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It would have been Elvis Presley’s birthday this week, so we came up with the idea of celebrating the 1950’s. We had Elvis quizzes, sing-a-longs, cheese and wine tasting, some sport and many more activities. On Monday, we had the giant crossword in the morning and...

  Happy New year to all from our family at Woodlands. Hope the year 2023 brings good health and prosperity to all of us. After the feast we had on Christmas day, we all needed a refreshing walk in our garden so on Monday morning (Boxing day), the residents got...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!! What an amazing week we had in woodlands. We had pre-Christmas party for our residents and a Christmas fete which included lots of Christmas games and delicious foods. On Monday, we had a Christmas choir of primary school...

Anyone for a game of basketball? We all enjoyed it! Our choir practice is going very well, Dawn the choir master has volunteered for us to all join the dementia choir that is starting very soon.  How many different chocolates did we get? We then finished the morning...

We have just had a week full of interesting activities in Woodlands. Following the theme of Scottish week, we had Scottish food and drinks tasting, arts and crafts, quizzes, with a mixture of preparation for Christmas. On Monday, the residents took part in rice...

Christmas decorating is in full swing, what fun we all had.   Some of our residents enjoyed a game of triominos An afternoon of arts & crafts, this is a lovely time for us all to come together. Physio Thursday, we even have family members joining in. Flower...

National ginger-bread day, baking is a lovely time for everyone to be together. The smell coming from the oven was divine. A lovely, relaxed afternoon of families visiting and poetry by Pam Ayres Wednesday afternoon, a few of the residents wanted to go to the...

  The residents enjoyed a lovely walk around the garden, and they came across a flower they had planted. On Thursday afternoon some of the residents went up to visit Hill House for a game of skittles. Which Woodlands did win, so they all came home very pleased...

We started the week with some arts and craft.  SUSHHHHHHH look at the concentration of everyone. Our faithful goats came to visit, Mario and Luigi. More gentle exercises! Thank you, Dawn.   Thank you, Rev Tara, for a lovely church service.   Daily exercises...