Howgate are making staff champions in categories each morning, this includes; Chart champion, Hydration Champion and Communication Champion to name a few, these are being delegated during each handover to empower the staff.

It was National Carrot Cake Day earlier this month and Doreen and I attempted our own home baked carrot cake. We had a look at a few recipes and finally settled with Paul Hollywood's carrot cake. We learnt a few lessons from this bake off today, one being our icing which unfortunately didn't turn out like we hoped it would, we used a shop brand cream cheese instead of Philadelphia which didn't create a smooth cream cheese frosting like it would normally do. Other than this hiccup our cake turned out rather tasty and we will be revisiting this recipe again for The Belvedere Baking Club.

All the staff and residents came up for a birthday surprise for our very own Home Manager, Delma Dela Cruz. We made beautiful paper flowers that show her name and decorated the room with lots of balloons. We kept this as a secret to her and surprised her on her very special day. Staff, residents and relatives of our residents are all thankful for all the things she is doing to everyone and the leadership she is up for Amber Court. She deserves all the best and happiness in life. Again, Happy Birthday Delma! Have a wonderful day ahead! Love, your Amber Court Family.

Bowerfield House had a fur friend called Nigel visit. Our lovely Admin was kind enough to bring in her dog to visit us here at Bowerfield House. All the residents loved Nigel and we had lots of smiles and laughter, it brightened our day.

Animal assisted interventions can often improve self-esteem and confidence in people with dementia, it can also promote quality of life and encourage independence, there are many positives using animal therapy and we hope Nigel visits us again here at Bowerfield House.

At River View we did things in duplicate today as its certainly a day to remember - 22.2.22 and its Twosday!

2 colleagues, 2 napkins, 2 pens, 2 wishes and 2 prayers.

Make a wish and mark this day!

Since qualifying as Oomph Exercise instructors in October, our Lifestyle team have been busy delivering two sessions a week for those who live here to take part in and keep active. Covering a variety of different themes, there’s a lot to cover, but we are desperate to share and celebrate the enthusiasm of those who live here, so we thought we’d introduce our “Oomph Diaries”. In these segments, we will share some of the highlights from the sessions, the different themes, and some testimonials from those who live here and take part.

Since we received our OMI Vista Mobii at the beginning of December, we have spent a lot of time investigating and exploring the different capabilities and activities on offer.

Bowerfield House often enjoys a fresh homemade loaf of bread. We are lucky to have a bread maker and the smell while its baking is great for a sensory day.

We all enjoyed a slice when it was baked with a bit of butter on it, if we had to pick a negative it would be it takes 3 hours and 30 mins to complete! But we do enjoy the smell it makes while baking, it is certainly worth the wait.

Celebrating love at Buckingham House with cookies, advice and singing.

Bowerfield House had a fantastic day celebrating Valentines day, we had a singer Sam come into the home, every one enjoyed themselves and sang a long to the love songs.

We had a Valentines raffle and our lovely nurse, Albinah, won the beautiful valentines basket raffle full of goodies!

We sent a balloon with hugs and a kiss to those in heaven who we love and miss - we are sharing this balloon in loving memory of our family, friends and loved ones who have passed away and we will never forget.