Joan, Rosemary and Dorothy, our fab girls Sarah and Gina, the Bluebird entertainment sang for us to celebrate VE Day. The residents really enjoyed singing along with the English favourite songs. 

We had a lovely surprise today at Belmont House, our local charity Resurrected Bites dropped by with some beautiful flowers for our resident - such lovely colours, we will be doing some beautiful arrangements with the help of our residents for their rooms. Thank you so much from residents and staff at Belmont House. 

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The creativity and artistic talents of the people who live at Cedar Court continues to amaze us all. This person who created this beautiful piece lives with dementia. It's all part of the ongoing work at Cedar Court to support people living with dementia to express themselves through their love of art. 

We spent the morning arranging flowers to put around our home. We chose sunflowers and some lovely purple, pink and white flowers to brighten up our day. A very lovely and relaxing activity to do especially whilst listening to Jazz music. 

We would like to thank one of our nurses Jeff who's dad breeds budges and let us have 2 for our home. Two new welcome additions to our family at Bowerfield House. Introducing The Royals Elizabeth and Phillip, we are all excited about the new arrivals and our residents love watching them. I'm sure they will bring lots of conversation and joy to our home. 

Today we celebrated National Nurses Day with a range of activities. It was lovely to see the joy on the residents' faces after our poetry reading and pride in their own handiwork, whether that was colouring in, puzzle solving or writing and thanking a nurse they know. 

The residents enjoyed last Friday, a garden party to celebrate St George's Day. The garden was decorated with buntings and England flags and Samantha Jones, one of our regular singers, performed for the residents a selection of English greatest hits. Cold drinks and snacks were served meanwhile the residents enjoyed singing their favourite snacks.  

We are over the moon about our Easter competition win! Hope Green residents and staff not only had a great time over the Easter weekend celebrations but now also get the chance to celebrate again with a lovely prize of a Sharing Hamper and a certificate. We'll now be on the search for a frame for our certificate and choosing a special place to display it for everyone to see. Well done Hope Green. 

We finished off our 'Earth' themed month with a trip around the world. We paired up flags and capital cities with their respective countries and them looked for those countries on our inflatable globe. 

We held an international jazz day on Friday and played some great jazz music and indulged in producing art, whether it was jazz related or just paint from the heart in the ambiance of the music. One of our residents excelled and really enjoyed producing a piece that any artist would be proud of. Well done all those who took part.