Castleford House

Today we went out for a little trip and travelled down to Caldicot!We went to the town centre, where we visited one of our favourite ice-cream shops, Jones’ sundaes & shakes. Both gentleman chose a sundae – one chose Milky-bar and the other chose salted caramel. One of the residents said that his ice-cream was…

Over the past two days we have created our own ice cream! All the residents have worked together to create homemade ice-cream for everyone at Castleford to try! A few of the residents decided they wanted to make salted caramel flavoured ice-cream and used carnation caramel and rock salt as ingredients! One resident insisted on…

We have been super busy here getting our sensory garden ready for its grand opening. As you can see in the photos, what a fantastic transformation! Some of the people living at Castleford have been really helpful in creating our sensory area and have worked really hard to get it where is today, but we…

2020 tested our skills as lifestyles coordinators. With everything locking down and many restrictions on who we could let into our home, it meant that connections to the outside world became virtual, which was quite alien to a lot of our residents. We decided to reach out to people in an old fashioned, but very…

We have had our first BBQ of the year! We have sat together outside and enjoyed the the warmth of the sun and the incredible smell the BBQ lets off, all whilst sipping on our homemade cocktails. We have indulged on a variety of BBQ food this afternoon, the homemade burgers went down well with…

Today we have treated both of our ladies to lunch out at The Star On The Hill, Llanfihangel. We managed to avoid the rain and enjoy our afternoon out in the sunshine whilst admiring the scenic views The Star has to offer. One resident chose beer battered haddock and chips for her main and then…

At Castleford we are always striving to make sure people living here have the most comfortable stay. Mary, who joined us in February, said that she greatly missed her holidays and time spent in Australia. So on Thursday we decided to throw Mary an Australian afternoon tea party! We decorated our Severn Lounge with Australian…

We have had our first trip of the year to the beach! And where else to go but our favourite beach – Barry Island! We spent the afternoon in the sunshine indulging on fish, chips and ice cream whilst admiring the beautiful views Barry has to offer! We took full advantage of our time at…

Today, we celebrated ‘National Wine Day’. Even though this is traditionally only celebrated in America, we couldn’t resist joining in on this celebration! To commemorate the day we have created a charcuterie board and sampled some Merlot, Rosé and Chardonnay. Our charcuterie board was made up of salamis, chorizo and cheese! Elsie said that the…