Residents and staff at Windmill Care Centre paused their daily activities and joined together in 2 minutes of silence to remember and honour everyone who has served and lost their lives in conflict.  After this act of remembrance, a delicious selection of home made, beautifully decorated themed cakes were served to everyone

Last week we enjoyed our cookery club. Residents decided to make chutney this time. So we made a delicious apple chutney and they all enjoyed it with their cheese and biscuit for dinner.

Here at Highfield we are really enjoying flower arranging every week and create beautiful bouquets out of fresh flowers, which some of come from our Home garden!
We have been displaying them around the home. We are really happy about the results and everyone is enjoying looking at them.

The weekly armchair cruise is a very popular activity for the residents as many of our residents are so well travelled.

Catherine lives at Abingdon Court and is such a friendly and helpful lady.

She works alongside the staff team to prepare snacks such as cakes, biscuits and fruit and refreshments, which she then delivers to resident's rooms.  She is always available for a chat and is always full of joy.

Gillian is such a happy and delightful lady. Until recently she enjoyed a regular manicure and having her nails looking bright and colourful. Mona one of our fantastic Activity Coordinators arranged the ultimate salon experience, a hand pampering session for residents.  This included a gentle relaxing hand massage followed by nail painting if the resident so wished. 

We have lots of Halloween fun at Parksprings, with lots of events and dress up. Staff held a Halloween Ball, with food, drink, games and pumpkin carving. It was a great day for everyone. 

Exciting constructions are happening at Parksprings! We have a new log cabin in the grounds 'Rosie's Den'. Your can see it is nearing completion and we are all looking forward to using the cabin, particularly if Government guidelines allow us to use it for visits. 

Here we are getting ready for our Alexandra Court Halloween celebrations. Dorothy made our mummy light up jars, to display round the home. Residents did amazing job carving the pumpkins and Owen really got into his master piece. Everyone really enjoyed the afternoon and here's a picture with our carved pumpkins finished ready for our entertainment when all staff and residents will be dressed up.

We held an afternoon tea at Thorntree Mews, for our residents and had a lovely afternoon going through our letters and cards from "Postcards of Kindness". Since we joined at the beginning of lockdown we have received lots of letters and cards from all over. Today we replied to Eve who wrote to us from France and chatted about Eve renovating an old cottage there and how she is enjoying the slower pace of life. Eve is originally from Cardiff says she will send us some photos of their progress. The ladies really enjoyed today and would like to do it again soon.