During June, we spent as much time as we can outdoors in the sunshine, getting the garden ready for Summer, as well as sampling delicious Cream Teas and enjoying visits from family and friends. Pimms in the garden Our residents have been making the most of the Yeovil sunshine, sitting and relaxing in the [...]
What a busy few weeks we have had here at Ferns Nursing Home! During May we introduced some lovely new and exciting activities for our residents – and they seem to be enjoying them very much! Our activities: A weekly ‘Library on Wheels’ was introduced and has a selection of books for our residents to [...]
Well what a busy few weeks with activities, our monthly Holy Communion was combined with the Harvest Festival where we gave a basket of fruit and had living waters, our Christian singing group, perform. Sadly, they are retiring at the end of the year, but we wish them all the best! The weekly quiz went [...]
Garden Party On 31st August we held our annual Garden Party. The garden party was a successful event, and we raised £174.60! We are very grateful to our resident's families who volunteered on the day serving teas, coffees and strawberries and cream. Oh, course our signature Pimm's went down a treat with everyone. Our head [...]
Flexercise and Games We have had another couple of busy weeks with our activities team. Our regular flexercise, the seated exercise class we run, went off with great success. A resident requested to play our word games to keep brains active and encourage a bit of positive competition. We held a quiz on Wednesday, which [...]
We have had a busy time at Ferns with our activities over the last month. Flexercise Every week, both Kate and Karen have provided Flexercise, which is a wheelchair-based exercise class. It can last anything from 10 to 60 minutes, depending on how our lovely residents feel. We use socks as weights and have our [...]
