We can’t get enough of Boonies Pet Therapy. Twice a month different animals come to join us and visit the wonderful people who live here at River View. This always sparks wonderful reminiscing stories. Having grown up with horses this lady just had to spring out of her chair to hug and kiss Kevin the Pony. She had the best smile from ear to ear all day.

As we have an adverse weather warning the heat is getting to many of us, however we remain positive and continue to smile. Keep a thought to the people working in heat.

There are things you can do to help:

1. Keep curtains closed and lights off when possible,

2. Wear a sun hat and sun lotion when out and about,

3. Wet wipes and cold flannels across the back of your neck

4. Keep your fluid intake high!

Top tips for hydrating foods:

1. Cucumber - contains about 96% water

2. Iceberg Lettuce is about 96% water also

Beautiful trip on the union canal in July. It may have been a damp day but it certainly didn’t dampen our spirits.

We had a wonderful trip out to the pub in August and enjoyed sitting outside and having a couple of drinks.

Some of our residents went on a wee impromtu trip to The Milk Barn for ice cream on Sunday 3rd July. It was a lovely day so Aaron and Sam thought it would be good to visit the Barn . The residents loved it, just outside Falkirk set in the countryside The Barn is a great place to visit. Inside there are pictures and information of how they make the Ice Cream and its journey to the counter. As you can see by the smiling faces the trip was a great success

Thorntree residents had a wee cruise on the union canal on Tuesday 19th July. The crew were great made us feel very welcome. Lots of great pictures. We even saw a family of swans. The residents loved it. Out in the fresh air, great company, good day all round. Next time, we are going to give the Falkirk wheel a try.

Memory spinners with Scottish opera in St. Columbus church Glasgow, after 8 weeks of training the show was ready for the performance in front of family and friends. What a show it was .. everything looked amazing and all came together to a standing ovation. Congratulations to all our amazing actors and actress.

Parksprings 3 musketeers, our new project to keep busy and make a difference . The Summer house went up when Covid first started and was purchased with money we raised to replace the old worn out band stand . We have since fund raised and bought nice furniture for inside with plants and lights. We have some link which the maintenance team are going to lay, but the outside was looking a wee bit sad and needed some protection against the weather elements so once we all had a wee chat and the 3 musketeers volunteered to help out . We also have wee Harry and George wanting to lend a hand.

We had an afternoon of pizza making in July.  We chose the base and selected the topping and our wonderful kitchen team cooked them for us.  They were delicious and we had them for tea.

A huge thank you Julie our Community Champion at Tesco Catterick for the wonderful treat for our residents. Julie popped in with ice lollies to cool down our residents on this hot summers day.