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Mmm anyone for lunch 🥗
Our residents tucked into either a lovely vegetable and coconut 🥥 curry 🍛 with naan bread 🥖 or poached fish 🐠 florentine !!
Mmmm 😋 was the response around the dining room !! Plenty more of requests for seconds !

Some lovely 😻 ladies today decided to show off their pearly whites and best smiles today !!
They are look amazing 😻
Who do you think 🤔 has the best smile 😃
Random fun before lunch!!

Mmmm anyone for a milkshake!!
These beat McDonald’s milkshakes any day of the week says Mike !!!
Thick, creamy, lots of sweetness and they taste absolute fabulous! That’s just one quote about our milkshakes !!
Pop in and try one !! We have strawberry 🍓, vanilla, banana 🍌, chocolate 🍫, caramel to name a few !!

Calling all Brownie, Guides. Cubs,scouts, primary schools ! Bupa Southlands is holding its annual scarecrow festival and we are wanting as many teams as possible to join in !!
We need them displaying in our garden at Southlands and there will be prizes for the top three most imaginative scarecrows!
See our pictures below !
We need them to be brought to Southlands week commencing 14th October and judging date is Wednesday 23rd October
For further details please email [email protected]
Please share this post we want a record number of scarecrows filling the gardens !
No theme just be imaginative and make our residents smile 😊




PLEASE ALL LIKE AND SHARE AND JOIN IN WE WANT A BUMPER CROP OF SCARECROWS IN THE GARDEN 🪴!!!

It’s been a crafty few weeks at Southlands. Check out the work below!⬇️

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It is never late to learn something new! We enjoyed playing the ‘Tumbling Tower’ or ‘Jenga’ the first time this afternoon.

Enjoying another lovely day at the Southlands playing games with friends and relatives.

The finale of the Wild West !
I hope you haven’t been bord with all of our posts! We have so much to share with you all !!
Her with have miss Hallie and her brother Carter with their great nana 👵 our lovely Jean !!
Hallie was given a Southlands award for being the most outstanding Line Dancer 💃! She gave it her all and enchanted us with her dancing skills !! Her lovely smile 😀 and both hers and Carters manners - it is a pleasure to have you both in the home and judging by jeans smile 😀 great nana thinks so as well !!

Mmmm 😋 anyone for a nice piece of our old favourite ❤️ Victoria Sandwich- yes please said the residents along with a lovely cuppa 🍵 it certainly hit the spot!
Neil the Chef Manager certainly scored the brownie points for pulling this cake 🍰 out of the bag !!
Mmm what will he make next??
Orders below !!

Welcome to our new receptionist Stanley !!
Stanley came to visit his grandad 👴 Finlay and while they went to lunch 🥙 Cora and I had the pleasure of his company - he has been answering the phone and speaking to our residents !!
Stanley your hired !!!!

Here we have lovely 🥰 Lesley who spent the entire night dancing 💃!! And made us laugh as when she went to bed 🛌 she picked up her frame 🖼️!!
This morning 🌅 Lesley came down full of the joys of spring!!

It’s not just the residents who enjoy 😉 a party 🥳!! As you can see our staff had a great time as well ! From dancing and singing 🎵 to trying to line dance 🕺! To having fun with the residents !!
This is what makes us the dream team !!
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Wow wow wow 😮!! What a treat we had last night ! Out wild west evening was a treat for all!!
From our dancing 💃 queen 👸 miss Hallie
To our lovely Christine one of our new residents who had the best time and said she never expected life to be like this in a care home 🏠
Huge thanks to Gita Renik and the line dancing team plus our fantastic singer Chris Raddings

Eyes 👀 down its Bingo time !
The highlight of the week !
It’s a very competitive game!
The prizes are great 😊
Come and have a go!!

The Olympics may be over but we are still keeping active at Southlands. We practised our throwing skills and aim in a chaotic points game this afternoon 🏀⚽️🥏

Our winner was the wonderful Lesley🏆

Don’t forget to join us for our Wild West evening
Tuesday 20th August 6-7.30pm
🍔, hot dogs 🌭 drinks 🍷 available
Come and help us celebrate 🍾!!

We painted Australian Aboriginal dot paintings today. We did watched a video before to see how it’s created and made beautiful pieces. 🎨🎨🎨

Today we continued our Australian trip - we visited Barrier Reef. We did colour some corals and had fun of talking about the beauty of the Ocean. 🐬🐙🪼🪸

We love our arts and crafts at Southlands! And this afternoon we’ve been busy making hand print turtles. Don’t they look amazing?! 🖌️🎨🐢👨‍🎨

Well look who came to visit today ….. beautiful 😻 Sophia Rose 🌹 having a cuddle 🥰 with Lynne - Sophia is the daughter of one out our staff members ….. Laura
Thank you Laura for bringing in your precious bundle in to see us

Celebrating International Cat Day on our Arts and Crafts session. We had chats about cats during the activity and had a lot of fun naming them all at the end.

Our Olympic Games are still on! We had a swimming duck race today, some ducks went flying! Everyone was laughing a lot while having fun. 🦆🦆🦆

Shooting with balloons and flicking the chicken at our Olympic Games Competition. We had a lot of fun and laughing loud when the ballon was flying around our Ball Room. 🎈🎈🎈

We enjoyed a morning session of Tai Chi. Our lovely Residents felt relaxed and calm after. 💪🧘💪

Today we started our Australian Fly Drive Tour - we went on a virtual tour around Sydney and chatted about Opera House. We collected a lot of smiles on the way. 🇦🇺🦘🐨

The Olympics 2024 are very popular at Southlands to watch and to participate as much as we can!

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