There was a really lovely atmosphere at our Flower Arranging Club last week with beautiful bunches of brightly coloured spray Carnations. They looked so lovely that it prompted us to decorate the window area too. Some surprise flower head garlands that lit up were a finishing touch too which delighted the ladies who were keen to be photographed.

Residents at Manorhey enjoyed our Burns Night Celebrations with Haggis and tatties, pictured Alberto originating from Scotland enjoying haggis and a drop of Scottish whiskey

Residents celebrated National Nutella Day when residents took part in Baking Club as they prepared a chocolate cheesecake which our residents enjoyed with an afternoon cup of tea.

Residents and Staff at Manorhey celebrated Chinese New Year with a traditional Chinese meal served by the home's catering staff. Chinese lanterns were made and decorated by residents.

Residents enjoyed their exercise sessions last week using their pom poms. The swimming and shopping themed exercise were liked by the majority of the residents, we then finished of the day with a couple of games of dominoes. 

As a multicultural environment, where people from all around the world, work together giving the best of themselves, to deliver the best of the care. We like to learn a bit more about the people that make that possible, joining to the celebrations of important festivals from other countries and cultures.

This time we joined a quarter of the world's population to celebrate Chinese New Year. We welcomed the year of the tiger with many different activities, where the residents enjoyed a Whole Chinese Immersion Experience.

Last week at Ashfield Court some of the residents were getting very creative ready for Valentine's Day, using a very different technique with Jigsaw pieces to create a heart for our valentines display!

For big garden birdwatch our residents enjoyed arts and craft where we painted a bird house, coloured pictures of birds in and had a selection of bird like activity’s at hand. We listened to some relaxing music during the activity allowing our residents to listen to bird noises and tweets. Our resident enjoyed the activity while looking out the window to see if they could see any birds in the trees, after the bird house was finished we filled it with seeds and hung it on our tree outside.

We had a fabulous crafty morning creating some lanterns for the Lunar New Year. We used shapes and colour to create wonderful patterns on card before magically transforming them into lanterns which look great on display.

Thank you very much to Patricia and her lovely family for sending us some lovely boxes of sweeties which brightened our day here at the home. We did, of course, share these with Pat as we know she has a sweet tooth like us.

Manager Adam and Deputy Tina opened them on behalf of the staff here at White Rose Lodge.  Thank you so much for thinking of us.