Brookside Care Home

21/04/2026

Residents this afternoon watched a video about “20 Forgotten British Cleaning Rituals Every 1950s Housewife Swore By” and looked at cleaning items . This lead to residents and visitors sharing stories and memories with each other. A wonderful happy afternoon had by all

17/04/2026

Residents decorated a jam jar in the art of Decoupage.Used ripped up patterned napkin and glue. The jam jars were left to dry. Once dried they need to be finished off with ribbon etc and will be used for flower arranging soon to go on the tables in the dining room.

16/04/2026

Today’s ‘crafternoon’ was all about Spring blossom and in particular the cherry blossom.

We had some family members join us for the craft session which was lovely. We finished off with a Spring related quiz.

14/04/2026

Today residents have been sowing some sunflowers🌻 sweet peas , nasturtium ,and pea 🫛 seeds. The wait is on now to see if they will grow or not. Fingers crossed🤞

14/04/2026

This lovely lady had a wonderful birthday yesterday,celebrating with a Gin and Tonic .Cheers

10/04/2026

Today one of our residents did a Show and Tell about the paintings and drawings she had done. We all had a go at drawing a daffodil with instruction from the resident.

09/04/2026

Residents and staff had a wonderful afternoon looking at fashion items from different decades. Trying on hats gloves and jewellery.

09/04/2026

Residents made Bird🐦Treats for the garden using peanut butter, old paper roll and bird seed. We put them outside and watched the birds feed from them . There was even a cheeky squirrel 🐿️ that was eating the sunflower seeds of them

07/04/2026

Thank you very much such what a lovely surprise from Bamber Bridge Sainsbury’s so kind of you to donated these flowers to our residents very much appreciated. From the Manager, Residents and staff 's

02/04/2026

Easter Craft Afternoon.

02/04/2026

02/04/2026

The residents had a visit today from the Easter Bunny