capsule, we put in Covid tests PCR and lateral flow tests, a photo of everyone who lives and works at Bowerfield House, and a news paper, we picked 2.2.2022 as this date is a palindrome date , meaning it can be read the same way backwards and forwards.

We had a fabulous crafty morning creating some lanterns for the Lunar New Year. We used shapes and colour to create wonderful patterns on card before magically transforming them into lanterns which look great on display.

Residents at White Rose Lodge have been getting crafty with their caring by decorating bird houses and creating cereal bird feeders which we can put outside in our beautiful garden to help wildlife as part of our MMCG pledge “Feeding the Community”.

We thought it would be ideal to start by feeding our local wildlife during the harsh winter when food is scarcer for them.

New Year new resolutions, both residents and WRL have decided to keep more active in this new year, WRL has created new daily exercise classes which are being trailed and will be a permanent feature from the next month’s activities regime, we do our best to keep our residents motivated and moving, New MIND / BODY and SOUL approach to activities will be a fantastic new highlight of the day.



Congratulations to the first class of 2022

We enjoyed a lovely crafting session making Chinese Lanterns to celebrate the year of the Tiger.  We hung the lanterns up in our rooms and around the dining room where we enjoyed a Chinese banquet for dinner.

We love games day at The Moors and had so much fun with play your card right and bowling lots of fun and laughter was had by all.  We can’t wait to welcome you into the home when COVID allows to have a game of Play Your Cards Right as there are lots of shouts of higher, lower, stick.

Whisky tasting, sea shanty and singing for burns night here at The Moors.  We had a lovely day leading up to the Burns Day supper with haggis, neeps and tatties prepared by our fabulous Chef’s at the home and enjoyed cups of tea and Shortbread biscuits during the day.

An Oaklands resident skilfully crafted a New Year wreath in January to mark the turn of the year. She used fresh greenery from the Oakland’s gardens and some Christmas baubles. The result has been proudly displayed at the entrance to our home, it looks very impressive, and we are sure you will agree.