Our stories

Our craft club is always looking at different ways of being creative and we were delighted with the results of our Rock Painting. Residents decided they would like to use red white and blue colours so the rocks could be used throughout the year in the celebrations of the Queens Platinum Jubilee.

The residents enjoyed many different activities to celebrate one of the most important days at the Grand National, Ladies Day.

It was important to us to provide a time of Reflections on Good Friday with Easter Hymns and words of contemplation so we combined this with our Painting Club. It was great to see everyone enjoying the relaxing atmosphere, with residents singing along to familiar hymns whilst painting.

The Grand National is the most famous of British Horse races. It was first run in 1839 and is a race over distance of 4 miles and 2 and a half furlongs. There are 30 jumps.

Our lovely residents were preparing ahead of our Easter bonnet competition

A lot of hard work has gone into making our Easter bonnets this year and we have had a Parade to show off everyone's work! Residents enjoyed showing off their hats to our judges Bronwen and Nurse Hannah. It was a good laugh for everyone to join in and have a bit of Easter fun!

Bowerfield House would love to wish everyone a very Happy Easter. We celebrated with dressing up in an Easter Hen outfit which made all residents giggle and every resident and staff member enjoyed an Easter Egg.

Acorn House are over the moon with the recent Health Watch report which followed after an unannounced visit, care home manager Cherise Homer-Beck said we are so happy with the report feed back and really pleased with some of the kind comments made to the health watch inspectors by staff, visitors

The Alzheimer's Society's April challenge is to complete a total of 3,000 squats during the month.

We've been preparing the home with Easter decorations, including bunting outside and in. The residents enjoyed putting together Easter baskets ready to be filled with sweet treats and decorating our Easter branches with eggs, making a wonderful colourful display.

Bowerfield House have planted a beautiful tree called Malus for the Queen`s Platinum Jubilee. Malus is standing proudly in the front garden, when it grows we will have beautiful pink flowers plus yummy apples that the chef can pick and make a apple sauce.

The Hawthorns are getting in the Easter spirit. Today the residents made an Easter Tree. They painted and coloured in small Easter eggs which they then hung on a small branch. This is displayed in our newly decorated lounge to start the celebrations

We all know that movement is very important for us all and a Bridge House all the team including the manager Raluca like to get involved with the classes that we have happening.  Sometimes we use a balloon or a tambourine to make movement fun. 

The people living with us wanted to enjoy a pamper and wanted to have a spa day so we made sure that we created that for them.

Some of the gentleman living at Bridge House wanted to have a Gentleman's Club where they can get together.  With the home being conveniently next door to the local pub, they were more then happy to host.

Our weekly chair exercise group is a hit with the residents. We have progressed from our first gathering and really cannot wait to see our future results. We finished on a fun note with some ring tossing and our winner managed five rings in a row, yay team!

Our lovely residents decided they wanted a quiz, so we had a quiz. What a giggle we had. Laughter makes a dreary day brighter!

At Ashfield Court we looked over lots of books and shared all the memories of walking that some of the residents had done!