Birthdays Galore! Latest news from Hillview Nursing Home in Burnham-on-Sea. This month has been a celebratory month for our residents in Hillview. Eight of our residents have marked their birthday celebrations! https://churchlakecare.com/hillview-care-home-in-burnham/ Flowers, cards and gifts from families and friends have brought much needed enlightenment and joy. It goes without saying our staff have put [...]
Beach Day The sun came out from behind the clouds to brighten our ‘Beach day’ at Hames Hall Residential Care at Cockermouth in Cumbria. Our ‘warm up’ session with Kayley and Michelle encouraged all to get their arms and legs moving to the music, this prepared everyone for the ‘Beach volley ball’ game. The big [...]
Autumn begins at Chichester Hall exquisite residential and nursing care home in Cumbria. Here we are at the end of another month, it is hard to believe we are fast approaching Autumn, having in effect, lost Spring and Summer, due to the Pandemic, and all that it has thrown our way at Chichester Hall exquisite [...]
Holmewood Residential Home near Cockermouth holds strong against Coronavirus We are fast approaching Autumn now, after what has felt like a blur for the duration of Spring and Summer – it is exciting to imagine the possibilities the new season could bring with the ever-improving situation with regards to Holmewood Residential Home near Cockermouth and [...]
Shakespeare at Axbridge Court Residential Care Home in Axbridge in Somerset ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date' William Shakespeare wrote these thoughts as part of his Sonnet 18, [...]
A crafty and sensory type of week at Belmont this week! The residents made bird houses out of recycled milk cartons. The residents achieved this by colouring in the milk carton and then cutting out holes for the windows and a door. Once this was achieved, we put in hay, then hung them up in [...]
May in bloom With Spring has come the time for gardening and planting, with everything in our garden being reborn. We have been very busy over the last couple of weeks to make our garden more attractive. The Home Manager and her daughter have worked very hard cleaning up walking areas and planting flowers, and [...]
At Belmont there were lots of VE celebrations this week, we were lucky to receive lots of lovely letters from family and friends, so we spent some time reading these. The residents were really happy as they were from family and friends that we have not seen for a little while. The weather has been [...]
Garden celebration for VE Day We were blessed with the most beautiful sunny weather with which to remember World War II’s Victory in Europe Day of 8 May 1945. Although we have been unable to hire outside entertainers recently due to the coronavirus precautions, it was possible to do so for this event as it [...]
“BRING ME SUNSHINE” Yes, we all know this cheerful song performed for so many years by the wonderful Morecambe and Wise, and singing it on a beautiful sunny day sitting in the garden, with a cup of tea or coffee to hand, gives joy that we all need under the hard circumstances of the coronavirus [...]
