Castleford House

Today we have celebrated Earth Day, which is an international event celebrated around the world to pledge support for environmental protection. To honour this day we have an had an Earth-themed afternoon tea, which has been very colour coordinated! We enjoyed homemade cake and biscuits. Some of the people living at Castleford have helped make…

Back by popular demand, today we have held cheese tasting! We have had seven difference cheeses to taste and score. These were; Cheddar with garlic and herb, coastal cheddar bite, Mexican hot, aged Red Leicester, five counties cheese, port wine derby and caramelised red onion cheddar! To accompany the cheese tasting we have had a…

Over the weekend we decided to put our culinary skills to use and create some cake jars and mini sponges. We chose what flavours to use and combined the ingredients. One resident chose salted caramel, another chose raspberry ripple, one chose lemon curd and another resident chose chocolate. We used cake cutters to create our…

Castleford House and everyone associated with us was extremely saddened by the news that Prince Philip passed away.This week, to commemorate him, we had a lunch with Greek-inspired food, the country he was born in and British food, where he lived for most of his life. We used traditional Greek feta cheese as our main…

Today we have been very fortunate and the majority of people living at Castleford House received their second dose of the COVID vaccine this afternoon. Similar to the first dose, we did not get a lot of warning that this would happen (approximately five hours) but we have been prepared for this monumental event for…

Today we welcomed back Paula Francis to help transform some of our ladies and gents! We have had a day full of pampering! With cuts, sets and blowdries, which the everyone thoroughly enjoyed! When their ‘new do’ was complete, we passed them the mirror so they could admire their new look – we had some…

Today we have watched the Grand National races! We have followed the Aintree races on television and the Chepstow races online! We have created some ‘Milkwood Money’ for people to place their bets. Two of the ladies won on the 2nd race and Megan won on the 3rd race.We have, of course, watched the races…

We are extremely grateful for the beautiful weather we have had recently and have throughly enjoyed the benefits of Spring, with some sunny afternoons and lighter evenings! So, this week, we have focussed on what our favourite thing about spring is. We have created some spring bunting to display in the home where we have…

We like to say a massive thank you to Anita Phillips for buying tickets for the home for the Bradford Buses raffle, where the prize was some beautiful train planters!We were lucky enough to win the raffle and have the ‘Aneurin Bevan’ train for a main feature in our garden! People went outside to see…

Happy Easter everyone – we hope you’ve had as good a day as us! We have started our celebrations with an Easter-themed buffet. This included a Mini Egg cheesecake that we made ourselves, an Easter bunny fruit platter and lots of other delicious food. This afternoon we had an Easter egg hunt in the garden…