Activities at Lucerne House Care Home

Lucerne House celebrated our neighbours from across the pond with our American Celebrations for Independence Day.

Our home was full of American decorations, including a saloon, Las Vegas scenery and a traditional American Rock & Roll café.
Our residents and visitors enjoyed an afternoon of music and a variety of entertainment, including games and a quiz, provided by our life enrichment, care and catering team. Elvis Presley and Donald Trump even made an appearance.

We then followed this with American cuisine, served in takeaway boxes, just like in an American fast food restaurant. We had cheeseburgers, hot dogs, French fries and homemade slaw, which were all complimented by our puddings of ice cream sundaes, all with various toppings and flavours to enjoy.

We had a great day and everyone who joined us said they enjoyed singing, dancing, laughing and the delicious food, prepared by our chef and catering team.

We had a lovely afternoon, reminiscing, chatting and lots of laughter at The New Inn Alphington.
Our residents enjoyed a little tipple and savoury snacks which were all served with wonderful hospitality from the team.

We have also been discussing some of our upcoming events, including our American Independence Day celebrations, taking place this Friday. We will have a music performance from our life enrichment and care team, followed by a delicious American-themed dinner, including cheeseburgers, hot dogs, French fries, milk shakes and ice cream sundaes, all expertly prepared by our catering team.

It was a great afternoon and further solidified how important getting out and about is to us at Lucerne House. We have lots more outings to our favourite places, planned in the coming weeks and over the summer which we look forward to sharing with you. 

To mark this occasion, Lucerne House has invited local community members, volunteers and professionals for a complimentary serving of Fish and Chips.

Sally Coletti, General Manager at Lucerne House, was on hand to welcome visitors, take them on a tour of our home and serve complimentary portions of Fish and Chips, expertly prepared by our chef, Alan and the catering team.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us. We have loved meeting you today and look forward to welcoming you to our home very soon.

Lucerne enjoyed a wonderful afternoon in the garden for World Cocktail Day.

To celebrate the event, Lucerne opened its doors to relatives, friends and visitors for a Cocktails and Canapés event.

Our head chef, Darren, has once again put on a brilliant spread of treats that have been excellently complimented with cocktails, including, Aperol Spritz, Espresso Martini, Piña colada, Pimm's, as well as Sex on the beach Mocktails.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us today. It's been great sharing your company in our beautiful garden, soaking up the sun and enjoying delicious refreshments.

Residents at Lucerne House were delighted to help and support such an amazing venture.

The Thrift Warehouse and Secondhand Craft Shop have been helping to give items high in quality, but destined for landfill, a second lease of life. Carmen Croxall, founder of the Thrift Warehouse, has been welcoming donations that have been snapped up by would-be customers and found new uses in various crafts and creative projects. Residents in Lucerne have been helping to sort through some of the knitting supplies that have all been jumbled up.

With their help, the knitting items, including wool, needles and other fabrics, are now back at The Thrift Warehouse and ready for their next project. 

Lucerne House had the most fantastic day as we celebrated the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
Residents, visitors and guests to our home spent an afternoon in our car park, closed for the day, where they were treated to a street party lunch, expertly prepared and presented by our Head Chef, Darren Knockton.

We had sandwiches, sausage rolls, quiches, nibbles, cakes, scones, sweet treats and plenty of refreshments, that all went down a storm. As we were finishing our lunch, we had a great time, waving flags and singing along to a brilliant show, performed by Zara King. To round out an excellent day, some of our residents were on a special journey in a Triumph TR4 which was on display and was a real talking point. Thank you to Pete for taking our "thrill seekers" for a spin.

It's been a great day, and we want to thank all of our team, from Darren and the kitchen team, our physio, healthcare assistants, housekeepers, admin, activities and members of the management team, as well as our amazing residents, their relatives and guests to our home, including Zara and Pete, for making it such a great day. 

Lucerne House has gone all out for the May Day Bank Holiday

Our home has been buzzing with energy, music and lots of fun and good cheer as we enjoyed an amazing afternoon in our Memory Lane community lounge and garden.

Our life enrichment team kicked off our music festival season with a brilliant performance of favourite tunes, that had us all dancing, singing along, tapping our feet and clapping our hands.

We then enjoyed a delicious BBQ, expertly prepared by our head chef, Darren. We had burgers, hot dogs, vegetable options, including kebabs and even had homemade coleslaw and salad that was prepared by our residents.

It's been a brilliant day, soaking up the sun and making lots of wonderful memories with great company. 

Our residents had the best morning! With such beautiful weather that we are experiencing in Exeter at the moment, we travelled to one of the most beautiful places in Exeter, "The Orange Elephant Ice cream Parlour."

We have soaked up the sun, enjoyed the views of the meadows, shared lots of memories of our time growing up in Exeter, remarked about the famous Orange Elephant that so many of us have driven past over the years and, of course, enjoyed some delicious ice cream.

The flavours we tried today were "muddy wellies", "biscoff", "vanilla", "salted caramel with clotted cream" and also "liquorice". Jacqui, who had the liquorice ice cream, said she wanted to try something different and that she thought it was lovely and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Mrs T even took time to sit and meet our residents, sharing stories of the parlour and how wonderful it has been, seeing all the families visiting, enjoying the ice cream and playing in the meadow. Thank you once again to Mrs T and the Team at the Orange Elephant for your warm welcome and amazing hospitality today. We can't wait to see you all again.  

We plan to return each week, with a different group to try even more delicious flavours. 

Everyone at Lucerne House would like to extend a massive thank you to The Exeter Temple Salvation Army Band for joining us this afternoon.

Our residents, visitors and team members have spent a wonderful time with the group, being serenaded by the brass instruments and tapping their feet to familiar melodies, in the comfort of our beautiful Memory Lane Garden.

We would like to say a special thank you to Douglas for making it all possible. You are a star.

We look forward to welcoming the band back before the end of the summer, to fill our garden and home with their wonderful sounds.