October 2020 – Milkwood Care Limited

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

This year, Braeburn Lodge wanted to celebrate Halloween in style and spread some magical cheer. The activities team decorated the reception and dining room to create a ‘spooktacular’ atmosphere, including spider bunting, jack o’ lanterns and spooky ghosts hanging from the ceiling. Even the staff donned their scariest costumes – don’t you think Amanda and…

Happy Halloween!

The day we were waiting for all week finally arrived! Happy Halloween everyone! To celebrate 31st October, we made some frightening treats and dressed up to get into the spirit. What do you think of these ghoulish drinks and snacks? One afternoon, the people we care for all enjoyed a movie afternoon. Continuing with our…

Halloween

Just because there is a pandemic, it did not stop all of us at Chatterwood having fun on Halloween. Obviously, the day was different from previous years when we could invite relatives, friends and children to join us. We decorated the house, and it looked amazing, nothing was going to stop Chatterwood celebrating Halloween.The day…

A Fruity Cauldron

Here are some of our residents enjoying a Halloween teatime treat. Joyce, Celia, Ros, Denise, Margaret, Tom and Joss all tucked in to this spooky fruit salad punch. It tasted much better than it looked, with those scary eyes and worm sweets.

Pumpkin Prepping

Residents enjoyed Halloween arts, crafts and pumpkin carving. Barbara, Muriel and Jim helped Jordan design carved pumpkins ready for October 31st and Barbara and Gill painted hand moulds for the home’s spooky celebrations.

Halloween Party!

Here we can see the residents enjoying their brilliant Halloween party. Spooky games were played and gruesome food was eaten!

Halloween

We enjoyed some pumpkin carving as part of our Halloween celebrations. Some of us dressed up as witches, too!

Halloween Party

WOW! What can we say, we had such a fantastic afternoon at our annual Halloween party! We enjoyed dressing up in spooky costumes, sensory freaky feel boxes and indulged in an amazing buffet! Staff and residents all joined in the fun and despite COVID-19 changing our traditional ways of partying, we still had an absolute…

Bubble sensory time

Our regular bubble sensory sessions have been thoroughly enjoyed by all of our wonderful residents. Some choose to watch the colourful bubbles float in the air, whilst others like reaching out to pop a few! Pictured here are David and Ashley playing the classic game of connect four, we all enjoy watching the interaction and…

Post Pampering

Here’s a few of our ladies looking lovely after having their hair done! Pat Breakwell, Kath Parker and Gina are looking very happy about their new locks!