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Congratulation to our Deputy Manager, Hilary Hasson who was recently presented with her trophy by Home Manager, Michelle Wray, after winning the prestigious Deputy Manager of the Year award at the annual Maria Mallaband Care Awards last month.

Residents enjoyed a great visit to the local Petting Farm and even fed some of the animals. It was lovely to spend some time out in the local community, appreciating the animals and getting 'up close' to them.

On the first days of the month, the residents throw a tea party to welcome their newest doll residents.

During this tea party the dolls were named and given birth dates chosen and agreed by all the residents.

DARYL JOINED IN AND WAS BRILLIANT, ENTERTAINING US ALL GREAT AFTERNOON.

Cream teas were served from our very own bakery at the new Hope Green Cafe and residents absolutely loved spending time there with their relatives. Alongside the traditional teas and coffees, sparkling lemon and mint drinks were popular as the temperatures soared and the sun shone.

A bit of physical activity took place today having had reserved energy through out the heat wave. Tennis being the sport of choice, whether mobile or seated our lovely residents appeared to enjoy a match.

We would all like to say a huge welcome to Simona, our new nurse completed her probation today. Another successful addition to Kingsbury team.

A warm welcome to Lloyd Wint our new activities manager who is doing a great job here at Furze Hill Lodge.

This morning our residents made fat balls with bird seed and nuts and mixed it up with lard to make bird feeders for our gardens. Later we took the fat balls outside to put in the bird feeders.

Every Wednesday we have our happy hour where there is a choice of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks offered to all of our residents.  
 

The people living at Brunel wanted to have a wine and cheese tasting evening.  The lifestyle team were only too happy to create a platters with a range of cheeses from Mild cheddar to the stronger cheeses like Stilton.

As we have an adverse weather warning the heat is getting to many of us, however we remain positive and continue to smile. Keep a thought to the people working in heat.

There are things you can do to help:

1. Keep curtains closed and lights off when possible,

We had a wonderful trip out to the pub in August and enjoyed sitting outside and having a couple of drinks.

Memory spinners with Scottish opera in St. Columbus church Glasgow, after 8 weeks of training the show was ready for the performance in front of family and friends. What a show it was .. everything looked amazing and all came together to a standing ovation.

Here are some of our lovely Carer’s celebrating “MMCG Carers Appreciation Day “ at Willowdene they all received certificate’s a pen and enjoyed cup cakes a lovely morning was had by all.

Thank you for all you do each and everyday at Willowdene.

We are delighted to announce that Carmen Lewis and Laura Tompkins have achieved a place on the 2022/2023 Care Practitioner course.

We know they will be amazing. Such a fantastic achievement. Well done ladies.

We had so much fun designing and trying the games out for our Summer Fayre in August.  Making sure they all worked as we planned and giving us lots of practice before the summer fayre.  We hope it will be lovely weather for us to raise some money for a good cause.

We had a very special birthday in July when Mary celebrated her 90th birthday with us.  As always we had cake’s and a singsong and made the day as special as possible for Mary.  She had such a lovely day celebrating with the residents before a visit with her family.

Our first trip out since covid, we used the local bus services, and went to the cinema, we watched Elvis. There was lots of dancing and a few tears, an amazing film but very sad indeed.  Our residents loved it and we are already planning for more trips out.