Croft House are looking forward to Christmas and lots of activities in the run up to Christmas day with many arts and crafts sessions to look forward to. Please click on the below newsletter for further details including information on our raffle. 

December Newsletter.pdf

Julie our activities lady has made this fabulous cake as a roast dinner. It's amazing with the detail of the vegetables, roast potatoes and the chicken more than the wow factor. Troutbeck residents loved pouring chocolate gravy over the cake that was in a cake gravy pot, can you believe it! Bake off doesn't even get close to this brilliant cake - well done Julie.

It was wonderful to see the men at The Westbourne so enthusiastic about the fitting of a new kitchen. Conversation about DIY successes over the years and a few disasters too whilst watching the kitchen being fitted and recognising many of the tools in the tool box! Watching men at work was a definite success!

We celebrated Guy Fawkes Night/Bonfire Night with fireworks at River View. 

Alan Moore poem goes as the traditional rhyme " Remember,  Remember, the fifth of November The Gunpowder treason and plot. Should ever be forget." 

The River View staff dressed in Neon to give more colour throughout the day.

Winter brings the festive season and the activities team have a jam-packed winter and seasonal activities calendar coming their way.  

To begin with, the treats trolley had variety of different hot chocolate flavours on offer and as the residents are huge chocolate lovers, they really enjoyed it. 

Biscuit decorating  

The residents love a tasty treat and biscuits are a hit among them all. Kirsty and Mona the activities coordinators decided to encourage residents to decorate their own biscuits.

It is very important for us at Abingdon Court to keep our residents happy and fulfil all their wishes. So the activity team, Kirsty and Mona made a Wishing Tree.  The residents make a wish, write it onto a leaf and hang it on the tree. The residents love the idea and the opportunity for their wishes to come true.  

We were delighted when one of our carer's came into the home and spend some one to one time with us in the hair dressing salon.  We've not been able to have hair dressers into the home but as a qualified hairdresser we were delighted when Pam came in to the home and cut and blow dried our hair.  Even the gentlemen had some pamper time in the hair dressers.

It's an exciting time of year at Howgate House and this year we wanted to do something a little special for the relatives of the home.  We created a lovely backdrop and photographed the residents against it to make Christmas Cards to send out from the home.

We can't wait for you to receive yours this year.

Food is such an important aspect at Belmont House. and our new Head Chef is keen to try out some new dishes.  After holding a meeting with the residents they gave Joe a few suggestions to go with his new menu and this lunch was a firm favourite from the residents.  You can chose to dine with us or have lunch in your room and this is one of our room service options. It looks delicious and there was many a clean plate which went back to the kitchen that day.