Leonard, Owen and Joan out in the sunshine today. Listening, singing and joining in with the dance moves with our lovely Kerry who came to sing for us today. Our residents enjoyed the sing-a-long and to keep cool  we had an ice lolly to finish off the afternoon.  

Here at Abingdon Court, being part of the community in which we all live and work is very important to us. We support many local community organisations and last week our focus was on the wonderful dementia friendly café just up the road from us, run by Dementia Friends Abingdon.

The smiles were back for the return of Andy T .

Andy has been entertaining the residents and staff of Brunel House for the last 6 years. He's so popular her used to visit once a month.

The excitement was clear to see for some.

Our regular tea time quiz is getting very competitive.  The three teams, the Wise Quacks, Agatha Quiztie and Les Quizerables went head to head with The Wise Quacks coming out on top, this time.

Peter, Val, Ellie, Mary, Kate, Janna, Terri and David had an absolute blast!

It's not just our families and friends that we like to check in on.  Sometimes we like to catch up and have a little bit of time with our pets who love us unconditionally. They recognise our voices and they bring so much happiness.

We held a 'life style day' for our residents, which means brushing, folding laundry, dusting or knitting, after discussion the general feeling was to have a knitting day. Some great results and hard concentration. An enjoyable activity that everyone who took part enjoyed. 

Games afternoon started with Bingo, Cards and Domino's. Mona, Dorothy and Owen enjoyed the games afternoon, they had a lovely tea and cake break. 

Our most requested activity are music and quizzes. This week brought smiles to our quizzers faces when we held our 'Who wants to be a millionaire quiz' this is run as the TV programme, lots of discussion to get the right answer, this time we got to the £500,000 question...but it was the wrong answer. We all loved the afternoon, next time we'll hopefully get the million. 

To the activities team, 

Thank you so very much for all your care. The Skype calls were precious. We know Dad enjoyed the activities you all provided. Pedro, you are amazing.

Kind Regards, J&M

We celebrated International Nurses Day on Wednesday 12th May. We presented to all of the nurses a fob watch as a nice way to show them how proud we are of their work and dedication to our residents. Kitchen staff baked a delicious cake that was served with sandwiches, salad, crisps and drinks for everyone to enjoy.