We had Valentine's Celebrations for our lovely couple here in the home, Trevor and Justine, we had special decorations, chocolates and a lovely meal with valentines cake to finish. We also had Roger who came to sing for us, all the residents loved the day!

What a fantastic turn out for our Drive Through Coffee and Cake, the chef had been very busy making fairy cakes iced with an edible butterfly.  During few weeks we have been out to visit the local businesses, shops and emergency services inviting them to the Drive Through. 
After all the storms in the last few days we were blessed with blue skies.

The people who live at Kents Hill have really been enjoying their cookie decorating session at the home and so have the team that have been supporting them.  There were some really lovely patterns made and of course everyone got to enjoy one with a lovely cup of tea after. 

It is without a shadow of a doubt that all that live here at Abingdon Court have such fantastic life stories to share, and many find comfort from reminiscing about these times.

Using books by Pictures to Share which come in a variety of themes, we are able to jog our memories and access stories from the past which might not have been in the forefront of our minds. We are all better off from hearing other people’s experiences and perspectives of the world.

It's smiles all around with our Oomph sessions, and we're always trying to introduce new and fun ways to keep the sessions fresh and exciting - our new prop this week came in the form of ribbons on a stick!

Everybody bobbed away to different songs, including Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw - even if joining in wasn't for you, everybody in the room was humoured and it was smiles all around.

Earlier in the week we celebrated St David's Day. We made Daffodils using green straws and yellow tissues. We talked about holidays to Wales and our favourite places to visit there. We had a giggle at attempting to say the very long name in Welsh. And finally we enjoyed some songs from the Welsh Male Voice Choir. Bread of Heaven was a winner!!

Our residents enjoyed pancake day this week and tucked into a nice pancake topping of their choice.

We have started to donate to Ukraine, both the staff and the residents wanted to participate in this donation. The residents wanted to donate because they saw the newspaper article from the local Norwich, West Earlham Polish Community, and also on the TV. Some of the staff members at our Hawthorns Care Home are Polish so donating to Ukraine means a lot to them.

Residents are choosing books to read from a selection brought in for National Book day. On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK is given a voucher to be spent on books; the event was first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1995.

Some of our residents enjoy reading and become quite engrossed in books.

A lovely sunny day for our pancake race, staff were feeling competitive and raring to go. With residents joining in too for a walking race and spectating, enjoying the fresh air and sunshine. We care about having fun and taking the opportunity to laugh with friends.