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This year Knights Court celebrated Diwali in style!  Diwali or Deepavali is one of the biggest and auspicious festivals celebrated by Hindus all around the globe.

Diwali Celebrations
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Buckingham House was filled with poppies for Remembrance Day 2021. Everyone who lives with us played their part in remembering those we have lost.

A moving day had by all.

Lest We Forget
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One of our gentlemen paying his respects on Remembrance Sunday.

Remembrance Sunday
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A taste testing session this morning for National Bread Day. It went down well with all!

National Bread Day
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Man of the match Kody Bentley. Another amazing performance from Pogmoor under 11's captain and the whole team, winning 4-2.  Midfielder Ali also need a special mention, he was like a machine. They are now through to the semi-finals of the Cup next Sunday. Keep it up boys.

Good Luck Pogmoor Under 11's
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Today we are celebrating our head chef (Douglas)'s 50th birthday. Happy  Birthday from Residents & Staff at Ashfield Court.

Douglas's 50th Birthday
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This week has been really exciting our residents have been really busy. They have enjoyed a good pamper getting facials, manicures and have enlightened their day by listening to the power of music. Our lovely residents got physical in get fit exercise, where we did head to toe exercises.

Weekly Blog 1/11/21- 5/11/21
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Bowerfield House worked hard on getting the home ready for Remembrance Sunday. We decorated the house inside and out, painted pebbles red and black and made a piece of art for the garden.

Remembrance Day at Bowerfield House
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To recognise Remembrance Day, the people living at Woodlands created beautiful poppy decorations which were displayed in the lounge.

World Kindness Day & Remembrance Day
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Last week our residents enjoyed the company of our hairdresser.

Hairdressing at Water Royd
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We wanted to recognise Remembrance at Brunel House and we hosted a 1940s day.

Remembrance at Brunel
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Two of the favourite events we enjoy at Brunel is the evening pub quiz. Lots of people who live at Brunel like to participate and all enjoy a social chat over a drink once the quiz ended.

Activities at Brunel
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In preparation of Remembrance Day, those living with us at Wyndham Hall enjoyed crafting poppies and spending time talking about the different roles they did during the war.

Lest We Forget
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Some more photos of the amazingly spooky ghostly decorations that the people living with us at Wyndham Hall made to celebrate Halloween around our home.

Ghosts Ahoy!
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To celebrate Halloween, many of the people living with us at River View decorated pumpkins with spooky faces and coloured in some themed pictures that we displayed across the home for everyone to enjoy.

Halloween Arts & Crafts
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Staff at River View Care Home took a moment to quietly remember and pay tribute to all of those who have served in the armed services.

Lest We Forget.
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At Knights Court we had our own ‘Spooktacular’ Halloween party with the people living with us along with staff dressing up for the occasion.

Spooktacular Halloween Party
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We celebrated Halloween at Knights Court by trying our hand at carving Pumpkins and here is the fruit of our efforts 🎃’

Pumpkin Carving
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We had such a fantastic trip to Flowerland in Bourne End last week. Our residents who came on the with us each chose a beautiful pot plant to give to their loved ones. They were amazed at the variety of colours and varieties of plants on display.

Blooming Marvellous
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Buckingham House was filled with Halloween antics recently

Goulish Celebrations
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Our lovely residents who live with us at Buckingham House were treated to an exciting trip to Fulmer Riding Therapy School. They were introduced to Freddie one of the horses at the school and were taught how to care for him.

Fulmer Riding Therapy School
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For this years Armistice Day everyone at Birch Heath Lodge participated in two minutes silence to pay respect for all those who served in the armed forces.

It was a touching moment to see everyone come together and show their admiration and support.

Armistice Day at Birch Heath
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Food tasting at Hope Green was a real fun activity session and we're looking forward to doing more of these as our residents and staff are absolutely loving them. Seasonal apples were sliced and tasted along with chocolate, golden syrup, sprinkles and sunflower seeds.

Food Tasting
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Our lovely residents enjoyed our get fit exercise in the afternoon, this included full body exercises with Pom Poms. This activity was really enjoyed, one lady quoted “we needed this” after the exercises they enjoyed a nice cup of tea.

Get Fit Exercise
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A morning of reflection on Remembrance Day was a great way to celebrate peace and what that looks like in our world today. Residents and staff enjoyed poppy crafts and putting together displays of remembrance through the home.

Remembrance Day at Hope Green
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There's nothing like a brisk winter walk to blow the autumn cobwebs away, especially when you know there is a hot chocolate waiting for you when you get back.

Winter Walk
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Our residents loved designing our remembrance day displays, they knitted poppies for the display in reception and coloured and cut out the poppies for our main display in the residents lounge.

Remembrance Day Display
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Today is Remembrance Day. Everyone in Amber Court take a moment of time to give honour and respect to all the people who have been part of World War. We’ve done this by taking time of silence, activities and artworks with the residents to commemorate our heroes.

Remembrance Day at Amber Court
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Nigel Harmer, maintenance man at Abbey View, was very kind and proud to show us today his beautiful and very mindful medals. Remembrance Day- Lest We Forget

Remembrance Day at Abbey View
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Today a group of residents made some dough sculptures. They added scents to them to engage the senses and added parts of leaves and plants to decorate them and to make a link to nature at a time of year when it’s not so easy to get outside.

Dough Sculptures
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Our lovely residents enjoyed bingo afternoon in the lounge, they enjoyed 3 games of bingo, we played for a line and then a full house on both games, everyone was really happy to be involved and was concentrating on the numbers so they didn't miss any, warm and cold drinks of their choice were ser

Bingo
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Some of our lovely residents enjoyed one to one activity's, we had a lovely chat and giggle, during the one to one our residents had a photo shoot. One of our ladies in the photographs enjoyed a nice facial and was really happy and quoted "it is nice to get a pamper"

Photo Shoot at Water Royd
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We had a great afternoon dipping fruit in the chocolate fountain!

Chocolate Tasting
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Firework Rockets!! Our lovely residents made some fantastic firework rockets today using a card roll, pipe cleaners, star stickers and a few other resources. They had such a giggle trying to peel and stick the stars down, the quote of the activity was "where's my star gone?

Bonfire Night Arts and Crafts
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At Hope Green the residents enjoyed creating beautiful artwork for bonfire night, exploring the changing colours of magical scratch art to draw some spectacular fireworks.

Bonfire Night Artwork
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The lovely people who live at The Hawthorns made some finger print painted poppies which we turned into a field of poppies to remember and honour those who fell whilst defending our freedoms and protecting our way of life.  This is pride place when entering the home for everyone to see; staf

Remembrance Day at The Hawthorns
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It was a most enjoyable afternoon at Ashmead for Peggy's 100th birthday.  In addition to a birthday card from Queen Elizabeth 11 the home’s chef prepared a special birthday cake and staff and fellow residents helped celebrate the occasion by singing happy birthday to Peggy.

100th birthday celebrations at Ashmead
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On Sugar Awareness Day, we chatted about sugar and its origin, we then played the game * how many teaspoons of sugar *  in a number of food items.

We had a lot of fun as always.

Sugar Awareness Day at Deepdene
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What is Halloween without pumpkins?  We set to work at Deepdene creating the most fantastic pumpkins.  Its was so much fun.

Pumpkin Carving at Deepdene
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The recent Halloween party at Deepdene was amazing. The staff team gave everyone living in the home their best Halloween catwalk show.  There were prizes for the best dressed ghouls or witches with some well-deserved prizes.

Halloween Fun at Deepdene
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New decorations at Abbey View, a lot of red poppies all around so we can commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts,

Remembrance Day at Abbey View
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On Bonfire night Guy Fawkes visited all of our residents who thought he was great.  He even enjoyed a game of bingo and handed out prizes before he visited people in their rooms.

Visit From Guy Fawkes
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This year we held a masquerade ball for Halloween. Residents spent lots of time creating their masks and costumes prior to the day. There was live entertainment from Andy T, we all had an absolute blast.

Masquerade Ball at Brunel
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Bowerfield House have the most amazing staff , I'm very lucky to have a great work family. One of our staff on house keeping arrived this morning with a little gift for everyone, a wooden heart friendship message and and a mental health jigsaw friends keyring.

Act Of Kindness On Stress Awareness Day
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Allingham House is an international environment where people all around the world work together giving the best of themselves to deliver the best caring assistance to our residents. For that reason, we like to include our residents on popular festivals in other countries.

Diwali Festival at Allingham House
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Our ladies enjoyed being tattooed with spooky characters for the day!

A beer made the process pain free!

Halloween Tattoos and Beer!
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Our selection of our home made Halloween cakes.   

Halloween Cakes
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This year for Halloween the home and residents decided to turn the reception area into a spooky spiders lair. Everyone gave their opinions and added their artistic fair to the decorating around the home.

Halloween Decorations at Birch Heath
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For the Halloween Party we had Entertainment from one of our regular Entertainers. The kitchen team created a Halloween lunch and made a Halloween high tea with spooky cakes and desserts for everyone to enjoy. We also played Games and finished the day with a bit of karaoke.

Halloween Party at Birch Heath
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These are our pumpkins we carved for the Morrisons competition. We chose the sugar skull and the witch.

Pumpkin Competition
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