Activities at Wimborne Care Home

Happy St Patricks Day, our residents enjoyed all things Irish! Starting the day sharing stories of our travels to Ireland while enjoying a taste of Guinness. 

Everyone was then treated to a tailored-made Irish lunch with your classic dishes following a drink of Baileys for a sweet treat. In the afternoon, everyone was found having a go at the classic Irish jig and singing along to the best tunes from Irish Artists. 

We felt we did all the Irish men and women out there proud, now for a glass of whisky!  

Who doesn’t love animals? Although we are all used to seeing furry friends, we wanted to opt for some more exotic creatures, some with not so many legs and some with not so much fur. We were joined by the wonderful Zoolab who brought in some weird and wonderful creatures. 

Starting with our eight-legged friend, everyone enjoyed learning all about this animal and found it so fascinating. We saw visits from cockroaches, snakes, frogs and much more. Some residents even held a few of these creatures and got to live their dream of holding a snake. It was a wonderful afternoon to learn about these amazing, unusual animals.

Many of our residents share stories of growing up baking with their mum, grandma or children and have it as such a cherished memory. 

We wanted our residents to continue to have these feelings and now run a weekly baking club in which they can enjoy using their hands to create sweet treats and savoury snacks to eat throughout the day. 

It brings back so many memories with the smell of freshly baked cakes and clothes covered with flour, we already can't wait to see the next baking creation.

As part of our weekly mini-bus trip schedule we had to add in shopping trips! Many of our ladies love to go shopping and you can't beat a bit of M&S. 

One of our residents used to work at M&S and loves to go back and feel like she did back then, and another lady used to go every Sunday with her partner and loved that she got to go again and reminisce over her great times she had there. 

All the ladies loved to look around the new clothes and the food hall and may have treated themselves to a few treats to bring home. 

We are lucky enough to have abundant wildlife here at our home, from foxes, to birds and squirrels, so it was important for us to join the big garden bird watch and help share the wildlife we have in our garden.

To get ready for the big weekend, we joined our head of maintenance, Gary, as he took us through a fat ball making master class to create treats for all our birds. We used a mixture of seeds to attract all our different species, using our hands to mould the fat and the seeds together to create a nutritious snack in our courtyard. 

This activity went down so well. Everyone would like to do it more often, and we have already seen a spike in bird activity throughout our gardens. 

Many of our residents here at Wimborne have lived and travelled to Scotland a lot throughout their lives and have lots of stories to share! We started this special day reminiscing over our favourite Scottish memories, a quiz and, of course, singing along to some of our favourite tunes from Scottish artists, we even discovered some residents who lived in the same little town for many years and shared lots of memories throughout the morning. 

After singing the classic Robert Burns ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and dancing to ‘Donald Where’s your Trousers’, we headed to the dining room to enjoy a classic cuisine of Cullen Skink Soup following Traditional Haggis with neeps and tatties and finishing off with mixed fruit Cranachan. We then finished the day with a tipple of whiskey or two.