Activities at Milford House Care Home

Residents enjoyed a celebratory Valentine's lunch which saw the dining rooms awash with red, both in terms of the decor and in the residents choice of dress for the day as everyone got into the party spirit. We had Paul serenading us on the piano throughout lunch (and presented him with a token of our appreciation for his lovely playing for this and many of our other events,), our chefs prepared a delicious meal which had a heart-shaped pudding course (of course!), and even our yummy cake in the cafe followed the theme set alongside the lovely flower arrangement our residents had created earlier in the week. With everyone around the home joining together it made for a very special day as the smiles and laughter show.

Thank you so much to Linking Hearts therapy horses for bringing the wonderful Mr Kelloggs to Milford where everyone who met him simply fell in love. Mr Kelloggs who is 9 years old and stands at 29 inches high is the sweetest, gentlest character who has been visiting and bringing smiles and joy wherever he goes since he was 6 months old. With his bootees on and his forelock plaited he quietly went around the home and visited wherever residents were waiting to see him. As can be seen from the photos it was a really special afternoon. Thank you to 'team Kelloggs' - we will see you again soon.

Residents and staff at Milford House Care Home in Salisbury were treated to a fabulous afternoon of song from 'The Navy Larks' who, despite their name, are based in landlocked Salisbury and who treated residents to a variety of old and new shanties and songs of the sea. Sung with spirit and gusto the group had residents joining in with familiar favourites such as 'What shall we do with the drunken sailor?' and more!  We are keeping our fingers well and truly crossed in the hope that they can be persuaded to come in again as everyone clearly had a wonderful time.

There is nothing that we enjoy more at Milford than a lovely garden themed activity, and we have recently had a group cutting out beautiful flower prints and making their own flower vase pictures from their favourites. It may be sub-zero outside but that doesn't stop us from thinking about warmer days ahead and what we hope to see in our gardens. With this in mind we have been getting together with our new gardener Caroline (both inside and outside!) to talk about what everyone would like to grow in the gardens over the coming summer and we are really excited to have Caroline guiding us in this - in fact we think we are officially going to make 2024 the 'Year of the Garden' here at Milford!

With our dining rooms dressed to the nines, residents assembled to toast the New Year, let us into their new year resolutions and enjoy the delicious meal prepared by our talented team of chefs which was the perfect way to kick off 2024 before everyone came back down to earth with a bang and found themselves in January!   Our Christmas and New Year was filled with sparkle and fun and our new year’s resolution as a team is to keep the fun going throughout 2024.

The anticipation had been building and the Milford Christmas House - along with its Christmas Trees - was painted, decorated and finally delivered to the beautiful setting of St Thomas's Church, Salisbury where it has joined 93 other exhibits! We have been receiving lots of lovely compliments from visitors to the exhibition who have seen our tree and residents have also visited during the week . Alongside the trees there was a full programme of activities going on from choirs to bell ringing - the festival was open for five days and was a really festive occasion in the heart of Salisbury that was guaranteed to get everyone into the Christmas Spirit.