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Sharing canine cuddles at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Roxi our wonderful Therapy Dog is providing happiness and connection amidst the third UK lockdown here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. Roxi is a rescue dog who is now in the loving care of our Business Support Officer, Amanda Jones. Roxi can often be found...
Rocco brings smiles to Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
On Saturday 2 January we were delighted to welcome our Well-Being Champion Jo and her family pet Rocco to Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. Rocco is a loving, gentle and kind-natured Shih Tsu and a very much loved pet in the family household. And he was a very big...
Celebrating spaghetti and shortbread at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Monday 4 January marked National Spaghetti Day, so we decided to celebrate it here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home with some spaghetti painting! Our residents had great fun getting messy with paints, creating colourful pictures on paper plates using spaghetti!...
Birthday fun at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
We've had double the reason to celebrate at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home recently! Our lovely Marjorie enjoyed her 88th birthday on Wednesday 30 December. She had a wonderful day, with cards, a lovely helium balloon and a magnificent cake, covered with colourful...
Casino and mocktails at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
We saw in the New Year in style here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home, with our very own casino! Our residents loved taking turns to place their bets, whilst they sipped on mocktails and Baileys. We all enjoyed the lively atmosphere and looked very festive in out...
Christmas jumper and t shirt day at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Last week, we donned our finest and most festive jumpers and t-shirts (and hats!) at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home to celebrate Christmas approaching. Both our staff and residents dressed up in their best tops – we had reindeers, Christmas trees and polar bears to...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home hosts Christmas Bake Off
Our Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home Christmas 'Bake Off' was held on Friday 11 December with visiting Judge, Operations & Compliance Manager Jacqui Shuttleworth, offering her services as a blind taster! We had two entrants and our winner was Victoria with her...
Going quackers at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
You have all heard of dog racing, horse racing and even snail racing; well here at Sonya Lodge Care Home, we've been having some fun with duck racing! Our Recreation and Well-Being Champion Jo made us a brilliant racecourse from our trestle table and our lovely...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home hosts Christmas Tree Decorating Tree Off
Last week we had great fun here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home, when our residents and staff held an exciting 'tree off' competition - to see who could best decorate their Christmas tree. We had a number of different trees and an array of wonderful coloured...
Celebrating National Elf Day at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
We love going all out for National Elf Day here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home! Our staff were a vision of green and red as we enjoyed a day of fancy dress elf fun in support of the Alzheimer's Society on Friday 4 December. We had a competition for our best...
Happy birthday to Ted at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
We celebrated Ted's 83rd birthday on Wednesday 18 November here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. We made sure to spoil him and he loved his birthday cake covered with fruit and candles. He got lots of wonderful cards and was all smiles on his special day. Many...
Music to the ears at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Our resident Rosemary had so much fun dancing with her new MP3 player last week at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. The Purple Angel Charity has kindly donated three free MP3 players to our Home for our residents, which have been preloaded with their favourite...