We had a lovely addition to the Ashfield Court family when Cosmina had her baby girl on 7th August 2020 at 22.16 weighing in at a healthy 7lb 4oz.

Both mummy and baby are doing well and we can't wait to meet you soon. From all at Ashfield Court welcome to the family.

The sun is out in Catterick and we thought we would go to the beach, or rather our fabulous activities lady Elaine, thought we could create our own beach in the home. We all had a fabulous day with our fake sand, face props. beach ball, candy floss and ice cream.

We all had such fun with the face prop and even built a sand castle and enjoyed the lovely cooling ice cream. We will definitely visit again.

On 6th August 2020 Rose Lodge Care Home in Newton Aycliffe celebrated the nomination of Diane Tweddle, Innovation Activities Programme in the 6th annual MMCG and Countrywide Care Awards.

Each unit at the home watched the awards and celebrated with a Buffet and cakes and cheered along for our sister homes in the region who were up for nominations of various categories.

Well done on your nominated Diane, next year let's steal that crown from Windmill Court (Cornwall) .  Well done Jemma a worthy winner.

We have received lots of lovely gifts from family and friends of the home in July which included a lovely framed Care Giver verse and a rainbow picture with the verse 'when the world stayed apart we stayed together'.

Thank you, we appreciate all of your love and support at Rose Lodge.

We had some fun in the activities lounge with the parachute. There was lots of laughing coming from the room.  Everyone held a colour in a circle and then we popped a ball in the middle and flicked up the parachute to see which colour the ball landed on when the parachute came back down to eye level. There was much debate whether it was one colour or another.  We got quite competitive.

We were so grateful to receive a wonderful donation of afternoon tea from Lakes & Dales Co-operative.

A huge donation, of everything anyone could need for a wonderful afternoon celebration. Sandwiches, scones, cakes, and non-alcoholic fizz to make it a wonderful celebration.

We had a party in all of the dining areas, with bunting, music and a great atmosphere. 

A wonderful afternoon, had by all. 

Meet Maya our Chef at Rosedale Nursing and Care Home. She loves baking cakes for our residents and seeing the delight on their faces when she presents the afternoon snacks.

Maya and her team were delighted to be awarded the 5 Star Food Hygiene Award again this year when they were inspected in January. Well done team Rosedale.

We celebrated National Ice Cream Day at the home on 23rd July and we certainly picked a lovely day for it as the sun was shining outside and we enjoyed our afternoon ice cream treat.

We celebrated National Cheesecake Day on 30th July at Rosedale and we thought it would be amazing to have cheesecake for our tea break in the afternoon.

Maya our head chef made a raspberry cheesecake which was simply divine.

Happy 59th Wedding Anniversary to Jean and Eddie. Jean was delighted to see Eddie when he came into the home to celebrate their anniversary in July.  They had a lovely time together and some tea and cakes to celebrate.

We hope you had a fabulous day and congratulations on 59 years together.