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We decorated our reception area with a lot of buntings. Also, we made a memory tree for the queen which consists of photos of the queen throughout Her reign. This tree was built with the help of our residents and staff.

On the 1st of June as part of International Milk Day, our residents tasted different flavours and types of milk.

We also played a game, to try to guess the flavour of the milk .

Cavendish Court celebrated in style her majesty’s Platinum jubilee lots of celebrations and happy memories. Splendid afternoon tea enjoyed by all.

Steven, our wonderful assistant chef proudly displaying his Platinum Jubilee Pudding.

We can most definitely confirm that is was delicious, a very worthy winner!

Here at Howgate House we soaked up the atmosphere , we had music, ate and drank and was merry.

Children played ,families spent quality time together in celebration of Her Majesty.

Our sweet shop, burgers and hotdogs, and the ice cream stand went down a treat!

The manager of Hope Green spent time alongside residents over the Jubilee holidays and helped to create a beautiful Tree of Celebration.

Relatives were invited to share the day with the residents as we planted our Jubilee tree and we provided live entertainment along with a lovely buffet. We had games and painting and we gave everyone a plant that they took home with them to plant in their garden.

We were delighted to welcome our local MP Fleur Anderson to unveil the official plaque for our beautiful bottlebrush tree, planted to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.

In the afternoon, our residents played dominoes against us, our resident won the match.

The Queen's Green Canopy is an initiative running nationwide to encourage people to plant a tree to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We are blessed with a garden full of

We were visited by a local ice cream van yesterday, nothing beats an ice cream on a very sunny day! We all enjoyed our fabulous ice cream cones, some with sauce and some with sprinkles.

Our residents love to cook so we had a challenge last week and made homemade pasta and a vegetarian sauce for vegetarian week, great fun was had by all and the results were delicious!

Every floor enjoyed celebrating Cinco De Mayo last week. We enjoyed watching the festival on the television and dancing away to the music whilst using our instruments to make some music. It was good fun to celebrate something different and explore different cultures.

VE day is celebrated all over Europe every 8th May since 1945 to commemorate the end of the WWII in Europe. The residents and staff joined to the celebrations with a traditional VE Day party.

Celebrating our wonderful nurses on International Nurses Day with Nozeco, themed cakes and a little goody bag of gratitude to say how much they are appreciated.

Toasting our Queen after we have planted our commemorative tree, a cherry blossom, chosen by our Resident's committee. Accompanied by Helen our Deputy Manager and of course the Queen herself (well nearly!).

The one thing myself and my colleagues have learned is how to get a giggle out of our residents. Low and behold crazy hair day never fails. From having wigs pinched to Bows borrowed our lovely lot always get involved. What a silly, wacky, day had by all

VE Day celebrations included a great sing-a-long with flag waving and of course lots of dancing together.