As part of our Summer Armchair Travel series, we all boarded Abingdon Airlines to take a tour of France!

We enjoyed some French bread with some classic soft French cheeses, washed down with a gorgeously refreshing French white wine. We enjoyed the sounds of traditional a French accordion as we imagined cruising down the river Seine.

At a recent painting session, themed on the changing colours of Autumn , everyone had fun painting trees and some of our group even mixed it up a bit by adding buttons, with spectacular results.

We recently all celebrated the birthday of the lovely Connie, who was so amazed by her cake and was super grateful it brought her to tears. Sometimes it’s the small things that makes peoples day and we all had a fantastic day celebrating.

Here at Abingdon Court we believe it is important to keep engaged with the local community. We have had great pleasure working with a local dementia café run by Dementia Friendly Abingdon, who do great work with those living with dementia in the local area. To raise money, we held  a 'Denim For Dementia Day’, asking staff to donate £1 to wear their favourite denim and everyone living at Abingdon was encouraged to wear denim also! We managed to raise £50 for the charity and are delighted to be able to help out such a fantastic local cause.

We recently celebrated the 100th Birthday of our wonderful resident Joyce with cards, presents, celebration buffet and birthday cake. One of the day’s highlights, was watching Joyce open her very special birthday card received from Her Majesty the Queen.

Happy 100th birthday Joyce from all at Wyndham Hall.

Today at Buckingham House, we commemorated Apollo 11's first landing on the moon 52 years ago!

Our residents had a great time meeting 'Neil Armstrong', a space quiz and watching the actual landing 52 years ago on television. It brought back a lot of memories for our residents and with that a lot to talk about.

Part of our Nutrition and Hydration - Appletree Court celebrated Cocktails and fruits party! Our residents loved this activity watching the staff Hola hoop and limbo dancing, all different cocktails and fruit were enjoyed, it felt like we were on holiday. Hula skirts and garlands were made by residents, and we had a good old sing-along, it's good to have a happy hour any time!

Here at Buckingham House we prepared to celebrate “It coming home”! Unfortunately no matter how much we cheered on our team we did not win!

However this did not dappen our spirits all our residents and staff enjoyed the evening watching the football with many decorations, treats and a wonderful atmosphere. We continued to celebrate the game as all our players did a wonderful job and really tried their best.

Fingers crossed for next time!

The very wonderful Mrs Marjorie Sheehy celebrated her 100th birthday recently and everyone at Eltandia joined together in celebrating this momentous day.

Marjorie, who spent many years working in the local theatre at Wimbledon, showed off her great elegance and sense of style for the occasion, dressed in a beautiful pink outfit and contrasting fascinator.

Sadly, Football didn’t come home on Sunday night but England’s wonderful journey from 2018 when England got to the semi-final, in 2021 England got to the final. It only stands to reason that next time England are going to win it!