Doing the things that we love the most. Thank you to Lugar bowling club for helping us support our residents to keep involved. Over seventy years membership between them and a few championship titles. New memories were made and time spent remembering the good old times.

We celebrated a belated Macmillan Coffee morning at the Home in September raising money for this wonderful charity. We held a raffle in the home and raised £61 to this amazing cause and then enjoyed a coffee morning with the residents who enjoyed cupcakes and a little tipple.   A huge thank you to residents and their families and staff for there support.

We celebrated Halloween at Willowdene and had lots of fun dressing up in the home.  Residents and staff dressed up and had a Halloween party.  We were entertained by Sam Naylor who was brilliant and enjoyed lots of sweets and cupcakes during the afternoon and a Halloween buffet for tea on the evening.  A good night was had by all.

We celebrated Alzheimer’s month at the home in September by creating our own dragon flies and lilies.  Our residents created a wonderful display of their work and to remember Alzheimer’s during the month of September.

We got into the Halloween spirit during arts and crafts at the home in October and created our own ghouls. We think we did a really good job of them and the concentration during arts and crafts was intense.   

We had a lovely afternoon being entertained by Mike Wild as Elvis outside of the home in October.  Our residents sat in the reception area of the home and Elvis performed for us in our patio garden.  There was lots of singing and we enjoyed some fresh cream cakes and tea.

We have been making the most of the last of the sunshine in the garden in October and we had ice cream and a visit from the neighbours cat.   Brenda enjoyed the feeling of grass on her feet. Fair well summer, hello to a new season with lots of fun planned.

We celebrated National Mad Hatters Day in October with tea and cakes and made jam tarts the day before Mad Hatters Day. It was also Thomasina's 101st birthday so it was a double celebration at the home on 8th October for us.

The winter days are fast approaching and we haven’t been out in the gardens as much this month but that doesn’t stop us having fun in the home.  We created our own table tennis table in the dining room and challenged each other to a competition.  There were lots of laughter ringing out of the home.

We have received a lovely donation of fiddle muffs hand made by a local lady who kindly made us a variety of these for our home.  Our residents loved them and we were so grateful for the donation.