April has been an unusual month indeed due to the Home being in lockdown due to COVID-19. However, we have manged to entertain ourselves by video calling our relatives, making our own entertainment and generally chatting with each other to keep our spirits lifted. Whilst our weekly hairdresser is unable to visit, both Mel and Debbie have been cutting and washing hair. Despite us both not being qualified hairdressers, we quickly picked up the skills needed to churn out some decent hairdos.
We have had lots of lovely donations from local shops of bread, tinned food and chocolate. We have also had donations of wine, bottled water, coca cola and other fizzy drinks from Matthew Clark Drink wholesalers.
The weather has been lovely of late and we are so glad to be able to sit in the garden to enjoy this beautiful sun.
We have many outside links to our local Primary School ‘Our lady of Hartley’ and ‘Bumblebees Children’s Nursery’ and we received lots of lovely hand written letters from the children. We shared these amongst our residents who were thrilled to read them.
We celebrated VE Day with a lovely 3 course lunch of Tomato soup, Rabbit Pie and meringue nests with strawberries. We sang and danced to music from years gone by and watched the VE Day celebrations on the TV with a glass of wine or sherry.