Craft Club is a great way for our residents to meet together, catch up on conversations, and get creative. Preparing blue and white bunting in readiness for our Burns Night celebrations and choosing pictures of Scotland which were meaningful to us was so much fun. Memories of Robert Burns poetry and Scottish dancing from school days brought together a lovely display in our conservatory area for everyone to enjoy.

To celebrate National Pie Day the residents enjoyed a delicious homemade apple pie for dessert.

We celebrated "Burns night" in true Scottish Style this week, first we had a traditional burns night supper with both meat and vegetarian haggis accompanied with neeps ,tatties and of course washed down with iron bru. We listened to a poetry recital , completed a quiz and took a look back at the life of Robert Burns .

This ended with a good old Scottish sing a a long and our very own hilarious version of "Donald where's your trousers " We all had great fun and a good old giggle.

Bowerfield House had such a wonderful day celebrating Burns Day. Robert Burns was a famous poet and we printed some of his most famous poems, it was lovely to read them. We decorated our home with the Scottish flag and the tables with lavender with tartan ribbon wrapped around, our table decorations looked great and staff and residents commented on it on how lovely the home looked.

We also had live entertainment on a link up which all residents enjoyed and sang along to the songs .

What a fantastic day! We celebrated National Chocolate Day with no problems, it went down very well with a pot of tea. As Pat says "a moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips but a little bit of something good does us a world of good", we all giggled and tucked in to our yummy chocolate cake.

We had a lovely time taking part in " adopt a bear "day. Our residents each chose a bear, kindly donated to us, we had fun making adoption certificates and choosing funny names.

A wonderful day of celebrations included personalised activity packs, where residents chose to make bunting or colouring thistles and flags and of course our residents were up dancing together, enjoying the vibrancy of Scottish music. Conversations about visits to Edinburgh and also some of the Scottish islands was a joy to be involved in whilst sampling shortbread provided by our chef fresh from the oven. A real celebration of all Scotland has to offer.

Today our hairdresser has been and our lovely residents have enjoyed a pamper in the hair salon. They were all really happy and relaxed during their pamper.

Some of our ladies had fun yesterday afternoon getting messy in our splatter and paint session. Our residents listened to Opera whilst they painted and those who took part thoroughly enjoyed it.

Happy New Year!

Here at Hope Green we spent some time together thinking about any resolutions we would like to make. Residents and staff joined in conversations joined with lots of laughter too as we popped our resolutions into our sparkling jar. We're also going to keep adding to it over the next few days as we continue to discuss our plans for the weeks and months ahead.