One of the ladies who lives with us was telling us all about her life working in the fashion sector throughout her youth and how she loved following the trends and seeing what new and innovative pieces were being developed by the big fashion houses. This inspired our Activities Coordinator, Stanley to dig through some Vogue editorial archives to share with her. She was excited to revisit these images and commented on how she noticed these old trends returning in the modern day.

Our regular residents meetings are key dates in the Deepdene calendar where people who live and work at the home get together to discuss important matters.

There are always plenty of refreshments available including drinks, fruit sticks and homemade scones with creams.  The atmosphere is always just lovely.

 

Today the residents took part in a cheese and wine tasting afternoon in the gardens of the home. They learned about the different cheeses from England and France and which cheeses paired well with the white, rose’ and red wines plus port also on hand. The cheeses were rated by the residents too!

We have decorated the lounge ceiling this week with bunting all cut out by one of our residents, the residents painted beach nuts to hang amongst the bunting.  We celebrated a birthday with a cake and our special 'birthday hat'.

Today the residents at Mary chapman court enjoyed some garden time with a parachute. We made it float like a butterfly then we made it a stormy sea. We had great fun and a little exercise too.

We celebrated International Kissing Day by making our very own lip balm. We had a choice of flavours including berry, citrus and cherry and we enjoyed decorating our own individual pots. We tried to guess how long the world's longest kiss lasted, why people kiss the Blarney Stone and we discovered that no two lip impressions are the same.

We have very artistic people living at Riverview such as Fidela who makes some beautiful flower arrangements. She is as beautiful as the flowers with her big smile.

Our activities team have been busy and continue with an full activity and social calendar to keep everyone as busy as they want to be, with pamper days, games to improve co-ordination, ladies and gentleman’s clubs and so much more.

If you have not met our activity team, please do introduce yourself to them on your next visit.

 

Hope Green garden was filled with music and dancing in the sunshine with a wonderful visit from a talented local accordion player. It was delightful to see everyone getting involved whether that was tapping feet, clapping hands or dancing the waltz. We're really looking forward to his next visit in August.

Strawberries, raspberries and chocolate were chosen by residents at Hope Green as favourites for adding to buttercream and decorate some lovely vanilla cupcakes together. Individual flair and creations were wonderful to see, combined with the arrival of a well earned cup of tea too! Conversations turned to Wimbledon as we appreciated the strawberries and one of our residents told us all about her tennis playing days which was absolutely great. A lovely afternoon.

The home is decorated with flags and banners and everyone at Riverview is getting excited about the Euros and England reaching the final.  We have so many cultures and nationalities of people living with us but today were are all singing from the same song sheet, mostly Three Lions and Sweet Caroline.