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Bristol Post
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Tristan Cork

The girl who made 60 Mother's Day cards for the residents of the care home next door

The residents of a care home in Bristol were guaranteed to receive a card on Mother's Day - after a girl who lives around the corner spent two days making them one each.

After seeing all the dire news about coronavirus, and realising that the residents of the Avon Valley care home that backs onto her house in Kingswood would be worried and kept in, Sunny Rowe decided to do something nice.

The nine-year-old used her spare time from her final lessons at Kings Oak Academy to make home-made cards for them all - each one with a different picture on the front, and the same smiley message inside.

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The cards all read: "Stay safe, be happy, love Sunny".

(Gemma Lovell/Avon Valley Care Home)

The aptly-named nine-year-old had the initial idea, but wasn't daunted by realising the size of the task in hand, explained her mum Gemma.

"She's always looking out for other people, and writing letters and cards," said her proud mum.

"Most kids will ask for money for a chocolate bar, she asks for money for envelopes!

"It was on Wednesday that she decided she wanted to do something. She'd seen all the stuff that's going on, and thought what she could do. The care home is just round the back of our house, so she thought immediately of the people there.

"She was really brave and phoned them up herself and asked them how many people they had living there. The lady on the reception was very nice and very pleased when Sunny told her what she wanted to do.

(Gemma Lovell/Avon Valley Care Home)

"Then they phoned back a minute later and said it wasn't 55, it was 60. I was thinking that was an awful lot, but Sunny just looked at me and said: 'mum, I've got this.'"

So Sunny sat down on Wednesday night and got cracking, and by Thursday afternoon had completed it - 60 individual cards bringing a bit of Sunny sunshine to the residents.

She took them round in a little basket and delivered them.

"The care home obviously saved them for Mother's Day, which was lovely, and we had lots of pictures come back of the ladies there with their cards, it was lovely to see," added Gemma.

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