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Loose Valley Care Home residents enjoy historical discussions and Burns Night
Last week here at Loose Valley Care Home, we enjoyed a fascinating look back in time at some interesting historical places and people Maidstone Zoo and Cobtree Manor On Monday 22 January, we talked together about the history of Maidstone Zoo, opened in 1934 by the...
Caz and Ellie perform at Loose Valley Care Home
On Tuesday 16 January we were delighted to invite mother and daughter vocal duo, Caz and Ellie, in to Loose Valley Care Home to sing for our residents in the afternoon. We all loved their music which included the Mexican tune 'La Bamba', lots of Cliff Richard hits,...
Mexican Week at Loose Valley Care Home
Our residents had a great time last week on our Nellsar virtual mini cruise to Mexico here at Loose Valley Care Home. Our conservatory got transformed into a mass of colour and all our residents received a handmade Mexican souvenir made from felt – a donkey, cactus,...
Kicking off the New Year at Loose Valley Care Home
A huge 'Happy New Year' from us all at Loose Valley Care Home! Arts, crafts and nails! We have lots of artistic residents at our Home, so we spent an afternoon of decorating our own New Year's banner to hang in our conservatory. Everyone got involved and put there own...
Loose Valley Care Home hosts a festive Christmas Fete
On Saturday 16 December, we organised a Christmas Fete here at Loose Valley Care Home for our residents, families and friends to celebrate together. We served hot chocolate, mulled wine, pulled pork baps and an array of Christmassy sweet treats for everyone to enjoy,...
Loose Valley Care Home residents visit Kenward Trust
A group of our residents at Loose Valley Care Home took the minibus down to Kenward Trust last Thursday. We came down the long sweeping driveway down to a huge white manner house; it was a cold day but nice and dry. We were met by the wonderful staff there who had...
Tiger Primary School children visit Loose Valley Care Home
Last week at Loose Valley Care Home we welcomed a small group of children from Tiger Primary School in to sing Christmas carols for our residents. We had a very full room as so many wanted to come and meet the children and listen to them sing. They sang all the...
Loose Valley Care Home gents enjoy a pub lunch outing
On Tuesday 5 December we took our Loose Valley Care Home residents Doug and Bob to a local pub in East Malling called the King and Queen for some social time and a spot of lunch. The King and Queen is a traditional pub in looks, and we picked a great day for it, as it...
Birthday wishes and Christmas activities at Loose Valley Care Home
Last week we enjoyed multiple birthday celebrations here at Loose Valley Care Home. A big 'Happy birthday' to Barbara (pictured) plus Alf and Rosemary – they had balloons, banners and cakes galore! We also made a flying start on our Christmas decorations during the...
Resin crafts and a visit from Tyler at Loose Valley Care Home
Resin art Last Wednesday at Loose Valley Care Home, Maureen and our Recreation and Well-Being Champion Hayley got creative and made some resin letter key rings together. They used screws and raw plugs in some (to make them a bit manly!) and some silver foil to make...
Loose Valley Care Home residents enjoy a Notcutts trip and fudge making
Trip to Notcutts On Tuesday 21 November our Loose Valley Care Home residents very much enjoyed a trip out to our local garden centre, Notcutts. We took Evelyn, June and Ada to have a look at all the Christmas decorations and do a bit of Christmas shopping. We also had...
Birthday wishes for Maureen and Diwali crafts at Loose Valley Care Home
Happy birthday Maureen Last week we enjoyed celebrating Maureen’s 85th here at Loose Valley Care Home. Maureen went out with her family to a lovely country pub about 10 minutes away and she had such a good day out, she couldn’t stop talking about it when she got back....