Activities at Fordmill Care Home

Staff and residents at Barchester Fordmill Care Home in Montrose celebrated one of their own in style. Lisa Anderson, who captains Montrose Women’s FC, together with Eilidh Reid brought in the winning League Cup to show and share with the residents and staff. The residents at Fordmill enjoyed posing with Lisa and Eilidh, taking turns holding the coveted trophy with pride.

General Manager Aileen Alberts at Fordmill Care Home said: “We are very proud of Lisa’s achievements, she’s a credit to our home.”  Ron Watson, one of the residents at Fordmill has followed Lisa’s football journey said she’s done really well, worked very hard and he’s so proud of her. It has been a lovely day.’

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.

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.

Residents at Fordmill Care Home in Montrose welcome Cassie a Collie who’s definitely the cutest 5 months old puppy they’ve ever seen! She’s been an absolute ray of sunshine for the Fordmill family ever since she joined us at the end of January. We have made sure to incorporate her and daily exercise with the residents as well as having her roam free during events making sure everyone can enjoy her youthful energy.

Kara the operational trainer has been trying to show Cassie how to act in the Home but it looks like chewing through her lead and making everyone play with her is a personality trait. It seems like everyone is absolutely smitten with her, not that we could blame them. She is somewhat bossy when she doesn’t get her way and always wants to make sure she’s the centre of attention.

Rhyming couplets were the order of the day at Fordmill care home in Montrose where residents were keen to get involved in World Poetry Day.

UNESCO says: Poetry reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals, everywhere in the world, share the same questions and feelings. Poetry is the mainstay of oral tradition and, over centuries, can communicate the innermost values of diverse cultures.

Staff and residents at Fordmill care home decided to host an afternoon party to celebrate World Poetry day. Residents enjoyed the journey back in time to an Old Montrose through the book ‘Bonnie Montrose – Poems and Songs’ by Montrose author William F. McHardy.