Activities at The Cedars Bourne Care Home

Staff and residents at The Cedars Care Home in Bourne celebrated Bonfire Night with a bang this November 5th when they wrapped up warm watch a fantastic firework display and enjoy lots of seasonal treats washed down with some creamy hot chocolate. 

Bonfire Night commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot when 14 individuals tried to blow up the House of Lords during the state opening of Parliament on November 5th 1605. We started the evening by enjoying traditional bonfire night treats, including jacket potatoes, hot dogs, burgers, and parkin beautifully prepared by home chef Julie Gelsthorpe; served picnic style in the lounge, before watching the beautiful low level, low noise display that our residents and their visitors love every year.  

The Cedars Care Home in Bourne recently presented The Carer Sitter Service with a cheque for £1000.  

Staff from Central COOP funeral care and The Cedars Care Home in Bourne, along with staff and friends of The Cedars Care Home, took part in a ten mile walk around Bourne and the surrounding villages on in September to raise money for The Carers Sitter Service, a local charity that provides free respite support and home sitting for people who are restricted because of the 24-hour care they are providing for dependent relatives and friends. 

We love Baytree Garden Centre, and their seasonal displays are stunning! Marjorie, Audrey and Rose had a lovely afternoon exploring all of the different scents and sights of the autumn. 

We have come away with some wonderful ideas to decorate the home. Marjorie said "I think this is the most lovely shop I've ever seen'.

Our monthly Sewing Club has been working hard on ‘The Cedars Tapestry’, a beautiful cross-stitch display featuring the wonderful building we live in, some of the people we share our day with, the mini bus we travel around in, beautiful historic Bourne church and our friendly visiting cat. We've still a way to go but were marching on, and every fortnight we meet to work on it together. It’s wonderful to see such comradery and dedication to this project, which is being added to by staff and residents in a collaboration of fun and skills. 

We had a wonderful treat this month as Gladys’s exceptionally talented daughter volunteered to perform a violin concert for our residents. 

We hummed and danced along to hits such as 'My Favourite Things', 'I Dreamed a Dream' and 'Riverdance'. It was an amazing afternoon: Beryl commented that it was 'wonderful music- Lovely, just lovely'; and our Duke of Edinburgh volunteer Charles said that it was wonderful- he had never heard professional violin played before. 

We are so grateful to Sarah for treating us to such a memorable afternoon.

Music loving care home residents in Cedars Bourne said “yeehaw” as they celebrated with a wild west themed hoedown recently. A number of residents at Cedars Bourne embraced the on-going fashion trend of ‘cowboy-core’ as they dressed in their best bandanas and cowboy hats, saddling up to give a ‘right friendly howdy’ by hosting a hoedown.

Residents, their relatives, staff and volunteers all got involved with the spirit of the day donning check shirts and cowboy hats, turning the reception into a staging post and lounge into a saloon bar, fit for the country and western beauty performance.