Some of those living with us at Buckingham House enjoyed a lovely trip out to a local garden centre in Bourne End recently.

In addition to looking at all of the wonderful flowers and plants on display, we enjoyed a cup of tea and delicious slice of cake in their cafe.

Congratulations to Amita Gurung who has recently completed the Care Practitioner Programme

Amita is looking forward to continuing her career with us at Highfield Care Home and gain further clinical skills. To celebrate Amita’s achievement, she was presented with this lovely hamper from our Training and Development Team.

Well done Amita from all of the staff and residents at Highfield

As July came around, our home was hit with a case of Olympic fever. Eyes glued to the TV’s as we gawp with pride at the fantastic Olympians from all across the globe, as they compete for coveted titles in sports which have provided entertainment and joy for those who live here, for their entire lives.

In the spirit of France and to celebrate Bastille Day, we tried our hand at baking our own French patisserie in the form of Macarons!

As part of our Summer Armchair Travel series, we all boarded Abingdon Airlines to take a tour of France!

We enjoyed some French bread with some classic soft French cheeses, washed down with a gorgeously refreshing French white wine. We enjoyed the sounds of traditional a French accordion as we imagined cruising down the river Seine.

Friday 20th August at Belmont House Care Home we hosted a very special event, Bradlee Whittaker, a health care assistant at Belmont House Braved the Shave for Macmillan cancer support. Special guests, the Mayor and the Mayoress of Harrogate took part in the afternoons entertainments. We don’t have a final figure yet but on the afternoon we had got to over £820, we will announce the final figure soon. A very big well done to Bradlee who provided the highlight of a lovely afternoon for our residents, families and staff.

This afternoon’s activity was pizza tasting. We had a variety of flavours such as chorizo and anchovies, they were very tasty.

At a recent painting session, themed on the changing colours of Autumn , everyone had fun painting trees and some of our group even mixed it up a bit by adding buttons, with spectacular results.

We recently all celebrated the birthday of the lovely Connie, who was so amazed by her cake and was super grateful it brought her to tears. Sometimes it’s the small things that makes peoples day and we all had a fantastic day celebrating.

We celebrated Lillians 100th Birthday on the 13th August, she had family visiting and a lovely party with friends at Troutbeck.