There's nothing like a brisk winter walk to blow the autumn cobwebs away, especially when you know there is a hot chocolate waiting for you when you get back.

Our residents loved designing our remembrance day displays, they knitted poppies for the display in reception and coloured and cut out the poppies for our main display in the residents lounge.

One of our residents researched the names of the different battles and enjoyed typing them on the laptop and printing them out for the display.

Today is Remembrance Day. Everyone in Amber Court take a moment of time to give honour and respect to all the people who have been part of World War. We’ve done this by taking time of silence, activities and artworks with the residents to commemorate our heroes.

Today a group of residents made some dough sculptures. They added scents to them to engage the senses and added parts of leaves and plants to decorate them and to make a link to nature at a time of year when it’s not so easy to get outside.

Our lovely residents enjoyed bingo afternoon in the lounge, they enjoyed 3 games of bingo, we played for a line and then a full house on both games, everyone was really happy to be involved and was concentrating on the numbers so they didn't miss any, warm and cold drinks of their choice were served during bingo afternoon.

Some of our lovely residents enjoyed one to one activity's, we had a lovely chat and giggle, during the one to one our residents had a photo shoot. One of our ladies in the photographs enjoyed a nice facial and was really happy and quoted "it is nice to get a pamper"

We had a great afternoon dipping fruit in the chocolate fountain!

At Hope Green the residents enjoyed creating beautiful artwork for bonfire night, exploring the changing colours of magical scratch art to draw some spectacular fireworks.

On Sugar Awareness Day, we chatted about sugar and its origin, we then played the game * how many teaspoons of sugar *  in a number of food items.

We had a lot of fun as always.

What is Halloween without pumpkins?  We set to work at Deepdene creating the most fantastic pumpkins.  Its was so much fun.