Happy New Year!

Here at Hope Green we spent some time together thinking about any resolutions we would like to make. Residents and staff joined in conversations joined with lots of laughter too as we popped our resolutions into our sparkling jar. We're also going to keep adding to it over the next few days as we continue to discuss our plans for the weeks and months ahead.

We started the year by launching our Gardening Club here in Amber Court, it was participated by our residents and staff. Joan and Jimmy planted tomatoes, lettuce, mint herbs and spring onions. We are all looking forward to harvest these vegetables soon. This is a weekly activity that we get to plant our own vegetables and flowers. It was fun and good for everyone, especially to our residents that likely improve their wellbeing. Great job everyone!

Christmas as we know, is the most festive season of the year and this competition allowed us to make it even more festive and special for our residents, getting involved not just our residents, but the staff and the members of our community.

As we celebrate National Cheese Lovers Day, we in Amber Court organised a wine and cheese tasting. Everyone enjoyed tasting the different types of cheese, crackers, dips, nuts, fruits and non-alcoholic wines. We also had fun socialising with each other while some staff is singing karaoke. What a great experience for everyone!

Last week our lovely residents enjoyed a bingo afternoon. We played for prizes/ for a line and then the full house, our residents were really in their element concentrating on the numbers making sure they didn’t miss one.

They then had a film afternoon and chose within the group what film they would like to watch, drinks and snack were served during the film.

Ann was delighted with the results of her floral interpretation.

Sylvia had fun helping to make a luxury hot chocolate , she helped to whisk the chocolate into hot milk, added a touch of syrup and topped it off with cream and marshmallows.

It's International Flowers Day, in line with this we organised flower arrangement sessions for the residents and staff. Since flower arranging helps us to boost the mood and happiness, it also promotes socialization and it helps reduce stress and anxiety for everyone. This was participated by staff and residents. Look how beautiful our finished product is. Great job staff and residents! Will definitely do this again some other time.

A lovely afternoon of chatting and creating wool and paper flowers. The residents then enjoyed using them along with previously made pom poms and other found objects to create a wonderful table top arrangement full of colour and different textures. The display came together nicely with the purple and tartan in preparation for Burns Night next week.

Winnie the Pooh has been a childhood favourite for generations.

At Buckingham House we all enjoyed remembering Winnie the Pooh, along with his friends Kanga, Rabbit, Roo, Tigger and Eeyore and all of their wonderful adventures together in the Hundred Acre Wood.