Activities at Wimborne Care Home

Being a care home right by the seaside as everyone can imagine we all love Summer! No one here is Wimborne is ready for the summer to end so we had one last celebration to celebrate with our friends and family. Even though we couldn’t get outside on this day we brought the sunshine in with colourful decorations and enjoyed an afternoon BBQ with homemade burgers and an ice cream sundae. We then enjoyed dancing and singing with our residents favourite singer Nathalie with our friends and family to end the summer and bring in the autumn season.

Tim has been living at home for over a year and has always reminisced over his time in the merchant navy. Tim’s farther was in the navy during WW2 and he wanted to follow in his footsteps. Tim started off his career as an apprentice for  Shell on Tankers before joining the Merchant Navy and worked his way to an engineer on board. He travelled the world in his career and lived in many different places from Scotland to New Zealand and most recently has a small yacht sailing just of the coast here in emsworth. As we can all see from his history he was born to be on the water so we wanted to make sure he got back out to sea. Tim and the team headed to the beautiful seaside area of Hythe to join a boat trip around Southampton harbour From the minute we stepped on board the crew were talking to Tim in mariners slang which he loved from talking about the sea current to the direction of travel. Tim was at the helm in the captains seat for the journey and took the lead in our voyage around the solent. The smile and concentration of Tim throughout was remacable to see and hearing even more stories about his time at sea made everyone smile you can tel this is Tim’s happy place.

This week our residents headed to the beautiful seaside area of Hythe to join a boat trip around Southampton harbour. 

From the minute we stepped on board the crew were talking to our resident Tim in mariners slang which he loved, from talking about the sea current right through to the direction of travel. 

Tim was at the helm in the Captains seat for the journey and took the lead in our voyage around the Solent. The smile and concentration of Tim throughout was remarkable to see and hearing even more stories about his time at sea made everyone smile.

You can tell this is Tim’s happy place, Ahoy Captain Tim!

This week, we took some of our residents out to our local garden centre to look at this seasons plants and flowers. 

Our residents absolutely love Dobbies, so much colour and variety.  

We even had to time to stop and smell some of the plants and get some inspiration for next season in our gardens!

Here at Wimborne, we set our team and residents a competition of growing the largest and tallest Sunflower. 

We knew that with a little sunshine, a speckle of rain and some good luck, we would grow some amazing sunflowers and there was a very clear winner.

Our wonderful resident Joy came in first place with her Sunflower that stood the tallest over every other!

Congrats to Joy and well done to all of our residents and team at Wimborne for helping plant some beautiful sunflowers. 

This week some of our residents took a trip to Sam's Sunflowers on the island. 

People come from far and wide to visit this famous area where there are beautiful sunflowers and wild flowers to admire.

Our residents got to pick the best sunflowers of the season to bring back to our home, how wonderful!