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Keep calm and eat chocolate In a world where everything is feeling a bit surreal it’s nice to have some normality, and that comes in the form of Easter celebrations.So, we made our bonnets and went in to the garden (and goodness me, wasn’t it so beautiful and sunny!) and hunted eggs! Some of these […]

Keeping our chin up It has been a very strange week… lots of change and lots of emotions, but we are trying to keep as positive as we can here and keep things upbeat for the residents. I have to say that that isn’t too difficult with the amazing team that I have here. There […]

And today’s advice… Gracious me, it’s so hard to write a blog about Coronavirus when things are changing on a day to day basis, so for today, we have made some decisions… We really need to protect our residents, and everything we do is with them at mind. We have put in extra sanitiser stations […]

Meet the team! Last year we had a few changes to our senior team, so I thought that this was a good place to show them off! Let’s start with Carol… “I joined the team at Summercourt in February 2019 and come with many years experience working as a care home manager, mainly in Torquay […]

Our Lovely Mothers We made the best of Mothers Day at Summercourt, it was strange but we still managed to raise smiles and celebrate. Jess made video contact with some of our families which was just wonderful, other families came to visit and wave at the window. To top the weekend off Lidl in Teignmouth […]

An every day thing… This weekend was National Dignity Day; my feelings about this are a bit like Valentines day… Should be all the time and not just one day of the year! But, it did give us a chance to celebrate all that is good about good care and what we think dignity is […]

Better than a summer holiday It was a very dry and hot start to the summer which really helped our garden. The residents enjoyed the shade in the sunshine and Hilary said it was like being on holiday! They really appreciated the stunning flowers and hard work that had gone on for our Teignmouth in […]

We went to the zoo zoo zoo… What a brilliant trip we had to Paignton Zoo this week! It’s always a bit touch and go weather wise at this time of year, but the morning was glorious and in the afternoon we all laughed as we dodged the showers! Dawlish Disability Transport made it a […]

It’s a dog’s life I must apologise for my lack of blog, my head has been a bit consumed with dog! I have a lovely new puppy called Dylan, and he really is just adorable (slightly biased I know!). So last week my daughter brought him in to meet the residents before her evening shift. […]

Celebrate good times! Oh! The spring has sprung, so I’ve been spending time in the garden trying to smarten things up and get things ready for the residents to start thinking about Teignmouth in Bloom… Whilst I’ve been getting muddy fingers, Meg has taken a couple of our ladies out for an early birthday celebration […]