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Our beloved Boogle – entertaining and challenging for everyone  😛

In case you have not met her – the lady with the guitar is Naomi. It is not just the guitar mind you – it is the warm and friendly personality, the big smile, the voice and then magic happens. People love joining the singing group – whether it is to sing, to listen to others singing songs we remember or have not heard before, to socialise.

Ingredients: hats, gloves, coats, walkers, Ian, Lynda, Rosemobile. Mix together and finally add the seafront at Budleigh Salterton.

We love watching men at work!

We are getting towards the end of converting a number of bedrooms specifically for people with early dementia. Like the other rooms in the Cottage they have level walk-in showers, and dementia friendly furniture and furnishings to the specification that won us a Gold Award for design from Stirling University. This means that we will be able to admit more people living with early dementia, and so balance out the number of people in our two communities. The builders are working closely with us to make sure that the resident’s daily lives are affected as little as possible. In fact for some of the residents the building work provides for an interesting and ever changing spectacle…