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We had a lovely pancake day at the home.  Staff and residents enjoyed lots of lovely toppings and the residents even had a turn at tossing their own pancakes.  We had such fun.

The residents enjoyed last week, plenty of different kinds of activities to celebrate St. Valentine's Day.

We celebrated Valentine's Day with with chocolates, wine and beautiful flowers. 

Bowerfield House would like to say a heartfelt 'Thank You' to Down To Earth, a florist in High Lane. Our residents and staff absolutely loved the beautiful roses that were sent to us on Valentine's Day. Thank you for thinking of us and brightening our day. 

Residents are enjoying the return of tai chi with Morag from health and wellness via zoom.  We so missed our Tai Chi during lockdown that we were delighted when Morag was able to do this via Zoom.  Everyone had a fantastic time and were so happy to see Morag again.

We have welcomed a new member of the team to our Oakland’s family, Mickey Sewell has been a chef in the Army for twenty five years before joining us at Oakland's.

We enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year at the home in February and our chefs put together a special menu including sweet n sour pork and stir fry chicken.  The food was delicious as always and the residents thoroughly enjoyed it.

This month we have been celebrating different cultures. We have gathered facts, quizzes, games and art ideas for the residents. This is so they can discuss, reminisce and think about different cultures.

Both residents helped with our Valentines Celebrations, we decorated some vases and re-arranged our table decorations with some new red roses.

We were honoured to have been sent valentine teddies from children of Sutton Cum Lound school, all with lovely messages on the back for our residents to enjoy. 

Singing activities are always a popular request here, and one of our sessions involve a John McSweeney concert with on screen lyrics, advertised as 101 songs you know by heart, a great sing-a-long disc. 

Today, 12th February, we celebrated 'Chinese New Year'. The dining room was decorated with lanterns and bunting and residents were treated to a fab Chinese meal, getting our taste buds going it was a huge success, smiles all round...and clean plates!

Today we have thoroughly enjoyed our daily walk and fresh air in our garden this morning, the weather was pleasant enough to enjoy a chit chat on the bench. What a lovely morning, such a great feeling to be out!

This month we have started a knitting club and it has gone down a treat! Residents at The Belvedere have really enjoyed getting involved, for some its been relighting an old hobby and some are learning from the beginning.

The Westbourne is celebrating with theme of 'Love' this February and began with hippy fancy dress, colourful decorations and a morning of our favourite songs from The Beatles. 'All You Need Is Love' was a definite favourite song to get everyone up and dancing! 

FABULOUS attire for today at Manorhey, wouldn't you agree? We love to add a bit of colour, sparkle and being creative whilst enjoying the music and songs along the way.

Despite National Lockdown our activity team are still able to engage with residents in many ways, from being creative and crafty with feathers or just enjoying some tasty goodies.