Sadly we have taken our lovely Christmas trees and decorations down, one of our first activities this year was to make Kings cake. The King Cake tradition was believed to of originated in France and brought to New Orleans in 1870. It is eaten on the 6th of January in honour of Ephiany, or Twelfth Night, which historically marks the arrival of the Three Wise Kings in Bethlehem who delivered gifts for baby Jesus.

Muffin the rabbit has come to live with us at The Westbourne. The residents have enjoyed handling Muffin and they also enjoy watching her hop around the lounge.

Our brilliant chefs made some delicious Shortbread Biscuits with fruit today for us all the enjoy with a nice cuppa.

We had some amazing entertainment here at Troutbeck for the Christmas season, music has been so beneficial since the onset of Covid and promotes overall health and wellness while eliciting positive memories and reactions.

On Monday morning our residents had an art class. Everyone enjoyed showing their master pieces to each other. 

This is Buddy our new resident at The Westbourne. He has been living with us for a few weeks now. He enjoys singing and flapping his wings.

On this day our Kitchen Chef prepared a delicious Chicken Curry for our lunch today. One of the residents requested for another plate of it. It was very nice to have a rice meal like this once in a while. Thank you, Joey (Chef)

We all enjoyed eating Gluten-Free Oats Flap Jacks made by our very own kitchen chef. It was served with chocolates dip, colourful sprinkles and marsh mallows. Some other residents had time to decorate their own flap jack before eating it. It was fun and healthy day for everyone.

Annette, Barbara, Louvain and I was in charge of writing our Christmas cards which were delivered to our neighbours throughout the festive period. Community spirit is very important to us and this is one way our residents wanted to show support. Christmas is such a beautiful time of year when everyone comes together and even though we may not know all our neighbours we wanted to make sure they knew we are thinking of them.

As our home is set over three floors we had three beautiful trees to decorate over the festive period. Our residents selected a different colour theme for each floor and we picked the best decorations to fit and each tree had a hand made decoration on made by our residents and staff. Our trees were decorated by our residents and we made sure that it was how they would want it to be in their own home, obviously there were some tricky decorations for the top of the trees but these were put on safely by our carers.