‘Happy 100th, Mum’: partying through a care home window

As families were finally allowed to visit care homes, one son drove 350 miles, camping in a car park, for his mother’s birthday
On Wednesday, the government released guidance for visiting elderly relatives in care homes. Thanks, Matt Hancock, bit of a shame about the timing though, as my care home-dwelling mum had turned 100 just a few days before. But this is not a tale of embittered, enforced absence. We’d got on top of this months ago when we started planning my birthday visit. An