Several members of staff at Ashmead Care Centre took time from their busy schedule to remember those lost during recent times to the Covid 19 virus. Friends and families were thought of, including those left without their loved ones whilst Reflection Day gave everybody the opportunity to have a two-minute silence of thought.

We celebrated Mothers Day with lots of flowers, chocolates and afternoon tea here at Troutbeck.  

We celebrated St Patrick's Day with Irish Cream Liquor, Guinness and lots of Irish music. 

Mary celebrated her 100th birthday, she had a lovely day with a long awaited visit from her sister. 

We love our games activities in the home and we get competitive quick. As well as the usual domino's, bingo and exercise to music we love a game of bowling. We thought this was a great shot of one of our residents just before she got a strike. 

Home baking at our home is such an important part of our activities and our residents love getting involved.  Every week we have a different recipes to try and residents on both floors have a go at making them.  This week our residents in the Blossom unit make biscuits and enjoyed measuring out, mixing and getting a little messy as they put together the mixture which our Cook, Moira then baked for us to enjoy with a cup of tea.  They were delicious.

We have celebrated Mothers/Mams/Mums with lots of conversations, some brought laughter and others tears, but it was so lovely to be able to provoke such good memories of our mums, those special ladies who made our childhood great. This was displayed in the lodge, with quotes from our lovely residents, things such as "I had what I'd call a real Mam" or she always smelt of talc were some of the memories. Other memories were a little more emotional as one of our residents never remembers her own mother, as she passed when she was young, but has so many special memories with her dad.

One of our residents has a journal of her life and we talked about the places she has visited and the experiences she has had. She said that she has had a wonderful and exciting life when she was a young girl. She loved to dress up and enjoyed eating out with friend and traveling.

Last week was St Patrick Day and we here at Highfield enjoyed delicious Irish traditional snacks and stew, accompanied by some traditional Irish music. Everyone had a wonderful day followed by a green themed quiz in afternoon!

Residents at Bowerfield House have been enjoying lots of activities. Some of the residents favourites were flower arranging, pizza making and we celebrated Mother's Day and St Patrick's Day in style with our Irish queen Helena. It was a great week with lots of fun and laughter.