Activities at Four Hills Care Home

Rain doesn’t stop afternoon tea in the garden!  Myra and her daughter enjoyed sipping their tea....well mostly rain water! Our residents love to spend time outdoors for a breath of fresh air and enjoying activities. The simple things are often the best!

This week Four Hills couple Jane and Marcus celebrated their Wedding Anniversary. They both gave one another anniversary cards. Jane also received beautiful flowers from Marcus. Thomas their son also sent in beautiful flowers for them both.

Jane and Marcus said they are still very much in love now as the day they married aww! Congratulations to you both from all at Four Hills.

Four Hills care home, in Glasgow, has thrown a summer themed cocktail party to celebrate 30 years of serving the local community.  Staff, residents and guests commemorated this special occasion with live music, cocktails, mocktails, cakes and delicious nibbles.  Four Hills has built up excellent reputations within its local communities. The home regularly holds events and activities for its residents and surrounding neighbours. Four Hills was built 30 years ago on the site of an old ironworks in the middle of a thriving local community.

Our residents thoroughly enjoyed a trip to our local Riding for the Disabled stables, we were introduced to all the horses and told what their routines were, we even had the opportunity to get them out and give them a groom.

All the residents found being around the horses to be very therapeutic and made them all happy, even the residents who were apprehensive to touch them at first were soon wanting to touch and groom them.

Mary had the best time ever as being around the horses and grooming them reminded her of her childhood pony trekking with her family and it’s how she meet her husband.

Another lovely outing for the residents of Four Hills this time to Tollcross park, where we enjoyed a lovely trip to their petting zoo, our favourite animals were the lamas and all the chickens.

But the point of our trip there was so Elizabeth could once again see their world famous Rose garden which she enjoyed going to regularly when visiting her family, she thought she would never manage over to see it again but here at Four Hills we like to make our residents wishes a reality for them.

Elizabeth was delighted with our day out even if not roses had flowered yet.

Residents at Four Hills enjoying a lovely canal boat trip down the Clyde from Kirkintilloch to Bishopbriggs thanks to our friends at the Seagull trust who run the tours.

We enjoyed a beautiful sunny day taking in the sights and the wildlife on the canal, we even saw a few canoeists along the way and enjoyed a lovely picnic as we sat out on the deck.

This was especially poignant for our Tommy who used to walk these canal paths every week when he was younger and fitter so he had lots to tell us about the history of the area and local landmarks.

Tommy and his family were delighted that he could take part in this trip and he has been talking about it for weeks since we have been back.