The team at Cedar Court love to get dressed up to entertain the people living at the home with their “Glee” style singing concerts. For Burns Night, they donned Scottish dress and produced an inspired program that featured a concert as well as some traditional Scottish refreshments.

The residents created beautiful flower arrangements that were displayed all around Allingham House, adding a splash of colour in our home. It was the perfect opportunity to reminisce with our residents about their favourite flowers and flower arrangements made for specials occasions. The most popular ones were of course their weeding bouquets.

Ladies and gents enjoy a meal out at one of their favourite restaurants. The time went so fast as we laughed and chatted amongst ourselves when we realised we had been sat there for 4 hours. Time really does fly when you are having fun.

Residents were given the choice to write a personal biography about their lives or choose a famous person. The laptops were out for use and some spent considerable time discovering the lives of their idols. Rock Hudson, Mother Teresa, Shirley Bassey and Roy Orbison to name a few.

Residents spent an afternoon still drawing. All designs were beautifully presented with bright bold colours and these masterpieces have been displayed around the home.

In preparation for last weekend’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, we have been busy creating our own birds in readiness .

Like thousands of people across the UK, we spent some time counting the different species of birds that we see in our garden, including our very own colourful feathered varieties .

A selection of wine and cheese from around the world - what more could you want.!

Over 25 of the people living with us joined the party and gave their critiques. It was a most enjoyable time and all of us are very much looking forward to the next soiree.

Craft Club is a great way for our residents to meet together, catch up on conversations, and get creative. Preparing blue and white bunting in readiness for our Burns Night celebrations and choosing pictures of Scotland which were meaningful to us was so much fun. Memories of Robert Burns poetry and Scottish dancing from school days brought together a lovely display in our conservatory area for everyone to enjoy.

We celebrated "Burns night" in true Scottish Style this week, first we had a traditional burns night supper with both meat and vegetarian haggis accompanied with neeps ,tatties and of course washed down with iron bru. We listened to a poetry recital , completed a quiz and took a look back at the life of Robert Burns .

This ended with a good old Scottish sing a a long and our very own hilarious version of "Donald where's your trousers " We all had great fun and a good old giggle.