We love hearing stories from yesteryear at Willowdene Care Home on Lizards Lane, Sedgefield and VE Day proved to be an amazing day for that.  

Meet our fabulous resident Ivy who is 105 years old.  She was 30 years old and married to Tom who was a solider when the first VE Day was celebrated and she recalls they had a big party and singing and dancing in the streets.  The atmosphere was magical and everyone baked lovely cakes, pies and treats and shared everything with their neighbours.

Willowdene Care Home on Lizard Lane in Sedgefield was delighted to receive a special delivery from the students and staff at Trimdon Community College.  Our residents were delighted and thoroughly enjoyed the cake and biscuits with their afternoon cuppa.  

Thank you so much for thinking of us and you must come in to visit us when able.

We were delighted to receive such a lovely bunch of flowers from Pinpoint one of our agency’s with the attached note. Such a  lovely thought at this time and we wanted to say thank you to you for all of your help, support and staff when we have needed you.

Thank you.

We were delighted to receive these fabulous gift bags from Clarins during their week of celebrating the NHS and Care Homes. The staff were truly delighted to receive this from you and a huge thank you for thinking of us at Astor Court and Lodge on Lamb Street, Cramlington.

May has been another month of community generosity and Earsdon Grange received some gorgeous cakes and cookies from Bakes by KH based in Whitley Bay. We can certainly say they tasted delicious and went down well with a cup of tea. Thank you so much.

We also received some lovely gifts from J&B Recycling who came by to drop off a selection of goodies.  Such a wonderful surprise and we are very grateful you took the time to pop by with these.

Thank you to you all. 

We couldn't wait for VE Day at Garden  Hill Care Home, We had a garden party inside the home with cakes and tea and bunting and had a sing along in the coffee shop.

A community initiative has seen young people in Slough helping to keep up the spirits of residents in care homes across the town, including here at Windmill Care Centre.

Several of our residents have become surprise new pen pals including our lovely resident Dorothy Laing who is really enjoying receiving these letters.

“They have been wondering how life is with me at my age”, she said and is really impressed with their questions. “I can see that they are all very clever girls and we have been enjoying exchanging news about our lives”.

Today in craft club we painted some porcelain gnomes.We had great fun and the residents were really enthusiastic and loved joining in with this activity. When all the gnomes are completed we are going to display them in our gardens as part of our summer garden project. 

The residents decided that for their sensory tasting session this month that they would like to taste some cocktails. The cocktails were: 

Plum and pink grapefruit gin, passionfruit and coconut gin, cosmo cocktail and passionfruit martini. 

We recently had a lovely visit from Thea at Song Box to sing to us from the garden. Thea sent in the below message to the home.