Activities at Tixover House Care Home

We had a great time borrowing or decorating our own special Christmas jumpers and raise awareness for children in need all around the world.

It was a wonderful day, enjoyed by all bringing laughter, smiles and much needed fundraising for Save the Children UK. 

We hope our photos bring you just as many smiles as the jumpers brought us!

This weekend we have been busy getting into the Christmas spirit with arts and crafts, we have made wreaths, prepared our Christmas jumpers (lovingly modeled by Tony our Head of Maintenance) and continued to decorate the Home.

Today we celebrated the national day of Scotland and their patron Saint Andrew. We marked the day with a celebrations of the Scottish culture with traditional Scottish tablet, music, and drinks.

Our residents also learnt interesting facts about St Andrew, who surprisingly was not Scottish!  It was a lovely day, enjoyed by all even our "Bonnie" cat Charlie enjoyed herself

For the first time in seven decades, Tixover House in Rutland marked the King’s birthday on November 14th with a right Royal Tea Party attended by a very special guest.

As His Majesty’s representative within the county, it was an absolute pleasure for the home to welcome the Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, Dr Sarah Furness to join us and witness her plant a tree on our residents’ behalf in recognition of King Charles III birthday.

The chosen tree is a ‘Royal Medlar Apple’ whose fruits, once fermented are rich in potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and iron. The home has registered its planting as part of The Queen's Green Canopy with the location open to visitors.

Patisserie Chef Claudia Sleight and the homes’ hospitality team whipped up a tasty selection of freshly-made finger sandwiches, walnut and cherry scones, pastries and cakes for the occasion, all washed down with pots of tea.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, Dr Sarah Furness to the home to collect a handmade remembrance wreath lovingly created by our residents.

The wreath will be presented by Dr Furness at the service of Remembrance on 11th November in the grounds of Oakham Castle which will mark the day when the guns fell silent, and the armistice was declared.

Dr Sarah Furness meet with resident representatives; Heather and Renira who were honoured to present the homes’ commemorative wreath. Working together with the homes Activities Lead, Nicola Blevins-Twose our residents designed, and created their wreath with felt poppies to show respect for the diversity of those who died in the First World War and the conflicts that followed.

Our circle of ‘Remembrance and Hope’ represents the most famous Red poppy inspired by the fields of poppies that grew where many of the battles were fought.

The Black Poppy commemorating the contributions of black, African and Caribbean communities to the war effort of service people and civilians. The Purple poppy remembers animals that have been victims of war. Animals like horses, dogs and pigeons were often drafted into the war effort and the White poppy that focuses on achieving peace and challenges the way we look at war.

Home manager, Ive Alexander said: “We have many residents and staff with personal ties to the military and many who have experienced conflict either at home or abroad, it is important to us to mark November 11th and remember the contribution of everyone involved in the World Wars and in subsequent conflicts.

It was wonderful to have His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, Dr Sarah Furness visit the home today to collect our homemade remembrance wreath, having it form part of the many commemorative tributes on display at the forthcoming Rutland community remembrance events is a great honour.

To all those who have fallen, it’s with grateful thanks for your sacrifices ‘We’ the residents and staff of Tixover House Care Home will never forget those who have lost their lives to save others.

Remember, remember the 5th of November!

Our residents enjoyed an evening full of colour and storytelling. They loved bending the neon bars to create their own bangles and necklaces and seeing them glow in the dark, creating firework art using chalks and watching a firework display to music on the lounge and cinema TV.

We chatted about the Gunpowder plot as we made a ‘Penny for the Guy’ before settling down to a traditional bonfire supper of warming spiced squash soup, hotdogs and parkin accompanied by mulled cider or hot chocolate with marshmallows.