Activities at White Lodge Care Home

White Lodge has a varied and interesting activities and events programme, but sometimes residents do just want to the normal things they would have done at home. Baking is always a favourite and this week Doreen has helped with the hoovering and the empathy dolls have been really popular with residents on Memory Lane. What is so important to us all at Barchester White Lodge is that residents can do what they wish to do.

Ioana and Tina will be representing White Lodge at the Barchester Care Awards in Manchester. As winners of divisional Garden of the Year White Lodge goes forward to the National Awards. Due to the unseasonably warm weather our courtyard is showing more signs of summer still rather than autumn. It is wonderful to still see so much colour. 

White Lodge had the pleasure of welcoming James Gray, MP for North Wiltshire to the home today.  James Gray was shown around the home by General Manager, Ramona Gherendi and Customer Relationship Manager, Catherine Crawshaw, taking time to talk to residents and staff.  As MP for the area for nearly 25 years, he thought he had visited every corner of North Wiltshire, but had not been to White Lodge and as with everyone who visits was taken back by the stunning location, extensive grounds and tranquility.  We would like to thank James Gray for taking the time to visit White Lodge and very much hope to welcome him to the home again in the future.

It was pleasantly warm at times today so we took the opportunity to walk down towards the farm. It is a beautiful time of year, so long as it isn't raining we go for our daily walks and with so many acres to choose from every walk is different. We then came in to enjoy some mug cakes, Tina spotted these and thought they would be fun to try and they were really tasty - perfect when you fancy some cake instantly!

Memory Lane residents have created some stunning floral displays. We are so fortunate to have such talented creative residents who really enjoyed an afternoon chatting, designing and then placing the displays around the home.  We were delighted to drop off two of our stunning flower arrangements to St Mary's Church, Purton for their Harvest Festival Service.

Work is continuing to update the White Lodge Memory Lane Community, we cannot wait to reveal the end result! Ramona's boot was full yesterday with some fabulous items for the seaside theme. The whole team have been working so hard with Tina and Tracy painting over the weekend and Carl was delighted to have an assistant, one of our residents was keen to help out with the painting. The interaction with the residents on Memory Lane has been so lovely as we work on the project, there is a real sense of excitment and interest.