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.

Our residents made homemade lemonade last week. We squeezed fresh lemons and mixed the juice with water ice and sugar. We all really enjoyed this and they felt hydrated and refreshed.

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

We enjoyed decorating lanterns in lovely autumn colours to look like the leaves on the trees outside. Putting an electronic candle in them really made the colours pop!

It's great to see friendships at Hope Green and it's always a joy to bring the men together to chat, play games, and eat lunch. Today we explored some new books too which we loved chatting about. Topics of particular interest were The Titanic and The Suffragettes!

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.

We have been decorating around the home and Deepdene is very lucky to have staff team members with many skills like Adrian helping to put these beautiful vases on the flowers shop.

We are fortunate enough to have an ongoing relationship with 'Christchurch Abingdon'. Before COVID-19 put us into lockdown, we had regular visits from the group who enjoyed meeting and greeting those who live here and putting on a short service with hymns, readings, and prayers.

As Halloween approaches we started to make some Halloween fun crafts, like these beautiful little bats and pumpkins filled with sweets for our residents to enjoy.

We had a lovely afternoon In Deepdene, enjoying an afternoon of a Halloween themed sing along with Helen .