Here at Buckingham House we prepared to celebrate “It coming home”! Unfortunately no matter how much we cheered on our team we did not win!

However this did not dappen our spirits all our residents and staff enjoyed the evening watching the football with many decorations, treats and a wonderful atmosphere. We continued to celebrate the game as all our players did a wonderful job and really tried their best.

Fingers crossed for next time!

We are all incredibly proud of our England players for the performance they put on, both in the final and throughout the Euro 2020 tournament, despite being beaten in the final. Hopefully football will come home next year in the World Cup.

We've been enjoying decorating our own doughnuts here at Bowerfield Court. We chose from a variety of colours and toppings and enjoyed creating some masterpieces. We all agreed however that the very best part of the activity was eating them!

The very wonderful Mrs Marjorie Sheehy celebrated her 100th birthday recently and everyone at Eltandia joined together in celebrating this momentous day.

Marjorie, who spent many years working in the local theatre at Wimbledon, showed off her great elegance and sense of style for the occasion, dressed in a beautiful pink outfit and contrasting fascinator.

Birch Heath Lodge staff and residents enjoyed celebrating the first MMCG Carers Day. Staff loved the cakes and drinks and we thank the catering staff for their input to ensure that carers have a day where it is all about them.

Sadly, Football didn’t come home on Sunday night but England’s wonderful journey from 2018 when England got to the semi-final, in 2021 England got to the final. It only stands to reason that next time England are going to win it!

Wimbledon fever was reaching fever point as the Ladies Semi Finals were at the forefront of everyone’s minds at Ashmead.  To get the afternoon started people living and working at Ashmead gathered together in the bar to enjoy, strawberries, “bucks fizz” and scones.  Wimbledon is so local to us we are now counting down to finals weekend.

The regular quiz and afternoon tea event at Deepdene is always popular and encourages some friendly competition as well as plenty of laughs. 

Here at Appletree we have done some crafts and lots of other creative activities. The residents get lots of satisfaction in doing the projects as they do looking at the end product.
Residents helped make a cardboard cut-out into an ice cream van to go on one of our trollies.
On each floor the residents had the chance to paint the van a colour of the choice with help from staff.
This also gave residents time to reminisce about all the different ice creams they were able to get as kids from the ice cream van.
Everybody loved this activity!

To celebrate Euro 2021 here at Appletree we had a little history on the game and shared our memories. We asked our residents “Where were you in 1966?”
Some of the responses we got were:

“We had a little black and white television everybody in the street sat in our sitting room to watch the game.”

“We saved up all year for a camping trip to Wales, however when England got to the final my husband made his pack up and left so he could watch the football instead.”