Bluebird Care Stroud and Cirencester brings VE Day to their customers during lockdown!

The team at Bluebird Care Stroud and Cirencester are bringing VE Day to their customers!

Bluebird Care Stroud and Cirencester brings VE Day to their customers during lockdown!

The team at Bluebird Care Stroud and Cirencester are bringing VE Day to their customers with vintage photos and shortbread biscuits! The team have created these small gifts for each of their customers, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

A 1940s tea party had been previously planned, however due to lockdown and social distancing this had to be cancelled in line with government guidelines, and of course for the safety of both customers and staff. Not wanting this important occasion to pass by, the team decided to create a small gift for each customer to commemorate the occasion. 

Bluebird Carers have been busy collecting the shortbread from the office ready to deliver to each customer on Friday the 8th of May. 

Attached to the shortbread is a poem written by Jack Whitfield from Bluebird Care South Gloucestershire:

The Gift of Service

The heroes of that greatest war,

The finest that we ever saw;

One and all they played their part,

In ambulance or landing craft. 

Heroes all around the world,

They battled till this peace unfurled. 

But though the common villain slain,

Their offspring now must fight again. 

For as we sit and sip our tea,

There lies a silent enemy,

Assaulted only by our scorn,

Until a new vaccine is born.

Those who readied at the beaches,

Carry on to ever teach us. 

Today, if we are as courageous,

It is their courage, through the ages. 

Their love for us could never stem,

So now we look to care for them. 

They paved the way for us to live,

Now back to them we seek to give. 

While others shield and lives are stalled,

Our carers carry on as called. 

Risking all to help them through,

Heroes all, those dressed in blue. 

Theirs could be no higher purpose;

Unto all, the gift of service. 

So smile at them, these angels rare,

For all of their Outstanding care

The care team will also be sharing the below video with their customers of the VE Day celebrations in Stroud on the 8th of May 1945:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt2f4UZLGGY

Everyone at Bluebird Care Stroud and Cirencester will do all they can to bring the celebrations to their customers on this special day.