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Christmas Dinner with all the trimmings was enjoyed by residents and staff with a glass of Bucks Fizz. Residents had been carefully making their own table mats with festive pictures and these had added to the beautifully decorated tables but also created lots of conversation too.

We have some nifty movers at Bridge House, sometimes you just need to get up and dance.

What a busy time we have had preparing for the festive season.  We have been Christmas Card making and decorating the tree and the whole home.

We’ve been busy here at Wyndham Hall as our residents have been Crafting for Christmas. We have made a variety of things from Christmas Plates to Christmas Cards.

Our home is now all decorated and ready for Christmas.

Residents and staff at Hope Green have been busy making use of old magazines and making them into Christmas trees for every resident to have in their room. This was a real fun activity to do together and we're going to be looking at other ways of reusing and recycling in the future

A virtual trip to Germany to the Christmas Markets was a great way of spending the morning together at Hope Green. One of our residents was born and brought up in Germany and was thrilled to be able to show friends some places that have a special place in her heart.

We have some fine bakers here at Abingdon Court, so it's no surprise that our baking sessions go down so well with those that live here - and as we are entering the festive period, we simply had to make some mince pies!

The staff of Clarendon Court are all getting into the festive spirit, entertaining our residents with their own, very unique take on the traditional Nativity play.

Our notice activity notice board has been updated with Christmas cheer all around.

It is looking very festive and is getting our residents in the Christmas spirit.

We have been so fortunate here at The Hawthorns to receive some beautiful Christmas Cards from the Notre Dame Prep School. They have been hand made for our residents with some brilliant drawings and lovely hand writing.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at The Hawthorns. The residents helped decorate the trees for inside the home. Picking and choosing which baubles they wanted and which colours they preferred.

Bowerfield House have had a fantastic time decorating their home inside and out and its looking amazing and very Christmassy , we have made some snowman decorations and ceiling decorations , we talked about Christmas and it brought back happy memories from when their children were young .

Our chef Caitlin was overjoyed to win one hundred pounds worth of amazon vouchers on the MMCG's daily advent calendar giveaway. Staff have really enjoyed logging on each day to see whose name pops up among the winners. We are all very pleased to see Caitlin win.

We had a zoom carol service here at The Hawthorns, both staff and residents really enjoyed this.

Staff and residents of Clarendon Court wore it pink to raise funds for Breast Cancer Research and raised an amazing £116.30. Thank you to everyone who took part.

We have been hand decorating Christmas cards to send to families, we all love the craft workshops and celebrated our hard work with mince pies and mulled wine.