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Australia Day was celebrated with one of our most favourable activities - armchair travel.

Gardening club is back in full swing and we have began to sow our seeds! All have enjoyed getting their hands stuck in to the soil and looking through the variety of flowers that we have been potting. Look out for our red sunflowers and our giant yellow sunflowers.

It is the year of the tiger which means this year is all about courage, generosity and peace. If you're celebrating the Chinese New Year, Bowerfield House would like to wish you all good health, wealth and good vibes for the new year!

What a better way to enjoy Saturday evening with a Cheese and Wine Party! The residents had a great time singing and dancing their favourite songs while a selection of red and white wines were served with cheese, grapes and crackers.

We celebrated the Chinese New Year in style. We watched a beautiful Dragon Dance show from Hong Kong on our large screen, ate Chinese spring rolls with sweet chilli sauce and prawn crackers, we listened to relaxing Chinese Music and learnt a little about the History of the Chinese Rulers.

There was a really lovely atmosphere at our Flower Arranging Club last week with beautiful bunches of brightly coloured spray Carnations. They looked so lovely that it prompted us to decorate the window area too.

Last month, one of the residents enjoyed a nostalgic seaside jigsaw puzzle. We talked about trips to the seaside when we were younger and our favourite seaside activities.

Residents and Staff at Manorhey celebrated Chinese New Year with a traditional Chinese meal served by the home's catering staff. Chinese lanterns were made and decorated by residents.

As a multicultural environment, where people from all around the world, work together giving the best of themselves, to deliver the best of the care.

Bowerfield House enjoyed doing a time capsule, we put in Covid tests PCR and lateral flow tests, a photo of everyone who lives and works at Bowerfield House, and a news paper, we picked 2.2.2022 as this date is a palindrome date , meaning it can be read the same way backwards and forwards.

Residents at White Rose Lodge have been getting crafty with their caring by decorating bird houses and creating cereal bird feeders which we can put outside in our beautiful garden to help wildlife as part of our MMCG pledge “Feeding the Community”.

We love games day at The Moors and had so much fun with play your card right and bowling lots of fun and laughter was had by all.  We can’t wait to welcome you into the home when COVID allows to have a game of Play Your Cards Right as there are lots of shouts of higher, lower, stick.

An Oaklands resident skilfully crafted a New Year wreath in January to mark the turn of the year. She used fresh greenery from the Oakland’s gardens and some Christmas baubles.

We had a fantastic afternoon on the Wii, residents really enjoyed it. Ken seemed to have loved every minute of it. The other residents just wanted to watch and cheer Ken on. They were his biggest supporters.

We had some fun with the old games at the home this month as well as learning new technology.  We played games of hoopla, tin can alley and then an afternoon of games on the tablet (squash the spider).  The residents thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were so good at squashing the spider

We always enjoyed going to our tea club but with COVID and the cold winter days we decided to start our own weekly tea club at the home. Our residents look forward to it each week and it’s a great opportunity to catch up with each other.

Today we have spent the morning going through our "Postcards of kindness". Cards and letters from different people and pets from all over the country.