Monthly Archives: November 2014

Hurrah!  we are very happy to see, we have now had over 3000 hits for our Forbury Times blog!  This is great to see and your contributions and comments are really valuable and are read out to the residents. So please continue to follow the blog and tell your friends and family members, and keep up with all the news, social events and art projects.  Many thanks from everyone at The Forbury.

Today we honoured the residents of The Forbury and all the valuable contributions they made during the Second World War.

Residents painted emblems of some of the armed forces that they served with. Clockwise from the top:
The RAF – David Cox
The Merchant Navy – Graham Jones
The Women’s Land Army – Lucy Clewer and Anne Harris
The Armed Forces – Ron carried out his National Service in Germany after the war
( Kath Bufton painted the emblem)
The Burma Star – Betty’s huband served in Burma.

We would like to thank About Face Theatre Company very much for staging their play for us.  Joan said she will come again next time!  Hilda A-S, Kath C and Rita P worked as a team to make apple pies and apple cake.  Hilda’s and Rita’s pastry was really light and crumbly.  We took the pies and the cake to share the next day, to a performance of “My Apple Dumpling Girl”.  This was performed for us at The Forbury Chapel, next door to The Forbury.

The play was enjoyed by several residents.  It was a love story set in a pork pie factory. The couple who eventually found love were able to escape, saving their pet pig! They moved in together next to an apple orchard, with the prospect of baking apple rather than pork pies.

This year we are again looking forward to going out to The Duke’s Head (Wetherspoons) in Corn Square, Leominster, for our Christmas meals.  Wetherspoons have made these occasions very enjoyable for us in recent years.

    We have tables booked as follows: