Braeburn Lodge

When we saw the snow fall in our beautiful garden, our residents couldn’t wait to get out and explore. We wrapped up warm and went for a little walk around the garden, it looked so wonderful!

Braeburn welcomed little frenchy puppy Romeo today. Yasemin is sharing him with the home and he definitely passed his first meet and greet! Safe to say everyone is very excited for him to begin next week. He was SO gentle and loving, it was so beautiful to watch!

Happy new year from us all at Braeburn. We decided to see out 2020 with a 1920’s theme! Lots of balloons, cocktails, takeaway pizza and nibbles, along with music and dancing! We had a wonderful evening. We hope this year is filled with love and laughter and much more happiness and family interactions! Thank you…

We were all very excited for Christmas at Braeburn Lodge. 2020 had been a tough year for us all but Christmas had given us lots to enjoy and look forward to. We went all out with decorations and our Santa feature display in the hall. The residents got involved with making decorations, decorating our many…

Over Christmas, the residents helped to make some very tasty and festive fondant creams with the help of our activitiesco-ordinator, Ann. There were three different flavours, including strawberry, mint and lemon, and the sweets were cut intodifferent shapes. These were then drizzled with white and milk chocolate, very scrummy indeed! These treats were thengiven to…

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…

We would like to say the BIGGEST THANKYOU to Sean and Chris at The Fox and Hounds pub in Theale. They very kindly arranged a tea and cake morning just for Braeburn, opening the pub early so that we wouldn’t mix with any public members. The pub was spotlessly clean and beautifully decorated. We cannot…

Beryl’s daughter sent some lovely flowers for her to enjoy. One afternoon, Ann and Beryl spent time arranging them beautifully in a crystal vase. You can see the joy on Beryl’s face and it is a wonderful example of the type of ‘one to one’ activities we do here at Braeburn Lodge. These have been…

On the 11th December, we celebrated Christmas Jumper Day. All of our residents had a new Christmas jumper to wear, provided by their family. Even the staff got involved and donned their festive knits. Rachel and Marjorie appeared to be wearing the same jumper! It was lots of fun to see what everyone was wearing…