One of the ladies who lives with us was telling us all about her life working in the fashion sector throughout her youth and how she loved following the trends and seeing what new and innovative pieces were being developed by the big fashion houses. This inspired our Activities Coordinator, Stanley to dig through some Vogue editorial archives to share with her. She was excited to revisit these images and commented on how she noticed these old trends returning in the modern day.

Our regular residents meetings are key dates in the Deepdene calendar where people who live and work at the home get together to discuss important matters.

There are always plenty of refreshments available including drinks, fruit sticks and homemade scones with creams.  The atmosphere is always just lovely.

 

Today the residents took part in a cheese and wine tasting afternoon in the gardens of the home. They learned about the different cheeses from England and France and which cheeses paired well with the white, rose’ and red wines plus port also on hand. The cheeses were rated by the residents too!

We have decorated the lounge ceiling this week with bunting all cut out by one of our residents, the residents painted beach nuts to hang amongst the bunting.  We celebrated a birthday with a cake and our special 'birthday hat'.

We celebrated International Kissing Day by making our very own lip balm. We had a choice of flavours including berry, citrus and cherry and we enjoyed decorating our own individual pots. We tried to guess how long the world's longest kiss lasted, why people kiss the Blarney Stone and we discovered that no two lip impressions are the same.

We have very artistic people living at Riverview such as Fidela who makes some beautiful flower arrangements. She is as beautiful as the flowers with her big smile.

Our activities team have been busy and continue with an full activity and social calendar to keep everyone as busy as they want to be, with pamper days, games to improve co-ordination, ladies and gentleman’s clubs and so much more.

If you have not met our activity team, please do introduce yourself to them on your next visit.

 

The home is decorated with flags and banners and everyone at Riverview is getting excited about the Euros and England reaching the final.  We have so many cultures and nationalities of people living with us but today were are all singing from the same song sheet, mostly Three Lions and Sweet Caroline.

One of our very talented activities team started hairdressing on a Saturday during the lockdown whilst our usual hairdresser was unable to visit. The Saturday Salon proved to be so popular it carried on and continues to be a popular and busy event. 

MMCG recently celebrated its inaugural Carers Appreciation Day. At Riverview we took the opportunity to say a huge thank you to everyone for all of the amazing work that they do on a daily basis.

The celebrations were in full swing across the whole home including sharing a huge homemade cake.

When someone chooses to stay at River View, be it permanently or for respite care, the whole team takes it upon themselves to ensure that they are happy, healthy and settled.

We have a great professional team spirit which is seen and felt by our residents each day.

Ashmead has created a library within its Bluebell Lounge for the residents' full use. The activity team will also utilise the library to host book clubs as well as reading and discussion sessions on a regular basis. The people who live at Ashmead can easily keep abreast of media stories and events occurring in the local area.