Activities at Lochduhar Care Home

The residents at Lochduhar have enjoyed trips out for picnics in the park recently.

We have quite a few parks in Dumfries, so we have plenty to choose from. This time we chose to visit The Crichton Gardens, which is open to the public all year round. The Crichton offers a stunning location to take leisurely strolls and picnics. We sometimes see dog walkers and other people having walks and picnics too.

Our delicious picnic was made by our wonderful kitchen team and there was plenty to choose from.

We then took a short walk around some of the gardens, before heading home.

We recently had a visit from Moffat Ukulele group, this group is very popular with our residents.

They play all types of music and the residents like to sing along, tap their feet and some of us were

up and dancing.  We find that music lifts our spirits and makes us smile and also reminisce of the music we enjoy.

Sometimes the group bring their dog Ben and of course the residents enjoy seeing him.

We had some refreshments, of home made cakes made by our kitchen team and a glass of wine.

In a recent Residents meeting some of our residents requested that we have some evening walks, now the weather was starting to get better. The activities team got together with the residents and they chose dates and times to go. We are near the old railway track, which we call the cycle path and that takes us from our home round into a circle and back to the home. On the way we saw some lovely gardens, all neat and tidy with colourful flowers. We also saw a few dogs on the way, and they were excited to see us as we were them.

Our residents chose to have a trip out in the minibus to Dock Park.

We took a stroll along the river bank, looking at the river running and the birds, washing themselves and searching for fish. We looked at the blossom on the trees and the colourful wild flowers. We sat at a bench and opened our picnic, which was made by our kitchen team. We enjoyed some sausage rolls, sandwiches, crisps, cherry tomatoes and some tunnock tea cakes, we enjoyed some nice cold lemonade too. We then went for another walk on the other side of the park and into the café, where we enjoyed a delicious ice-cream.

We celebrated world cocktail day by having some live entertainment, with David on the keyboards. We got together and sang along to some memorable songs, smiling, clapping our hands and tapping our feet. We then enjoyed some Cocktails and Mock tails. We had Strawberry daiquiri, Pina colada and Mojito.

These delicious drinks were made by our kitchen team, our residents enjoyed the Cocktails and Mock tails and David who played the keyboard enjoyed a cool Mock tail too.

We have finally had some wonderful sunshine and we have been able to be out in our gardens. We had already planted some tomato and cucumber seeds in our greenhouses and were surprise to see how quickly they grew. So we replanted them into some grow bags, watered them and we can’t wait to see the end produce.

The Nursery children had recently potted some broad beans and asked the residents to look after them until their next visit. The residents and activity team got together and replanted the broad beans in the high beds, ready for the children to see on the next visit. The residents recently planted some potatoes and onions and they are shooting up well. We also have some strawberry plants that are doing well too.