Activities at Lochduhar Care Home

We recently held a baking club, with Head Chef Evelyn, and the Activities team, Sally and Maggie.

Residents chose to have the baking club in the dining room. 

Chef Evelyn asked the residents what they would like to drink, as she had made some gingerbread mulled wine and some soft juice. Some of the residents who had the gingerbread mulled wine said it was delicious! 

Chef Evelyn then asked what the ingredients are that go into a Christmas cake and residents took turns in saying their answers. 

They then set to work mixing and stirring the ingredients for the Christmas Cake. One resident asked how long it would take to cook and Evelyn said about four and a half hours! 

We then all had a coffee, cake and a chat, reminiscing of when we were younger and how our own mothers use to make Christmas Cakes.

Here at Lochduhar, we enjoyed an afternoon of live entertainment from Gary, an amazing vocalist. 

Gary is known to all of our residents, as he generally performs at some of our parties for us. He sings a selection of songs, which suit all our residents and we all like to sing along and sometimes we get up to dance. 

One of the residenst said the music is catchy and has a lovely beat.

Gary walks around to see the residents while he is singing, some residents join in with him as he passes them the microphone, to offer them to sing with him and lots of our residents love to join in!

We can't wait for the next time Gary performs at our home, we're already warming up our vocals!

Here at Lochduhar, we have a weekly session with Let’s Get Sporty. They are a community group that hold classes for all ages.

Our residents look forward to see them every week, for some gentle chair based exercises. 

The residents start and finish with a warm up and warm down every time.

This week, they used tennis rackets, some hoops and some bean bags, this exercise helps with the upper body. 

They then used small balls and football and this helps with the lower body. 

After each session, we always have some refreshments and we talk about how we think our session went.

We can't wait to get sporty next week!
 

Every week here at Lochduhar, the residents look forward to a visit from Northwest Campus S3 Students.

This week, the students brought some of their games with them to share and play with the residents.

Our residents then got together with the students and set up the games. They had cards, a very large snakes and ladders and some dominoes. 

The residents enjoyed all of the games and often getting a six on the dice for Snakes and Ladders!

One of our residents was pleased that she had won a game of dominoes and was giggling, which we all found hilarious!

We are all certainly looking forward to their next visit.
 

We have recently had some lovely weather the sun has been shinning!

We took the opportunity to visit our gardens, with all communities.

We donned our summer hats, poured some juice enjoyed an ice-cream

and had a good blether. We spoke of our past holidays in the sun and watched the aeroplanes. We 

 listened to the birds singing and took a look at our flower beds.

The resident decided to have an afternoon tidying the gardens.

We took down our greenhouse and boxed it away for next year.

We weeded the flower and vegetable beds. Our onions are coming along nicely.

Our green beans and potatoes have been harvested and am told they were very tasty.

Our tomatoes are still going and we hope to have some sunshine so they can finish ripening.

The residents have enjoyed their gardening this year and are looking forward to planting

some different vegetables next year, marrows, courgettes and carrots were spoken about.