We couldn't wait for VE Day at Garden  Hill Care Home, We had a garden party inside the home with cakes and tea and bunting and had a sing along in the coffee shop.

A community initiative has seen young people in Slough helping to keep up the spirits of residents in care homes across the town, including here at Windmill Care Centre.

Several of our residents have become surprise new pen pals including our lovely resident Dorothy Laing who is really enjoying receiving these letters.

“They have been wondering how life is with me at my age”, she said and is really impressed with their questions. “I can see that they are all very clever girls and we have been enjoying exchanging news about our lives”.

Today in craft club we painted some porcelain gnomes.We had great fun and the residents were really enthusiastic and loved joining in with this activity. When all the gnomes are completed we are going to display them in our gardens as part of our summer garden project. 

The residents decided that for their sensory tasting session this month that they would like to taste some cocktails. The cocktails were: 

Plum and pink grapefruit gin, passionfruit and coconut gin, cosmo cocktail and passionfruit martini. 

We recently had a lovely visit from Thea at Song Box to sing to us from the garden. Thea sent in the below message to the home. 

Continuing with our garden project at Willow Bank we painted the garden ornaments ready to display. Everyone loves a bit of colour! 

A few of our residents at Willow Bank Nursing Home love gardening and talking about the different kind of flowers, so this week we decided to make the entrance of the home a make over. 

We have had some lovely weather over the lock down period In Leeds and we have made the most of it.

Lulu, Activities Coordinator at Willow Bank Nursing Home has starting making pot plant people with residents to display in the garden and around the home. 

One of the resident's at Skell Lodge celebrated her 100th Birthday in May with staff and residents at the home.