What a fantastic day! We celebrated National Chocolate Day with no problems, it went down very well with a pot of tea. As Pat says "a moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips but a little bit of something good does us a world of good", we all giggled and tucked in to our yummy chocolate cake.

A wonderful day of celebrations included personalised activity packs, where residents chose to make bunting or colouring thistles and flags and of course our residents were up dancing together, enjoying the vibrancy of Scottish music. Conversations about visits to Edinburgh and also some of the Scottish islands was a joy to be involved in whilst sampling shortbread provided by our chef fresh from the oven. A real celebration of all Scotland has to offer.

Happy New Year!

Here at Hope Green we spent some time together thinking about any resolutions we would like to make. Residents and staff joined in conversations joined with lots of laughter too as we popped our resolutions into our sparkling jar. We're also going to keep adding to it over the next few days as we continue to discuss our plans for the weeks and months ahead.

We started the year by launching our Gardening Club here in Amber Court, it was participated by our residents and staff. Joan and Jimmy planted tomatoes, lettuce, mint herbs and spring onions. We are all looking forward to harvest these vegetables soon. This is a weekly activity that we get to plant our own vegetables and flowers. It was fun and good for everyone, especially to our residents that likely improve their wellbeing. Great job everyone!

What a way to celebrate Burns Night. One of our lovely members of staff provided traditional Scottish day and night wear for men. Including a sporran, a sgian dubh, shoes and an amazing kilt. The residents loved exploring them. We listened to Bagpipes and we enjoyed some Highland dancing. Mainly giggling at the staff giving it a go!!

Christmas as we know, is the most festive season of the year and this competition allowed us to make it even more festive and special for our residents, getting involved not just our residents, but the staff and the members of our community.

As we celebrate National Cheese Lovers Day, we in Amber Court organised a wine and cheese tasting. Everyone enjoyed tasting the different types of cheese, crackers, dips, nuts, fruits and non-alcoholic wines. We also had fun socialising with each other while some staff is singing karaoke. What a great experience for everyone!

Last week our lovely residents enjoyed a bingo afternoon. We played for prizes/ for a line and then the full house, our residents were really in their element concentrating on the numbers making sure they didn’t miss one.

They then had a film afternoon and chose within the group what film they would like to watch, drinks and snack were served during the film.

We celebrated the arrival of January with a special New Year's Day tipple to toast in 2022. Here are some of the people living with us enjoying a glass of sherry to celebrate. Team Knights Court wishes everyone a happy and peaceful 2022.

Bowerfield House had a lovely day celebrating National Flower Day, we all enjoyed talking about our favourite flowers and we loved how nice the flowers smelt.

We arranged the flowers in a vase and displayed them in the lounge for everyone to enjoy and they brought lots of joy to the residents in different ways.

We had a little bit of fun putting a flower in our hair.