Christmas Party Time!

Here the residents enjoyed their Christmas party! Games of bingo were played and a Christmas raffle held, all while listening to festive songs and eating a delicious buffet.. fun was had by all. Merry Christmas to all family and friends, from all at The Mountains.

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Making Christmas Cards

We really enjoyed making our own unique Christmas cards to send to our families. We got crafty with festive colours and glitter stickers and we think they look beautiful!

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Christmas Games

Our residents enjoyed some Christmas games this afternoon. They particularly enjoyed the reindeer ring toss game!

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Pyjama Party

To celebrate Ro’s birthday, we took the opportunity to do something a little different and had a PJ Day! Residents and staff all dressed in their favourite warm pyjamas for the day. This was to pay homage to Ro’s favourite saying, “Go back to bed and stay warm”. Ro had a wonderful day celebrating and…

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Festive Guest

Today we had a very festive guest visit us. Complete with a red coat, antlers and of course a bright red nose, this shetland pony named, Tonto was a very welcome guest indeed.

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Bottle Lights

Today we enjoyed a craft afternoon with a few bottles and some sparkly fairy lights. We made a festive decoration, which we can place around the house this Christmas.

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Doll Therapy

After a recent huge success with doll therapy here, we decided to invest in a new doll. We reached out on Facebook to a reborn doll group where we asked if any were for sale. We had an incredible response, and a lady reached out to us with this beautiful little boy doll. We purchased…

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Beautiful Baking

We are really proud of our in house cooks, Paulina and Helen, for making these delicious Christmas treats for ourresidents. Visual presentation is always on point and, most importantly, the taste tests are always a resounding success! Here are more delicious delights – an iced winter berry fruit loaf, strawberry gateau and a marvellous meringue.

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Oh Christmas Tree…

This Christmas, Braeburn Lodge had 5 trees to decorate around the home, so with that in mind we got crafty and decided to make some salt dough decorations. We cut out many different shapes relating to the festive season, before baking them long and slow in the oven. Once they had cooled, we then painted…

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