Residents spent an afternoon still drawing. All designs were beautifully presented with bright bold colours and these masterpieces have been displayed around the home.

In preparation for last weekend’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, we have been busy creating our own birds in readiness .

Like thousands of people across the UK, we spent some time counting the different species of birds that we see in our garden, including our very own colourful feathered varieties .

A selection of wine and cheese from around the world - what more could you want.!

Over 25 of the people living with us joined the party and gave their critiques. It was a most enjoyable time and all of us are very much looking forward to the next soiree.

Craft Club is a great way for our residents to meet together, catch up on conversations, and get creative. Preparing blue and white bunting in readiness for our Burns Night celebrations and choosing pictures of Scotland which were meaningful to us was so much fun. Memories of Robert Burns poetry and Scottish dancing from school days brought together a lovely display in our conservatory area for everyone to enjoy.

We celebrated "Burns night" in true Scottish Style this week, first we had a traditional burns night supper with both meat and vegetarian haggis accompanied with neeps ,tatties and of course washed down with iron bru. We listened to a poetry recital , completed a quiz and took a look back at the life of Robert Burns .

This ended with a good old Scottish sing a a long and our very own hilarious version of "Donald where's your trousers " We all had great fun and a good old giggle.

We had a lovely time taking part in " adopt a bear "day. Our residents each chose a bear, kindly donated to us, we had fun making adoption certificates and choosing funny names.

A wonderful day of celebrations included personalised activity packs, where residents chose to make bunting or colouring thistles and flags and of course our residents were up dancing together, enjoying the vibrancy of Scottish music. Conversations about visits to Edinburgh and also some of the Scottish islands was a joy to be involved in whilst sampling shortbread provided by our chef fresh from the oven. A real celebration of all Scotland has to offer.

Today our hairdresser has been and our lovely residents have enjoyed a pamper in the hair salon. They were all really happy and relaxed during their pamper.

Some of our ladies had fun yesterday afternoon getting messy in our splatter and paint session. Our residents listened to Opera whilst they painted and those who took part thoroughly enjoyed it.