Activities at Cadbury Hall Care Home

This month the garden centre has been  the most requested place to visit, this week we had so many requests we went twice! The ladies went 1st and had a blast. Mollie’s daughter met us there which was lovely, we love when family can join us. We loved looking at the cakes in the farm shop area and the beautiful cards and books. Everyone had a lovely time and we came home with a few goodies. Margaret said that she really enjoyed herself and can’t wait for the next trip.

Here at Cadbury we are all for establishing friendships between our residents. We have introduced Margaret to Anne and they have been inseparable ever since. Both women are widowed and are local so have lots in common, they’ve really hit it off. They both enjoy gardening so have come out to the local garden centre with us, choosing plants for the patio pots and helping to plant them when we got home. Anne has said that to find a friend whilst she’s here has really helped her feel at home and more settled.

We have been so excited to see the sunshine return after a really wet and gloomy start to the year. Our maintenance has cut the grass, tidied the garden and has even got the hanging baskets ready for us to plant. We started off with a trip to the local garden centre to buy some plants, we might have stopped at the café for a coffee, it would have been rude not too. Anne helped picked out the flowers for the baskets and then Norah joined her to help plant them. We had a lovely afternoon getting the garden ready for summer.

We have been eager to get out into the garden all year but the weather has not allowed us to do so. Safe to say as soon as we saw a glimpse of sun we were straight in the mini bus and on our way to the local garden centre.

We had a browse and found some amazing items for our garden, it was very hard to pick out a selection of flowers when there were so many to choose from! Molly found some wonderful hanging baskets and Anne picked out some beautiful flowers. 

After we had exhausted ourselves with shopping we stopped and grabbed a well deserved coffee followed by some delightful sweet treats. Now all that is left to do is plant our new additions and summer can finally begin!

We love hopping on our mini bus to go out and about in our local community, today we went to our local Waitrose to buy some Easter treats and have a coffee at the café. Peter decided he wanted to buy some magazines and chocolates for when his wife next visited and Mollie wanted to buy lots of Easter eggs for her family, we had an enjoyable time and were surprised by how busy the little town was. We were back in time for lunch and had a lovely morning, sometimes it’s the ordinary things we miss.

We decided that a visit to a sister home was in order, we travelled through Cheddar to get to Wells, admiring the scenery as we went. We had such a warm welcome from everyone at Crandon. We were especially delighted to meet Barbara who it would transpire worked at the same hospital around the same time as our Paul. The two were soon regaling in stories from the past and having a wonderful time. We cannot wait to host them in return and have already started planning for summer picnics.