Activities at Drummond Grange Care Home

We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.

Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.

The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.

The staff and residents decided to challenge local children to a Easter egg hunt to find chocolate eggs that have been hiding in all kinds of different locations all-round the homes grounds. There was music and a wide range of family games, a chance to taste and judge our resident made Easter cake competition. There was also a fancy dress competition with a prize awarded for the best costume. 

Drummond Grange care home, in Lasswade, was full of animal mischief on last week when the Cool Creatures came to visit the home. Residents at Drummond Grange were pleasantly surprised to see animals such as Rabbits, Hedgehogs, tortoise, leopard Gecko and a Python having a visit to their home as Cool Creatures from Livingstone paid a visit.

Residents and staff all got involved with the spirit of Eurovision by having an ABBA sing a long on Thursday inght as part of their late night Thursdays. Colleagues got out the costumes and inflatable instruments to keep the party going and by special request, carer Roisin  ended the night by singing a firm Drummond Grange favourite - Al Dante Al Dante.

Our residents came together to enjoy an exciting virtual talk courtesy of the team at National Trust Talks Service.  The illustrated talk took us closer to one of Cliveden’s most famous families, the Astors. Our residents were able to discover what motivated William Waldorf Astor, America’s richest man, to purchase Cliveden in 1893 and how the estate became the centre of high society in the 1920 s and 30 s thanks to his son Waldorf and daughter in law Nancy Astor.

We had a lovely time joining Holly and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to the Collection, followed by a sensory exploratory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.  The Collection ranges from Old Master paintings to 18th century French furniture, arms and armour.   We all had a wonderful time and cannot wait to put our creative skills to a test and paint some landscapes in the upcoming days.