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Special points of interest:

Upcoming events

Bonfire Night

Halloween

Remembrance Day

Christmas

New Year

Eclipse

Inside this issue:

Issue 2—April 2015

Spring Edition

Autumn and Winter Fun! 1

The Old Vicarage 2

Staverton House 3

Longbridge Deverill House 4

Longbridge Deverill Nursing Home 5

Upcoming Events at All Homes 6

Fun for You! 7

We had a busy time during the Christmas period with lots of visitors. Bradford on Avon Bap-tist Church Choir came to sing some lovely Christmas Carols and did a few beautiful readings.

We ventured back to Victorian England with a traditional Father

Christmas. He and his helpers bought along some nostalgic items to take our residents back in time. We also learned that Fa-ther Christmas was originally dressed in green robes until Coca-Cola branded him and changed it to red robes, to match their logo.

We had an outing to Whitehall Garden Centre where they had a beautifully deco-rated Christmas walk through, where you can buy unique Christmas decorations. They also have an ice rink at Christmas time, our residents really

enjoyed watching people skating, followed by a tra-dition Cream Tea.

On Christmas morning we had a surprise visit from Father Christmas who came to share gifts with our residents. Everyone was very happy to see him.

We had 2 celebrations this year. The residents enjoyed a first class Christmas party in Decem-ber and a lively belated New Years party in January.

We all enjoyed the Musical won-ders of Mike and Muriel, who now come to visit on a regular

basis as the residents loved their per-formance so much.

The Old Vicarage

Christmas & New Year Party

‘Hilpertons Lovely War’ and Remembrance Day

men who fought for our country. We had poppy’s on sale as we do every year. All residents bought one and wore it over the remem-brance period.

Most of our residents remember the war and what it was like to live in those times so it is important to them that it is remembered.

Our Activities Co-ordinator, Lesley McNamee took 6 of our residents to go and see a musical being performed at Hilperton Village Hall—’Hilperton’s Lovely War.’

Hilperton’s Lovely War was based on Joan Littlewood’s ‘Oh What A Lovely War’, but excellent work by director Pam Turner means it includes facts about the men from the village who died in the conflict and are remembered on the Church Street war me-morial. They sang songs from the original musical but it was really a great homage to those

We had a very

generous

donation to our

staff fund this

year so would

like to Thank all

our Residents

and their

families for their

continued

support and

generosity.

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‘I have already

recommended this

home to a number of

people, because the

food is good, the

staff are cheerful,

patient and gentle.

It runs smoothly and

efficiently. I have

never heard a bad

word about it from

anyone’

(a recommendation

made on

carehome.co.uk)

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Christmas Festivities!!

Steve Chudley at Lyrics on Screen still comes in on a monthly basis to entertain the residents of The Old Vicarage and across our other 3 homes as well. Not only did our resi-dents enjoy the parties, their friends and families did too.

Everybody was welcome to join in the fun.

We were very lucky this year to have Dave & Ewe visit us. We had lots of lovely ani-mals join us

in our garden and fortunately we had a nice dry day.

We had Alpaca’s, ducks, sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens, ponies and the list goes on.

It was lovely to see the resi-dents get up close and personal

with animals that they may not have interacted with before.

Our residents really appreciated the experience.

Even our less mobile residents got to enjoy some animal fun as the organizers were kind enough to bring some of the smaller furry and feathery critters in to the home for a cuddle or two.

Relatives and staff came along too, to join in with the fun bring-ing their fami-lies. The kids thought it was fantastic.

As the resi-dents enjoyed it so much they are visiting again on Saturday 18th April 2015 between 2pm and 4pm and everybody is welcome.

with his weird

and wonderful

instruments

such as his

Didgeridoo,

singing bowl and

saxophone. The residents very

much enjoyed the interesting

music and sounds that he

played.

We have enjoyed many music performances over the past few months from Traditional Choirs

to more unusual music.

The talented

Tony from

‘Music in Hospi-

tals’ visited us

to entertain us

The wonderful Emmaus school

choir joined us for a sing-a-long

we sang traditional Easter hymns

and they performed lovely read-

ings.

Staverton House

The Total Solar Eclipse

Music Performances

en-joyed having our nails done, bingo and hand massages!

We are very much looking

forward to the up and com-

ing events and getting

ready for our summer fete

which involves lots of par-

ticipation from the resi-

dents in terms of decorat-

ing, painting etc.

regular Karaoke Steve every other Monday, not forgetting Hannah Guy every Friday afternoon with her wonderful movement to music.

We have also been busy making daffodils, spring inspired art-work, singing, poems and our favourite A-Z boards! We have also

‘I spend two to four

hours, four times a

week at Staverton

House, visiting my

wife. I cannot praise

enough the staff for

their care towards

the residents, I see

little things that

matter so much.’

(a recommendation

made on

carehome.co.uk)

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Dave & Ewe Animal Farm

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We have enjoyed lots of activi-ties so far from gardening,

walks, feeding ducks, outings to the shops, going to church, to a drink at the

local Bear inn of a Tuesday afternoon. We have had some fantastic entertainers in from Tony playing his Didgeridoos, singing bowl and saxophone, Emmaus school choir to our

rare. Some people will only see one in a lifetime and others not at all.

Some residents watched the Eclipse outside but not looking directly at it—as this can be dangerous. Others watched it from the comfort of the lounge on the Television.

We were lucky enough to see a Total Solar Eclipse this year—they don't come around very often our last one was

11th August 1999. We more often have a ‘Partial’ Eclipse—a total Eclipse is very

Starting The Year Off….

Staff and residents at Longbridge Deverill House enjoyed a fan-tastic day of Hallow-een fun. Residents decorated Halloween Cupcakes and with the help of staff and adorned the house with fantastic decorations. This all culminated in a Halloween and Bonfire night themed quiz.

Longbridge Deverill House

Bonfire Night

Every year on 5th of November we celebrate Guy Fawkes night or more commonly known as Bonfire or Fireworks night we had a lovely display of fireworks in the garden, with resi-dents viewing from the lounge and dining room, followed by some toasted teacakes, tea and coffee. It was lovely to see everybosy enjoying a clas-sic English tradition. ‘My father has

found happiness

and contentment

at Longbridge

Deverill House that

I would never have

thought possible.

He loves the staff,

the food, and the

gardens’

(a recommendation

made on

carehome.co.uk)

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Halloween Fun

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Christmas Festivities

On the 19th December 2014 we had our Christmas ex-travaganza, with a theatre company coming in to per-form a festive production. Our residents loved singing along and even dancing with the theatre company and it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening for everyone.

On the 22nd of December 2014 we had our Christ-mas Open House and raffle. We had lots of fam-ily attend and raised some money for the residents activity fund. The Mince Pies were flowing, and nicely washed down with

lots of Tea and Coffee.

On the 25th December we had a visit from Santa and his little Dog helper (Rudolph was having a rest after a long night), to hand out all the pre-sents and

stockings. We had a full house on Christmas day with festive music and lots of family in at-tendance.

Sprucing Up Our Garden!

At Longbridge Deverill House we have been getting ready for Spring and Summer by planting sum-mer bulbs out in the garden.

The residents really enjoyed get-ting stuck in with planting the

Bulbs and Herbs to spruce up our Gar-den. They are all looking forward to seeing there bulbs grow and develop into beautiful flowers.

We have also added a sensory walkway

within the home, consisting of various fragrant herbs. We are

looking forward to expanding our sen-sory walkway with Lavender and some summer plants in the coming months.

To kick start the year

we had a new year

party with our regular

Steve Chudley! The

residents loved hear-

ing all the old songs,

and many were up and dancing

away.

We will

be hav-

ing a

themed

month

throughout the year this

year, to have a basis for

activities, meals and enter-

tainment. January was our

Morocco month, we en-

joyed looking at lovely pic-

tures and learning about their cul-

ture, as well as

enjoying a taste

of morocco with a

tasty Tagine and

Cous-Cous. We

also started a

memory café event,

which went down so

well we will be having

them once a fortnight.

Residents and family

members are free to

join us in the roof top

terrace for tea and reminiscence

with music, books and trinkets.

Please keep an eye out on our

Activities Board to see what

theme we have this month!

ing of “kung

hay fat choy”;

with means

“may you

prosper”. We

also all had a

go at flipping

the pancake on Shrove Tuesday,

which landed on the floor a few too

many times, so Paul cooked us all

some lovely fresh

ones for our sup-

per. We had a visit

from Colin, who

used to work for

Our theme for Febru-

ary was China, as we

celebrated Chinese

New Year on the 19th

& 20th. We had

a lovely Chi-

nese meal, with

fortune cookies

and Chinese

lanterns to

decorate the

dining rooms.

Some of the more adventurous of

us tried to use the chop sticks,

and learned the New Year greet-

Equality Care and his

band; they played and

sang lots of old timey

American songs, which

went down so well with

everyone. We all had a

little jig and a sing-a-long!

And not forgetting our

Valentines musical afternoon, where

we all crooned to our favourite love

songs.

Morrocco & The New Year

China

Christmas Festivities

Peter Pan, they

captured the

spirit of the pan-

tomime and it

was a brilliant

evening for all.

Frome

Dance

Com-

pany came and

sang carols after

school, with

children

whose ages

ranged from 5 to

teenagers! All

dressed up in their

Christmas

jumpers – lots

of fun! Our Christ-

mas open house

was very well at-

tended, we had a

gingerbread house compe-

tition and mince pies all

round! On Christmas Eve

we all sang carols on the

roof top terrace with family

and friends of the residents

and

staff.

On the

big day

itself we

had a

special

visit

from Mr and Mrs Claus,

who helped to hand out the

residents’ presents!

The last three months have flown by! We have had lots going on, so we thought we would start with a Christ-mas recap.

Big thanks to all those who

came and joined in, and

at-

tended

our

events,

your

support

is very

much

appreciated! We had the

wonderful memory lane

production company who

performed the story of

‘I have watched that

care given by both

carers and nurses,

with such gentleness

and thought, with a

smile and on many

occasions much

laughter. I can now

relax knowing my

mum is being very

well looked after.’

(a recommendation

made on

carehome.co.uk)


Longbridge Deverill Nursing Home

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Upcoming Events

Date Time Event Information

Wednesday 22nd April 2015 Alive Activities!

Saturday 25th April 2015 2.30pm—4.30pm Spring Sale & Raffle Volunteers and Donations wel-come. Bric-a-Brac, books, cakes

The Old Vicarage

Staverton House


Sunday 12th April 2015 7pm Easter Quiz Lamb Inn—Trowbridge

All Welcome

Thursday 23rd April 2015 All day St Georges Day Celebration Fish and Chips at Lunch, tradi-tional English Games and High

Saturday 9th May 2015 2pm-4pm Jumble & Cake Sale In the dining room

Saturday 11th July 2015 2pm-4pm Summer Fete Country Life Theme—Folk Band BBQ and lots of different Stalls!!

Longbridge Deverill House


Saturday 4th July 2015 TBC Summer Fete American Theme

Longbridge Deverill Nursing Home


ITALIAN THEME MONTH

Tuesday 12th May 2015 3pm Relatives Meeting Roof Top Terrace—Meet Maisie and Debbie with any questions, suggestions or general queries

Please keep an eye out for more upcoming events on the Activities Board in each home

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