Cedar Court Care Home was honoured to host The Cranleigh Poppy Appeal launch on Monday 25th October.   Trevor Cobby of the British Legion was in attendance together with Lance Corporal Tweddie-Smith and Private High from the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, “The Tigers”.

This year marks a hundred years of the poppy appeal and the fantastic work it does.

Sheila loved dressing Vicky our deputy manager up as a Mummy, she also told us to reuse the toilet paper as we may need it we are still in a pandemic after all.

In preparation for our Halloween Party and to celebrate National Pumpkin Day, our talented staffs and residents started doing the giant pumpkin carving. Amber Court’s Resident did the sketching, then the staff doing the carving after. It is a team effort after all. Everyone had fun and amazing time.

Residents and staff had a great time decorating our window in preparation for our Halloween party that we had on Friday. Residents really enjoyed our spooky celebrations.

Bowerfield House had a special visitor last week, our lovely and friendly scarecrow that we named Edward. All the residents loved our scarecrow and we proudly placed him outside at the main entrance to greet all of our visitors.

We talked about Halloween, witch craft and bonfire night plus Barry gave us a history lesson which we all found very interesting.

We had a lovely day and we all looked forward to our party day on Friday where we dressed up as witches and had some fireworks.

When we announced that we will be having a Halloween party in Amber Court, our residents and staff were very excited for it. We started preparing for the event through organizing a small activity with the residents and staff by carving pumpkins and making decorations. To be more festive for Halloween, we started to decorate the home as scary as possible. We decided it would be more fun to use one of the decorations as a representation of one of our staff, our maintenance, George.

We had lots of memories whilst sampling food and drink from the Agean . It was a lovely afternoon enjoyed by all. 

Here at Abbey View we really like to get into the Halloween spirit. 

Bowerfield House had a great day celebrating Halloween. We had a firework display and sparkles overseen by our maintenance man George, residents and staff watched from the conservatory. We made some ghosts by decorating some milk containers, drawing faces on them and putting glow sticks inside them, they looked fabulous, very effective . A great end to a fantastic busy week at Bowerfield House.

Look how we turned these into a little mummy doll. Joan, one of our residents, really enjoyed doing this with her fellow residents and staff.