New decorations at Abbey View, a lot of red poppies all around so we can commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts,

Thank you, The Royal British Legion, for leaving us poppies so we can all have a opportunity to donate. Remembrance Day- Lest We Forget

Bowerfield House have the most amazing staff , I'm very lucky to have a great work family. One of our staff on house keeping arrived this morning with a little gift for everyone, a wooden heart friendship message and and a mental health jigsaw friends keyring. Such a lovely thing to do , it cheered all the staff up and was very much appreciated.

Allingham House is an international environment where people all around the world work together giving the best of themselves to deliver the best caring assistance to our residents. For that reason, we like to include our residents on popular festivals in other countries. A perfect opportunity for the residents to enjoy different activities and learn a bit more about different traditions in other cultures.

This year for Halloween the home and residents decided to turn the reception area into a spooky spiders lair. Everyone gave their opinions and added their artistic fair to the decorating around the home.

For the Halloween Party we had Entertainment from one of our regular Entertainers. The kitchen team created a Halloween lunch and made a Halloween high tea with spooky cakes and desserts for everyone to enjoy. We also played Games and finished the day with a bit of karaoke.

These are our pumpkins we carved for the Morrisons competition. We chose the sugar skull and the witch.

Giving it a little 'Oomph'.  Another Oomph wellness class in action! We just love getting our 'Oomph' on each and every week to support the enhancement of mental, physical and emotional wellbeing through innovative exercise and activity solutions.  We strive to enable those living with us to live life to the full. We have one life, so let's give it some Oomph!.

Here at Troutbeck we held a big celebration for Halloween and we were delighted with our Halloween display.

We had fun embellishing our pumpkins, we decided to make them sparkly and glamorous. Norma enjoyed jazzing up the pumpkins, she is always a great sport and enjoys getting involved at any opportunity.

Our window display for Remembrance Day.

We also have poppies available at reception for residents, relatives and staff to donate to.

Bowerfield House had another great fun day celebrating hug a bear day, staff and residents loved giving our massive teddy bear Ted a big hug.

Ted the teddy bear made everyone smile and cheered every one up. Ted was all hugged up and later went for an afternoon nap.

Bowerfield House had a busy week and are looking forward to next weeks activities.