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!!

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.

Karen, one of our lovely Lifestyles Co-ordinators visiting Resurrected Bites to deliver some food donations for their community cafe in Knaresborough and receiving these gorgeous daffodils for our residents. Thank you so much.

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.

We celebrated Valentines day at the home and our residents had a lovely time. First we designed our table mats which we printed off and laminated ready to set the tables, we then made valentines day cards for all of our residents which Doreen and I delivered in the morning. When it was near lunch time we set our tables with our Valentines day Theme and served a lovely glass of Non Alcoholic wine or beer with their lunch.

We celebrated opening of our newly decorated hair salon with a glass of Prosecco for all of our customers.

Carol one of our Senior Carers and Chantal Kennedy, the hairdresser can be seen popping the cork.

At Ashfield Court we celebrated Shove Tuesday and St David's Day! This morning we had some lovely cake and had a 'talk about the history of shove Tuesday!' Then at lunch time the lovely Celia tossed a pancake up in the air 20 times! We then served the residents lovely warm pancakes with all different toppings!

Residents and staff have joined this week to the celebrations of LGTB+ History Month. We started the week, playing a Quiz, exploring and learning a little bit more about important members of the community that have a close relationship with Manchester like Alan Turin.

Also, residents and staff had the opportunity to be creative. They took pencils, scissors and glue to create a beautiful collage with plenty of rainbows and messages. It was the perfect opportunity to share experiences and reminisce about how much society has changed throughout the years.

We enjoyed a visit from Falconry UK recently, which enabled us to get really close to some of these amazing birds, as well as seeing some really rare species.

Their handler gave us a really informative talk as he presented the birds individually to us, it was a great experience for everyone.

A musical recital from Charlotte and Emma, clarinet duo from Wiltshire Rural Music ensured a really special day for one of our residents who was also celebrating their birthday. A beautiful rendition of Happy Birthday on the clarinet was a wonderful surprise and everyone really enjoyed listening to their beautiful music.

We were also joined by Chris Webb, guitarist and vocalist. Some of our residents joined along with the songs, with instruments gifted by Wiltshire Rural Music .