We have placed Remembrance crosses around the gardens at Oaklands, in quiet reflection for those we have lost. We also think of all who are still with us, who have served.

November's challenge was to enhance our dining experience in the home. We sat down with our residents and asked them about some of their most favourite dining experiences over the years and one theme which came out a few times was weddings our residents had attended.

We thought this would be a brilliant idea for our residents to attend a wonderful wedding breakfast at Oaklands.

It’s beginning to look like Christmas at Willowbank Care Home and we were delighted when Santa’s helpers came in to the home to entertain our residents.

Our residents are loving our new fish tank which was kindly donated by Alyson Thompson’s husband and were delighted when our new fish arrived at the home.

We celebrated Diwali at the home in November and our wonderful cook Kuljit made us homemade samosa’s to enjoy with our meal.  The residents thoroughly enjoyed the food and the history of Diwali.

Today was NAPA Parfait day. Parfait is a type of food that is eaten as a dessert. Parfaits are typically made of several layers of a few basic ingredients, like yogurt, fruit, and granola. We chose apple and yogurt with a biscuit crunch for our Parfait.

We had as much fun creating them as we did eating them.

We enjoyed our Oomph get fit class cricket style in November, we turned the lounge into our very own cricket pitch. We had our very own batters, fielding team and bowlers. Thanks to NAPA we had a very good cricket quiz. All good fun, here at the Moors care centre!

The staff at The Moors Care Centre brought bits from home, their husbands medals and army boots to create a Remembrance display for visitors and residents to the home.

The dementia bus came to Minster Grange in November, staff relatives and visiting professionals enjoyed the experience. The feedback has been phenomenal and we are currently working on how we can implement new learnings into our home.

Christmas is coming to Minster Grange. Our residents and staff are so excited to be getting into the festive spirit. We have trees on each unit at the home and the residents have enjoyed helping to put them up in the lounges.