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.