Activities at Lochduhar Care Home

We took some of our residents from Lochduhar to The Usual Place in Dumfries for their Christmas Lunch.

The Usual Place is a popular cafe with some of our residents. Everything is freshly prepared, cooked
and baked in their kitchen. 

We all chose a two course meal, prawn cocktail for starters and a traditional Christmas lunch. We had crackers too and wore our hats as we jokes, with lots of laughing! 

We had prosecco and Nosecco and raised a glass to each other and wished everyone a very Merry Christmas. We reminisced on what we cooked for our own Christmas dinners too!

We recently had a visit from Laurieknow Nursery, our residents really look forward to seeing the children.

We played the bucket on ball game, to see who could get the balls in the bucket. This was a great hit with
the children and the residents, competing and having fun.

We did some aqua painting together. The residents enjoyed doing this with the children and are looking forward to seeing them again soon.

We think next time they visit we will be doing Christmas arts and crafts.

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.