Derek Powell Christmas Dinner

I went to the Northwich memorial hall for Christmas dinner on Friday 16th December 2011, I had turkey, roast potatoes, carrots, gravy, cranberry sauce and sprouts but I didn't eat the sprouts because there horrible. I had trifle for dessert.

Jason Chirstmas

I'm going to forward to Christmas dinner with Martin and David at home, I hoping to get new aeroplane book for Christmas. This is my last blog until the new year so I hope all have a great Christmas and New Year!!!

Thank you Debbie!

Debbie Everett from Life Technologies in Warrington won our Santa's sack draw last Friday with a prize fund of £117.50
Debbie generously donated her prize back to us so we raised nearly £200 for the community cafe which is going really well watch this space and Thank You Debbie!!

Barry At The Airport

I WENT TO MANCHESTER AIRPORT ON SATURDAY 17TH OF DECEMBER 2011 WHEN I WAS THERE I BOUGHT TWO PLANES ONE WAS A AIRBUS AND THE OTHER WAS JUMBO JET.
I HAD A CHEESE AND ONION SANDWICH, SALAD, CRISPS AND DIET COKE FOR LUNCH
I SAW THE PLANES LANDING AND TAKING OFF AND I ALSO SAW THE NEW FLY EMIRATES A380
I WENT WITH MY COMPANION CALLED DEAN.

Barry's Parcelforce Truck!

I am looking forward to Christmas. I am going to my sister Jane for Christmas on Friday 23rd.
Parcelforce will be busy this Christmas. They are a good firm. For Christmas dinner, I will be having roast turkey, Christmas pudding and I will be unwrapping presents. On Saturday the 17th of December, my Eddie Stobart new truck from Corgi will be arriving.

Dereks Favourite Chocolate Pizza

If you are looking for a unique and unusual present this Christmas, A chocolate
Pizza might be your answer! Brimming with festive fun all chocolate lovers
would be delighted to hear that the chocolate pizza’s are available in 7inches
and a whooping 10inches! All with edible Christmas trees and Santa’s!

Dereks Christmas Shopping Guide

Derek Powell recently visited Northwich town to buy some Chritmas gifts.
Here is his guide to the best shops.
WH Smiths is great for books, cards and wrapping paper.
Poundstretcher is where you'll find some good bargains.
Clintons is good if you are looking for a special card.

Have a great Chritmas!

Hello everybody!
We are very sorry that we haven't been able to post for a while.
Technical difficulties prevented us. But we are back now.
We are looking forward to letting you all know whats happening around our centres. We have also been busy working on The Chritmas Newsletter will be availble to read very soon.

Barry's Trip to Leyland!

On 3rd of December, I will be going to Leyland truck museum with my companion to look at old trucks. I am really looking forward to this trip! Last time I have been to Leyland museum with my companion Dean was absolutely fantastic! This week I have seen an eddiestobart truck , I waved at the driver and he waved back at me! For Chrismas I am looking forward to getting an eddistorbart model truck for my present. Iam also fascinated by the new Volvo FH16.

'Strictly Come Dancing' Special Christmas Edition

If you are after a good family fun show, then make note of the Elves and The Shoemaker being performed by Stuff & Nonsense Theatre Company. Its got everything - stunning puppetry, music and lots of suprisess - and is guaranteed to put a smile on anyone's face!

Jean's Birthday

On Monday was my 58th birthday. I had a party on sunday in my house. My friends and family came and we danced and ate cakes . I got lots of presents, my favourite present was my new CD player and new CD's. I also got new pyjamas. I had a great birthday!

Fantastic Friday Football and fun Games

We were playing football on Friday morning until 1.00 oclock. Some people from the old fire station and Winsford came to play with us. We had different games, packed lunch and biscuits. The weather was fine for this time of the year although it was a bit windy and breezy. We had exercises, jogging on the spot, had our photos taken. Different people came to take part. It was a good day, we had a lovely time. At the end of the day we were given medals and programs.

Karen's blog post

On Saturday I’m going out for bonfire night at verdin in park to watch the fire works display.
The only downside to this evening is that all the animals will be scared
Some kids are dangeross with fire works as they mess with them and sometime put them in letter boxes. In the morning some growns up throw fireworks in letterboxes too which is bad.
The police and fire bridgade work very hard to make sure that everyone is safe and has a fun bonfire night.
On the plus side fire works are beautiful and make colourful partners in the sky at night and they have food there, hotdogs and burgers too.

Neil's News

I have been looking forward to coming back to Firdale and seeing all my friends again. I am feeling much better now.
I was glad they sent me the latest news letter so I could read what everyone had been doing.

NICOLA'S BLOG

WE ARE HAVING PEOPLE FROM MEADOW BANK LODGE AND THEY WILL BE TALKING TO US ABOUT WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOINGAND WE WILL BE MAKING TEA COFFEE FOR THEM. I HAVE BEEN MAKING BLUEBERRY MUFFINS THIS MORNING AND THEY TASTE LOVELY. TONIGHT I AM GOING OUT WITH MY MUM TO SEE SOUTH PACIFIC IN MANCHESTER ON A COACH, THIS WILL BE GOOD. ON SUNDAY WE WENT TO THE PUB TO HAVE A MEAL AND I HAD STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING.

Jason's News

I WENT TO SANDBATCH DISCO WHICH IS HELD ON TUESDAY EVENINGS IT COSTS 2.50 TO ENTER. I LOVE LISTENING TO DIFFERENT MUSIC THAT THEY PLAY MY FAVOURITE MUSIC IS ROBSON + JEROME. I ALSO HAVE THEIRE CD AND MANY MORE OF MY FAVOURITE ARTISTS.

True Romance!

Hazel Clarke says: "Trevor and I got engaged on Friday night at the ChesterWay pub - we had a few friends over - Nigel, Richard, Kevin and Anthony, Becky, Carol and my sisters Jean and Ruth and my niece Becca too. We had drinks and Trevor gave me my ring, I gave him a ring as well, and I went bright red as a beetroot! We're going to enjoy being engaged and not worry about planning a wedding just yet! Everyone has admired my ring, which is gold with diamonds - a girl's best friend don't you know!"

News News News from Vale Royal CDS...

Stacey has been on holiday this week to Turkey, we all hope she's having a fab time !!

Kaushik is looking forward to seeing his sister tonight (wed 26th october), She's coming up from London.

The guys from VRCDS are all readyfor the halloween festivities.

Eric and everyone say they have enjoyed the masquerade ball.

And everyone is doing well using the public buses except when they breakdown !!!!

Neils News from the Movies

Neil Dyson would like to recommend going to see Cowboys and Aliens at the cinema soon - its got Harrison Ford (who played Indiana Jones) and Daniel Craig (who played James Bond in Casino Royale). Everyone should go and see it as it's meant to be a good film, I'll be going with Susie hopefully soon.

Emma's News

Emma Calvert won these fantastic medals at the National Games in Cardiff for the Special Olympics. She won a gold and silver for her individual breast stroke events and a silver in the relay. She is pictured here at the Old Fire Station with her friends Peter and Wendy who are very proud of her too.

Susie's News

Susie Blowers had a lovely weekend at her mum's house in Cuddington where she helped out in the garden with the weeding and also helped cook a tasty tea of chilli and rice then fruit salad and cream and she also went to Helen's house for tea too - a very good weekend all in all!

Jamie's News

Jamie Walker has done really well on the Doctor Who section of our quiz this morning. Onoe of the questions was name as many monsters from Doctor Who as you can and Jamie got loads - these are his favourites.

Meadowbank Lodge joining Chatterbox5

Yesterday was a very busy day as we also had a visit from David, Stacey, Kaushik and Martin with Ant from Meadowbank Lodge - they're going to be joining us every week from now on so we'll get them doing some hard work next week blogging - watch this space!

Friends from Chester

Yesterday we had a visit from some people from three centres in Chester - they came and had lunch with our Chatterbox 5 team and had a look at our new IT room and what we get up to.

It was lovely to meet John and Baden from the Coronation Centre, Janet and Dan from Canal Street and Graham and Jo from the Mulbery Centre. We're going to log on and have a look at Janet's Blog when we next meet up, and the others are going to get Blogs going too so we'll all be able to keep in touch. It was lovely to meet you guys, thanks for coming to see us - sorry it was a bit hectic here as usual!

Our friends from Dane Walk

We've had some visits recently from our friends at Dane Walk when they came over to give us all their news and gossip for our Blog. Karen Morrey from our Chatterbox 5 team is pictured with Vanessa Pennington who told us she'd been busy going shopping and enjoying cakes from the baking session, especially chocolate sponge with chocolate sauce! She also likes reading magazines and going out with her companion on Saturdays, and going to see her brother Carl every Sunday.

Michelle Sayle has been enjoying the TacPac tactile session and the dance session on Wednesdays run by Cheshire Dance too.

Mary Cuthell has really enjoyed eating out at the Woodpecker recently and health and beauty sessions at the Mid Cheshire College.

Dennis Hurst has been enjoying the Tuesday sports session at the Lifestyle Centre in Winsford and has just had a new Dr Who book and some colouring books for his birthday. They were playing Tig Rugby at the Lifestyle Centre today and Ellen fell over but was ok! People from Meadowbank Lodge and the Old Fire Station and Firdale go too so its lovely for everyone to catch up with friends.

Joanne Cornwell has been enjoying baking and tasting cakes with Sandra and Karen and has also been making Pumpkin Heads in the art session with Theresa.

Karen Platt enjoyed going to the Masquerade Ball and had a dance with Chatterbox 5's Jason Cross.

All in all everyone from Dane Walk sounds like they're having a busy time of it and they're not letting a second round of broken windows get them down.....

Thanks for coming to see us, and thanks for all your news......

It was lovely to see

Baking a Difference

Gill Hubball and her group have once again been baking fantastic cakes, this time for the Bake a Difference charity and they've made over £20. They made a fantastic victoria sponge, coffee and walnut fairy cakes, chocolate muffins and more - they tasted as good as they smelled. The group is also doing really well with their NVQ too and we're really proud of them as wll as grateful for the lovely cakes.

Masquerade Ball

Our Masquerade Ball last Friday 7th October went really well - everyone enjoyed it and it was a really busy night with people from lots of different day services joining in. Tickets were just £3.50 each and that included nibbles like crisps and popcorn and lots of spot prizes. There were also prizes for best dancers and masks. Chatterbox 5's Ricky Foster won one of the best dancer prizes too, well done Ricky! Lotsa of people had made a big effort with costumes and masks and it was a very colourful night. Jill is pictured above on the left in green with Vera Lastoweckyi and on right are Julie Bland in the black and pink and Karen Morrey in black and silver. Karen won a a prize of a wind up radio for best mask.

Jill Duffy who organised the ball would like to say a big thank you to everyone that donated prizes and money and supported the event with their time - it was a fantastic night and raised over £300 for our comfort funds.

We'd like to say a big thank you to Jill for organising such a brilliant night out for everyone - we're looking forward to the next one!

Many thanks to Karen Morrey who interviewed Jill Duffy.