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Sherbet Dip performs at Loose Valley Care Home
We welcomed drag artist Sherbet Dip to Loose Valley Care Home last week and had a full house in our conservatory for his performance. Sherbet gave an hour's performance and everyone thought his voice was simply amazing. He has had classical training and you can tell....
Loose Valley Care Home residents enjoy St Patricks Day fun
We celebrated St Patrick's Day in style this year at Loose Valley Care Home, decorating our conservatory for the occasion and even getting our animals involved. Billy our resident cat wore his hat with pride, so too our friendly dog Tyler who belongs to one of our...
Japanese day at Loose Valley Care Home
Our final Nellar cruise destination was Japan last week here at Loose Valley Care Home. We filled our conservatory with freshly picked flowers, wisteria, orchids and cherry blossom lights to set the scene, and had a wonderful fun-filled day, with lots of conversations...
Loose Valley Care Home celebrates Nutrition and Hydration Week
Last week at Loose Valley Care Home we joined in with Nutrition and Hydration Week, which aims to bring people together to create energy, focus and fun in order to highlight and educate people on the value of food and drink in maintaining health and wellbeing in...
Mothering Sunday treats at Loose Valley Care Home
On Sunday 10 March we celebrated Mothering Sunday at Loose Valley Care Home and families with great-grandchildren came to visit, and loved ones with gifts of flowers, chocolate and cards showed their appreciation of their mums. Singer Kevin Walsh entertained us with a...
Loose Valley Care Home celebrates World Book Day with local school children
On Thursday 7 March, pupils from Loose Primary School came in to see us at Loose Valley Care Home to read their favourite story books, dressed as characters from the books. We had a Harry Potter and Hermione, a pirate, football player and mermaid – even their teacher...
Community links at Loose Valley Care Home
Last week, our team here at Loose Valley Care Home saw the start of what is hopefully a long friendship with a local primary school. Creating links with our local community is a great way for our residents to maintain their personal sense of connection with local...
Baking Anzac Biscuits at Loose Valley Care Home
Here at Loose Valley Care Home we have started a weekly Cooking Club for residents to enjoy. Cooking is such a big part of life for lots of people and it can be really important for your mental health to continue with usual day-to-day tasks and hobbies that you would...
Sweet treats and Sven at Loose Valley Care Home
Pancake Day We had a blast this Pancake Day at Loose Valley Care Home when we created a crepe bar in our conservatory for our residents to enjoy after lunch. Our crepe maker was primed and at the ready! Our ladies and gents chopped fruit up in the morning and mixed up...
Loose Valley Care Home residents take a virtual trip to Egypt
This week at Loose Valley Care Home we continued our virtual travel and took our residents to Egypt on our Nellsar mini cruise. We started in Cairo, travelling through the Saraha desert to the Nile and down to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, chatting about the...
Valentines Day music and treats at Loose Valley Care Home
We celebrated in style this year for Valentine's Day here at Loose Valley Care Home. We'd made lots of handmade love hearts and love bugs gifts for all our residents and transformed our conservatory with hearts galore, beautifully laid tables, and our trolley all...
Creative colouring for Chinese New Year at Loose Valley Care Home
As part of our Chinese New Year celebrations here at Loose Valley Care Home, we came together to colour some pretty blossom tree pictures in pinks and reds, on Sunday 11 February. We chatted about these beautiful cherry trees (also called 'Sakura') that grow naturally...